Andres, are you sure that you never drank treated waste water? Have you heard about the water cycle? The river Rhine in Germany wich starts in switzerland and reaches the sea in the Netherlands has been drunken approx ten times on ints way.....means that the water works alongside the river are distributing "ex-waste water" to the public. anyway why would we need to drink treated waste water? there are plenty of other ways to utilize this ressource. However I generally agree with your statement. If you look at the figures about how little desalinated water is actually consumed by humans and how much is used for other purposes....Recharge the aquifer with treated effluent this is practised since decades in orange county and in Belgium at least.
Published by Ulrich Mende, Project manager
Andres, are you sure that you never drank treated waste water? Have you heard about the water cycle? The river Rhine in Germany wich starts in switzerland and reaches the sea in the Netherlands has been drunken approx ten times on ints way.....means that the water works alongside the river are distributing "ex-waste water" to the public. anyway why would we need to drink treated waste water? there are plenty of other ways to utilize this ressource. However I generally agree with your statement. If you look at the figures about how little desalinated water is actually consumed by humans and how much is used for other purposes....Recharge the aquifer with treated effluent this is practised since decades in orange county and in Belgium at least.
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Hi, Ulrich
I fully agree with your post. It all depends on the definition for waste water. Is that rejected drink-water or the usually "dark" effluent of a treatment station. Thanks for the data about the Rhein. Certainly, I'm sure I'm nowadays drinking water from there :-).
Published by Andres Alcolea Rodriguez, Head of Groundwater Division, TK Consult AG