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Originally Posted by badrunner
A lot of humans thrive while drinking treated sewage too! Like, anyone who lives in a city that's downstream of another city on a river.
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You don't say? By the time it gets to New Orleans the Mississippi River has passed through how many sets of kidneys and bowels? People in Knoxville, Tennessee drink Asheville's treated sewage eventually, and if anyone is out on the French Broad River in an inner tube north of Asheville, they're paddling around in it. Not to worry though, because the effluent that pours out of Asheville's sewage treatment plan is actually cleaner than the river it pours into. Meanwhile, all the people with their fancy houses on Lake Greenwood down here enjoy their lake view courtesy of some of Greenville's treated effluent, delivered fresh every day via the Reedy River. The folks down in Columbia get the rest of it via the Enoree River once it flows into the Broad River that runs past their downtown.
How many people are drinking filtered sewage
specifically, though? This is an article about making deliberate better use of a waste product. Something like this is right up there with naturalizing parts of the Los Angeles River to mitigate flooding and recharge the water table, and projects like that.