Californians, get ready to drink your own piss

Good day all. I saw this amusing little story over at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler the other day. Thanks to the utter incompetence and stupidity of the Californian political class, the state is suffering from one of the worst droughts in living memory.

This didn’t have to happen, but thanks to Governor Jerry “Choo Choo” Brown, there hasn’t been a water project in that state in decades. (Brown killed a number of projects the last time he was governor) Add to this the fact that a good 40 percent of the states potable water supply is being poured into the Pacific by court order and you can see why they are desperate out there. Well, they have come up with an answer. How about recycling all that liquid people flush down the toilets each day? Here are the details from the Los Angeles Times:

As a fourth year of drought continues to drain aquifers and reservoirs, California water managers and environmentalists are urging adoption of a polarizing water recycling policy known as direct potable reuse. Unlike nonpotable reuse — in which treated sewage is used to irrigate crops, parks or golf courses — direct potable reuse takes treated sewage effluent and purifies it so it can be used as drinking water. But there’s just one problem — the “yuck factor.”

Yeah, yuck is right. Still, this is California and with a little work, they will make this the latest “Cool thing to do.” Just think if the reality tv shows they could come up with. (I won’t thank you because YUCK!)

It’s a concept that might cause some consumers to wince, but it has been used for decades in Windhoek, Namibia — where evaporation rates exceed annual rainfall — and more recently in drought-stricken Texas cities, including Big Spring and Wichita Falls.

Texas has a drought? Has anyone told the Texans? I think you can find them rafting down main street in Big Spring if you want to check with them.

In California, however, similar plans have run into heavy opposition.

Gee, I wonder why that might be?

Los Angeles opponents coined the derisive phrase “toilet to tap” in 2000 before torpedoing a plan to filter purified sewage water into an underground reservoir — a technique called indirect potable reuse. In 1994, a San Diego editorial cartoonist framed debate over a similar proposal by drawing a dog drinking from a toilet bowl while a man ordered the canine to “Move over…”

Despite those defeats, proponents say the time has finally arrived for Californians to accept direct potable reuse as a partial solution to their growing water insecurity.

Are these the same proponents who drink nothing but Perrier while telling people that they know what’s best for them?

Instead of flushing hundreds of billions of gallons of treated sewage into the Pacific Ocean each year, as they do now, coastal cites can capture that effluent, clean it and convert it to drinking water. “That water is discharged into the ocean and lost forever,” said Tim Quinn, executive director of the Assn. of California Water Agencies. “Yet it’s probably the single largest source of water supply for California over the next quarter-century.”

Lost forever? Spoken like a true Moonbat. It’s lost only until it evaporates, becomes clouds and then rains pure clean water…In Texas. However, minds might be changing.

“You know, toilet to tap might be the only answer at this point,” said Van Nuys activist Donald Schultz. “I don’t support it, but we’re running out of options. In fact, we may have already run out of options.”

It isn’t, but it’s one answer. There are far better ones such as desalinization, or not pouring billions of gallons of fresh water into the pacific for a fish no one cares about, including other fish.

Potable reuse advocates insist the public’s distaste for the concept is based on ignorance. They note that more than 200 wastewater treatment plants already discharge effluent into the Colorado River, which is a primary source of drinking water for Southern California.

Perhaps, but that water is still going through the natural filtration process that has worked since the Earth cooled and water formed.

Although potable reuse advocates say opposition is often driven by a visceral response to the process, the so-called yuck factor, those who opposed the Los Angeles project said recently that they did so for a variety of reasons, including cost and the potential long-term effects of the trace quantities of drug compounds, hormones and personal care products found in wastewater and surface water.

Some of those contaminates can make it through the filtration systems. About the only way to really purify that water is running it through miles of earth and evaporation. Or breaking it down to the component items of Hydrogen and Oxygen and then recombining it. If you think filtration is expensive, take a look at the costs of cracking water. It would guarantee the water was pure though.

The presence of so-called contaminants of emerging concern may prove to be one of the main barriers to direct potable reuse. Because of limited scientific knowledge, these compounds are unregulated, meaning that there are no government-prescribed methods for monitoring or removing them.

California is now facing the mess it created. Nearly 50 years of trendy Progressive idiocies have turned the state from the most prosperous state in the union into literally, a desert. The problems California is facing are of their own making. I have no sympathy for them. Now they can learn to wipe their butts with sand, just like the Arabs they so admire do in the deserts of the Middle East.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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