At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the shape of things to come
I’d love to see these suits drinking a piss and shit cocktail.
So, if you went up and handed him a glass of sewage water, he’d drink it?
Like the American (or was it Aussie) politician who said he’d drink water run off from fracking, only to duck out of it when a member of the public served him exactly that at a Q+A session.
Reclaimed/recycled water is perfectly safe and in use in a number of major cities, including Los Angeles. Calling it “drinking sewer water” is disingenuous bullshit.
Now that’s a very misleading article title. Almost like it’s the BBC trying to make clickbait titles despite having no need too do so what with being funded by the public and all; though honest journalism is in rare supply nowdays.
The actual article itself is solely about treated water and water recycling methods rather than just dumping sewage water. Something common in countries that have limited access to water.
Now yes one could make arguments as to would there be a regulatory body that cares to actually make sure said treatment is actually taking place and to the correct levels; as ours clearly isnt up to the task. The article itself doesnt approach this nuance and instead just comes out with click bait titles misconstruing everything being discussed in the article
he can go first
will be like the indian politician who drank from the ganges
They should drink it then
Like that bloke saying roundup was safe to drink and then saying “no, I’m not an idiot” when the interviewer offered him some.
Well i suppose those that pop their clogs from cholera won’t be a ‘drain’ on the country’s finances anymore. A solid, practical Tory policy if i ever saw one.
Right, so first it’s eat bugs and now it’s drink sewage too? This meal ain’t seeming very appetising to me. Oh well, guess I will eat nothing and be happy.
“It’s only cholera you snowflakes!”
I have no issue with the concept of drinking water from treated sewage. What I do have issue with is this government’s ability to ensure the sewage stays out of said water. Given the headlines over recent days on sewage being discharged onto beaches I’m not exactly filled with confidence.
Hey you’re swimming in it at the beach so how bad can it be?
Force these foreign massive profit making companies to heavily invest and fix this shit (while creating jobs)
Surely every drop we drink in the UK has been through at least one human or animal by now? Maybe not the ice cap stuff though, that’s probably got dinosaur urine in it though?
I don’t see what the problem is, although I am chuckling at the red dwarf sketch about “urine recyc”. “Are you sure sir? It’s beginning to taste like Dutch lager”
The water companies can bearly stop leaking shit water into rivers and the sea. Like fuck should we be trusting them not to leak it into our drinking supply.
I assumed that was the case?… The BBC calling it “Sewage water” probably isn’t helping.
> By 2030, toilet water could be deposited into rivers near treatment plants so it can be collected and processed as drinking water.
Aren’t they already doing that? Do we really need to do that on a mass scale?
What are they trying to prepare us for exactly with all these articles?
I assumed the UK already used water from sewerage. I’m from Bristol & I remember a saying that our water had been through the bellies of 7 Welsh people before we got to drink it.
What’s more worrying, is that untreated sewerage are routinely discharged into rivers & the sea & our Government are happy about that.
Isn’t this is more or less how the water cycle works anyway? We’re all drinking dinosaur pee essentially.
So long as it’s treated and safe.
Wouldn’t you know it, the conservatives are turning our country into a litral shithole.
This is an incredibly irresponsible title. Recycled wastewater is a common way to provide drinking water in many countries.
It’s not “sewage water”, it’s drinking water safely made from wastewater that originally included sewage. Our current drinking water is safely made from water from rivers which can also contain sewage, pollution fron agricultural run off etc.
There’s no magic clean water that just exists. All of drinking water involves taking something which can be dirty and treating it to make it safe
I assumed this was already the case in London but apparently not. You wouldn’t know it from how awful the water here tastes, though.
Well it’s what we’ve been drinking anyway so crack on mcduff
Knowing how our British private utilities run, we’ll have straight up shit coming out of the tap in no time!
TBF I thought we already were. Treated water is perfectly safe.
Welcome to Tory Britain where we are literally drinking piss and shit.
The first time I ever started buying bottles of drinking water that was not for camping or for our earthquake readiness stuff was when I worked for a couple of months in Miami in 1991. There was a drought and the water from the dregs of the Everglades looked like tea and stunk a little bit. It was terrible just bathing in it, I cannot imagine having been too poor to have to drink it.
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At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the shape of things to come
I’d love to see these suits drinking a piss and shit cocktail.
