Sorry, I have wastewater autism: direct potable reuse (turning sewage into drinking water) is super rare and they def don’t do that at NEORSD.
Almost every time I give a tour someone says something like that and I have to explain sewage is treated and put back into the water body, then a different plant takes the water, treats it, and puts it in the water pipes. (Yes that’s just for surface water, but same idea for septic/wells)
Hmm, could you theoretically connect the output of a sewage plant to the input of a drinking water treatment plant, or does the river/dilution/… play some sort of important role in the middle?
You can put the water plant at the end of the sewage plant for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater but yeah the water body does some of the treatment too.
I still think it’s an underappreciated wonder of science that we are able to take literal shit soup and turn it back into drinking water again.
Sorry, I have wastewater autism: direct potable reuse (turning sewage into drinking water) is super rare and they def don’t do that at NEORSD.
Almost every time I give a tour someone says something like that and I have to explain sewage is treated and put back into the water body, then a different plant takes the water, treats it, and puts it in the water pipes. (Yes that’s just for surface water, but same idea for septic/wells)
thanks, Shit Wizard 420!
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Thank you for the educational “um, akshually”!
Hmm, could you theoretically connect the output of a sewage plant to the input of a drinking water treatment plant, or does the river/dilution/… play some sort of important role in the middle?
You can put the water plant at the end of the sewage plant for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater but yeah the water body does some of the treatment too.
thank you shit wizard, i just spent an hour on the EPA’s website learning about wastewater treatment!