Background Info:

Recent events and news about water scarcity got me thinking about this. So the question is essentially the title. Or am I missing something?

If you live anywhere that uses a sewer system rather than septic tanks, isn’t it already doing that?

In my area, the water company pulls in from the river, filters and processes it, and pipes it out to homes. It gets used in the homes, discharged into the sewer to a treatment plant, treated, and then pumped back into the river.

Even if your water company’s intake is before the sewage treatment plant, the next town’s intake is downstream. So if you’re not drinking your neighbor’s processed toilet water, you’re drinking that of the town upstream.

Is getting mixed with river water simply enough to “dilute” the ick-factor here, or is there something I’m missing?

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    6 months ago

    Poor branding aside, it doesn’t really change anything, though.

    Branding is everything when it comes to the masses. Ideas live or die because of their marketing.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      Lol, I hate that you’re right :sigh:

      Anyone who’s passed 5th grade science would know that water is fine, but that’s asking too much of more people than I’d care to imagine.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        If you had never heard of the actual things before, the following names are terrible.

        Would you sign up for a planned, injectable micro infection?

        or use a body restrainer strap in a car? A car equipped with an explosive skull decelerating dynamic catchment system?

        Just saying, naming of things matters

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        Men in Black nailed this 20 years ago:

        “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals…” - Agent K

        People as individuals are usually pretty smart in at least a few areas. People as the masses are highly emotional. Our emotions produce revulsion at the idea of drinking reclaimed water, and so that’s what you get as a response from the masses without proper marketing to change those feelings. So, if anyone isn’t giving this enough thought, I’d say it was the person who came up with the slogan “toilet to tap”. They should have known better.