Britons should be "less squeamish" about drinking reprocessed Sewage Water

That's the opinion of the head of the Environment Agency , Sir James Bevan.

Sir James Bevan, head of the Environment Agency, said that people in the UK should be "less squeamish" when it comes to drinking water that has previously been mixed with sewage, as water companies plan to recycle water directly from flushed toilets.

I've heard of taking the piss but this smacks of taking it then giving it back to us ... Mmmm wholesome water , hopefully without bits !

He added we should "change the way they think about water", and "treat it as a precious resource, not a free good".
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I've just paid my water bill wasn't aware water was free , perhaps I could get a refund.

The arrogance of these people is beyond shameful , perhaps if the water companies fixed their pipes we wouldn't be losing 2,954 million litres a day to leakage they wouldn't be contemplating providing sewage for us to drink.

With the conversation now turning to renationalising energy companies the same should be done for water companies , perhaps freeing those companies from the burden of Shareholder dividends will free up some cash to sort our leaky infrastructure out.

Eat the Rich !

Just looked it up and Sir James earns £184,999 which I believe is around that paid to the PM for running the country and Jimmy only runs a poxy government agency.

it does sound like he is more in favour of the working class drinking the p#ss and sh*t of the rich than eating them

as i understand the water we drink has passed through hundreds of bodies already and mine has spent the last few decades filtering through chalk..

what we need is for them to fix leaks not mix gray and foul water while cutting back the filtering process

i find it more concerning that the environment agency sounds more like a paid lobbyist for the gates foundation.

a reply to: gortex

These people are sick.

BTW a vid of Bill Gates taking a fake sip of processed poo:

The water tasted as good as any I’ve had out of a bottle. And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It’s that safe. -Bill Gates

a reply to: zosimov

literally taking their p*ss and trying to sell it as Evian.. am sure they'll claim it has properties to make you lucky in love and richer..

snake oil salesmen to the front..

a reply to: nickyw

They want us eating maggot sausage and drinking poop water. But they have our best interests at heart. Where would we ever be without philanthropy!?

a reply to: zosimov

where would we be? probably happier, heathier and wealthier...and certainly wiser to not drink poop water..

I agree with what a poster above said.

I think what we need from the water companies is to spend more of their profits on fixing the leaks and updating the sewage systems.

a reply to: gortex

When these rich and elite people start leading by example, then maybe I will listen to what they have to say.

a reply to: gortex

This isn't really a brand new idea.

I'm assuming your age here but surely you remember Double Diamond?



eta Let's hope the people who do the catering for these globalist types have got a bit of imagination.

If you dont take alot of meds, you will be once you drink that water.

Seems that the filters dont take out pharmaceuticals

If anyone in the world drinks public water from the faucet should by now know it is no longer safe. Often there is feces in public water. The days of drinking water from the faucet are gone....

Drink and cook with bottled water.

a reply to: gortex

I think drinking treated sewage would be preferable to industrial chemical contaminates.

www.businessinsider.com...-west-virginia-is-still-recovering-from-a-massive-chemical-spill-10


However...
In my small village everyone has their own well but still buys bottled water from the store, because everyone still has a septic system. If there is a positive side, everyone's garden is a thing of beauty.

a reply to: gortex


Ummm...and Soylent Green is people too...

Long pork anyone...?

Anyone...?





YouSir

Time to pull out my first bag of popcorn as some folk are starting to, maybe, see where things are headed.

Poo water too "green" for you? I thought you were all about lining up and doing your duty, G.

a reply to: The GUT

its getting obvious even the hard of seeing, haring and smelling can't avoid seeing we are at end of life as a society as the infrastructure breaks down and all the big plans promises and hopes fail... the question is what the collapse of the west ends up looking like..

This system is already in place here in the USA (Southern California mostly).

I remember watching the footage of a well-dressed (suit and tie) gentleman drinking some reconstituted/refined/reworked/whatever water in a program they were calling "TTT" (or Toilet To Tap) project. This would've been like 2007 or 2008.

Couldn't find the references I'd like to.. but the National Geographic had this on the subject From Toilet to Tap

From Toilet to Tap DISCOVER, May 22, 2008 10:00 PM

California Drought: Orange County expands 'toilet to tap' water recycling Published March 6, 2014 05:30 AM

Why we all need to start drinking toilet water 6th January 2016


Johnny

a reply to: DeathSlayer

That depends.

In Portugal they publish the results of the frequent tests done to public water, and, personally, I prefer tap water to bottled water. My doctor told to drink tap water and not bottled water.

a reply to: JohnnyAnonymous

Don't the astronauts aboard the ISS drink recycled water?

a reply to: gortex

It can be done, but it's not going to be done properly in perpetuity if it's left to an unaccountable agency.

You will become an island of parasites and viral contagions. I think it's likely you'd see a spike in cancers, decline in reproductive efficiency, and neurological impairment.

Some pathogens are resistant to chemical disinfection. Essentially the first failure at the effluent point it's going to contaminate entire water systems with pathogens that require a 24 hour disinfectant shock.

Gray water recycling for beneficial use is great. Straight sewage includes industrial grade wastes that you do not want running around you water system. Hormones, drug metabolites, and heavy metals, all have potential to be present and undetected. Some of these contaminants may have adverse effects even below the detection limits of the lab analysis.

This would require multiple levels of redundancy in testing and physical gaps in the treatment and distribution. I just can't see this being deployed at scale and at reasonable cost with sufficient checks and balances to prevent an eventual catastrophe. All systems are promoted as safe these days, the newest technology and highest standards, and that all works amazingly well on paper and in the engineer's heads. Deployed in the real world with real consequences these claims never hold up to the rigors of reality.

God bless you all if you trust your government to deploy this given our current state of affairs. They'll be cutting the budgets and cutting corners before the systems are even done being built. I hope you all reject this. People that can't get their heads together to balance a budget shouldn't be trusted to relax rules on what protects the most critical resource you have. Disaster in the making.

Maybe they have a plan that would convince me. It's a real tough sell though once you talk about deploying this in anything more than a segregated specially monitored system. I've seen too many grand engineering plans that looked great to engineers that are easily recognizable as asking for failure to anybody that operates them in the real world.

As a child of the 80's, I just couldn't wait for the future. We were promised flying cars, hover boards, interplanetary travel...world peace!

I wish I could go back to those days.