Tampa City Councilman Charlie Miranda Wants Us to Drink Shit
Charlie Miranda has come up with a plan to turn hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into drinking water. All in the name of self-sufficiency.
Yes, we are in the middle of a drought. But we aren’t desperate.
In 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a study of the treated wastewater from the city’s Howard F. Curren Wastewater Treatment Plant and found 27 different kinds of micropollutants in the recycled water even after it passed through a filtration process.
A plan to punish South Tampa homeowners who refuse to use reclaimed water on their lawns is the way to go.
That’s right, let’s go after Buffy and Thurston.
But if we’re having a hard time getting the goober smoochers to use this water on grass, imagine the trouble with getting them to put it into their bodies.
Would you drink it?
Retreated water contains nitrogen, steroids, antibiotics…and shit.
Is this the best that Miranda can do?
Tell Charlie Miranda that if he can’t come up with a better plan, we’ll elect someone who will.
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Catherine Durkin Robinson
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she’s crafty
There was a proposal to recycle shower water when I clerked in the Statehouse many years ago. One astute Rep pointed out that a lot of dudes pee in the shower. Can’t remember if it passed or not.
Would you drink it?
Probably not directly but from what the article states, the “drinkable” water is dumped back into the Hillsborough:
That sounds ok to me. You’re not drinking the purified water directly. Your water treatment plant would take that small amount of water released into the river that was mixed with the rest of the water (the solution to pollution is dilution)in the river and then do whatever water treatment plants do. Not so scary. You’re getting your water from a river where fish pee and shit willy nilly. This seems a bit prudish from Ms. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Don’t forget the added bonus: the water you are dumping into the ocean would be cleaner too.
let’s go after Buffy and Thurston.
This makes economic sense. The same argument works with the mess that is the current “cap and trade” global warming bill. Why should everyone, no matter what amount of energy they use, be forced to pay higher prices for energy to combat global warming?