So, if you went up and handed him a glass of sewage water, he’d drink it?
Like the American (or was it Aussie) politician who said he’d drink water run off from fracking, only to duck out of it when a member of the public served him exactly that at a Q+A session.
Reclaimed/recycled water is perfectly safe and in use in a number of major cities, including Los Angeles. Calling it “drinking sewer water” is disingenuous bullshit.
Now that’s a very misleading article title. Almost like it’s the BBC trying to make clickbait titles despite having no need too do so what with being funded by the public and all; though honest journalism is in rare supply nowdays.
The actual article itself is solely about treated water and water recycling methods rather than just dumping sewage water. Something common in countries that have limited access to water.
Now yes one could make arguments as to would there be a regulatory body that cares to actually make sure said treatment is actually taking place and to the correct levels; as ours clearly isnt up to the task. The article itself doesnt approach this nuance and instead just comes out with click bait titles misconstruing everything being discussed in the article
he can go first
will be like the indian politician who drank from the ganges
They should drink it then
Like that bloke saying roundup was safe to drink and then saying “no, I’m not an idiot” when the interviewer offered him some.
Well i suppose those that pop their clogs from cholera won’t be a ‘drain’ on the country’s finances anymore. A solid, practical Tory policy if i ever saw one.
Right, so first it’s eat bugs and now it’s drink sewage too? This meal ain’t seeming very appetising to me. Oh well, guess I will eat nothing and be happy.
“It’s only cholera you snowflakes!”
I have no issue with the concept of drinking water from treated sewage. What I do have issue with is this government’s ability to ensure the sewage stays out of said water. Given the headlines over recent days on sewage being discharged onto beaches I’m not exactly filled with confidence.
Hey you’re swimming in it at the beach so how bad can it be?
Force these foreign massive profit making companies to heavily invest and fix this shit (while creating jobs)
Surely every drop we drink in the UK has been through at least one human or animal by now? Maybe not the ice cap stuff though, that’s probably got dinosaur urine in it though?
I don’t see what the problem is, although I am chuckling at the red dwarf sketch about “urine recyc”. “Are you sure sir? It’s beginning to taste like Dutch lager”
The water companies can bearly stop leaking shit water into rivers and the sea. Like fuck should we be trusting them not to leak it into our drinking supply.
I assumed that was the case?… The BBC calling it “Sewage water” probably isn’t helping.
> By 2030, toilet water could be deposited into rivers near treatment plants so it can be collected and processed as drinking water.
Aren’t they already doing that? Do we really need to do that on a mass scale?
What are they trying to prepare us for exactly with all these articles?
I assumed the UK already used water from sewerage. I’m from Bristol & I remember a saying that our water had been through the bellies of 7 Welsh people before we got to drink it.
What’s more worrying, is that untreated sewerage are routinely discharged into rivers & the sea & our Government are happy about that.
Isn’t this is more or less how the water cycle works anyway? We’re all drinking dinosaur pee essentially.
So long as it’s treated and safe.
Wouldn’t you know it, the conservatives are turning our country into a litral shithole.
This is an incredibly irresponsible title. Recycled wastewater is a common way to provide drinking water in many countries.
It’s not “sewage water”, it’s drinking water safely made from wastewater that originally included sewage. Our current drinking water is safely made from water from rivers which can also contain sewage, pollution fron agricultural run off etc.
There’s no magic clean water that just exists. All of drinking water involves taking something which can be dirty and treating it to make it safe
I assumed this was already the case in London but apparently not. You wouldn’t know it from how awful the water here tastes, though.
Also, if you’re upset about this, wait until you find out that farmers use [human shit](https://www.bbc.com/newsround/58654125) to fertilise crops.
It’s best not to think about any of it, really.
Well it’s what we’ve been drinking anyway so crack on mcduff
Knowing how our British private utilities run, we’ll have straight up shit coming out of the tap in no time!
TBF I thought we already were. Treated water is perfectly safe.
Welcome to Tory Britain where we are literally drinking piss and shit.
The first time I ever started buying bottles of drinking water that was not for camping or for our earthquake readiness stuff was when I worked for a couple of months in Miami in 1991. There was a drought and the water from the dregs of the Everglades looked like tea and stunk a little bit. It was terrible just bathing in it, I cannot imagine having been too poor to have to drink it.
And to that expert I say, “bottoms up pal”.