From London Daily Telegraph 31/7/06: I didn't realise the Flat Earth Society had a branch down under. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../wsewage31.xml It couldn't be any worse than the current Toowoomba water. I visit there 2-3 times a year and it doesn't make a good cup of tea and I get a nasty "rash" after a couple of showers.
Get used to the idea, it may be a necessity in the future.
One serious proposal for South East England is to use the output from sewage treatment works to replenish the depleted (through over abstraction for drinking water purposes) chalk aquifers. Technically there is no problem. The output from a sewage treatment works has to be the same as the receiving water course (paradoxically, discharging pure water would dilute the nutrients that support aquatic life). While it may not be a good idea to drink directly from any river, generally the worse that will happen from any UK river is an unpleasantly extended session on the netty. In the same way, a modern water treatment works with membrane filtration could theoretically purify water from any source. Taken together it is feasible and it really is merely an extension of the exisitng process where treated sewage discharge from upstream will mingle with the river water abstracted downstream for drinking water purposes. The problem is psychological ... with aquifer storage and recovery in SE England there is a more overt link which will involve pursuading Londoners to drink all the piss from Oxford.
Residents of Windhoek have been drinking the recycled stuff for donkey's years. All the real water there is used to brew 'reinheidsgebot' (sp?) beer, which is then recycled by human kidneys, and ends up being recycled yet again, for use by residents. So recycling is big in Namibia. So is cycling, although not as popular as beer drinking. Reminds me, must toddle off to see how my solar-powerd brewing device is working today.
I thought that London water had passed through human bodies seven times already.
The local recycled water is more pure than 'source' water from reservoirs.
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This is the Australian state that doesn't change to daylight saving time during summer - legend has it that some people were concerned that their curtains would fade more if they had daylight saving time.
This is the Australian state that doesn't change to daylight saving time during summer - legend has it that some people were concerned that their curtains would fade more if they had daylight saving time.
No ....the reason was that several dictators ago one Bjelke Jo (Dont you worry about that)Pedersen decreed the sun shone out his arse and he wasnt getting up an hour earlier for anyone.
very very good..we need to ban UTE's first
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