Recycled water

ah something I know about

the majority, 99.9% of all drinking water i.e - tap water in the UK is recycled.

Think about it, when you flush the loo it goes down the sewage pipes into a treatment works where solids are removed and through a process of filtering and chemical treatment the remaining fluid is fresh recycled drinking water.

Manchester and Liverpool (for example) get a majority of thier tap water from reservoirs all over the country (not just limited to local areas) reservoirs obviously contain rain water, run off, duck wee ** (plus drunken Dave on his way home from a pub on a saturday night and is caught short), this is then fed into a treatment works, cleaned and sent to your tap.

Kent Essex and Surrey for example mostly get their water from bore holes in aquifer's (a permiable rock, gravel, clay etc level in the Earth that you can draw groundwater from and is topped up by rain water, run off etc...that soaks back through the Earth into the permiable layer again ) and off to a treatment plant and then to your tap.

The is now way of telling if water is going to be hard or soft unless you know the aquifer it comes from but rain water is generally seen as soft whereas the majority of aquifers tend to be on the hard side (but this is not a given), treatment works can also effect the hardness or softness of water, depending on the chemical process's they use and also they can turn hard water into soft water.

The ONLY way of having natural water is if you have a well / spring/ aquifer in your back garden that you can draw water from, these obviously do occur naturally, Bath, Buxton, Matlock come to mind but to be honest the water tastes foul and is simply not fit for human consumption!!!!

Bottled water is NOT natural it IS treated, it has to be by law via UV light and other processes to make it safe and legal for human consumption so the fact remains that tap water, although recycled is far healthier than bottled water and people who buy bottled water are simply being conned. (I'd love someone to try and prove me wrong on this as I have been to a very large bottled water manufacturer to see this so called natural water being made, plus my Dad gave them the licence for them to do this procedure as he is (retired) a Hydrometric Engineer (with about 400 letters after his name the brainy git) who was in charge of all wells, reservoirs, sewage treatment works etc.. from Cheshire to the border of Scotland for the North West of England (basically if you wanted to do something with water in the NW be it a new reservoir, redirecting a stream or producing so called natural spring water, you had to ask my Dad first :D )

Water recycling is not a new process in the UK it has been going for years and gets better all the time as newer, safer, cleaner and better ways of treating water come along.

** think about the process that goes on here, I'll make it simple, water is evaporated from the Sea, a Sea that has raw sewage running in to it, ships floating in it, animals living, weeing pooing and dying in it a dumping ground for shopping trollys etc... the water that is evaporated from the sea WILL contain some of the impurities picked up from the aforementioned, this is then dumped in the form of rain either in to reservoirs or onto the ground (remember aquifer's) so treatment must take place via treatment plants, so if these heavy oils etc.. can be cleaned up by treatment plants, wee and poo are no problem :D

So dude put your mind at rest, recycled water is totally safe, if it makers you feel any happier buy a Water Filter to further purify your water, it won't do much as all you are doing is running the water over a carbon based compound but hey, my Wife is convinced it tastes better :rolleyes: :D

Sorry to go on but Water is something I know a hell of a lot about and if you like I can throw all the chemical eqations, impurity levels, filtering processes etc at you but quite frankly my above reply is already far too boring to read so I won't. (don't get me started on galvanic corrosion...sorry private ST joke).
 
ooo water impurity equations, sounds fun :)

plus drunken Dave on his way home from a pub on a saturday night and is caught short)

whats caught short? its the motion in the ocean buddy ;)
 
and those who say they only drink bottled water becuase they dont trust what comes out of the tap....

Next time you are eating food, washing your ahir, brushing your teeth etc... check the list of ingredients, it it says Aqau just think ' now do they have their own non recycled water supply that is a pure as the angels in heaven???

Nope it's the same old recycled wee wee water you get out of the tap

and before you say well thats only for foods processed in the UK, we are by no means the only country to recycle our water :D

end of from me now I promise :D
 
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