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- A Tall, Cool Drink of ... Sewage?
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  When you flush in Santa Ana, the waste makes its way to the sewage-treatment plant nearby in Fountain Valley, then sluices not to the ocean but to a plant that superfilters the liquid until it is cleaner than rainwater. The "new" water is then pumped 13 miles north and discharged into a small lake, where it percolates into the earth. Local utilities pump water from this aquifer and deliver it to the sinks and showers of 2.3 million customers. It is now drinking water. If you like the idea, you call it indirect potable reuse. If the idea revolts you, you call it toilet to tap.
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- City of Seattle won't buy bottled water
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Times
  Good move.  Shoulda happened a long time ago.  We have one of the best municipal water supplies in the country; we should be proud to drink "Seattle's finest, straight from the tap."
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- Scientist who invented virtual water wins Stockholm Water Prize
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  "For a single hamburger, an estimated 2,400 liters of water are needed. In the USA, the average person consumes nearly 7,000 liters of virtual water every day." It said that was more than three times the average consumption of a Chinese person.
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- Meds lurk in drinking water
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  And while researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public — have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife.
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- Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?
  Posted by angliss from Scholarsandrogues
  Orange County is putting reverse-osmosis treated sewer water back into the county's aquifer, and residents are going "Ick!" Their response speaks to ignorance of the fact that nearly every drop of water they've ever drank was once something's toilet.
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- More than 40 percent of Chinese rural drinking water unfit: report
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  More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China falls short of government standards, state media said Monday, citing a health ministry study.
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- Second Thoughts about Fluoride, reports Scientific American
  Posted by nyscof from Reuters
  Fluoride, long believed to be a safe cavity-fighter, may be neither.
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RussWellen comments on:
Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?

Ick is right.

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10:00 am 3/04/08
Damianmann comments on:
Imagine Atlanta Without Fresh Water: Georgia Lake Dries Up

pretty scary

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1:19 pm 11/18/07
Mikep2 comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

And to be in line with the previous two posts…it’s been around 70 for the past two days here in Seattle

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4:46 pm 10/23/07
Mikep2 comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

If there is farming in southwest Utah (WHICH IS A DESERT) then I am sure there are other equally arid places being farmed. And thus, using all that water to grow stuff in a desert. Sorry to say that we just might have to make some tough choices, eh?

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4:45 pm 10/23/07
Sarahfelicity comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

Heading up to 79 here today… October 22…

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7:49 am 10/22/07
Jeff comments on:
The Future Is Drying Up

And it was 70 and sunny in Toronto today… 90 in Chicago two weeks ago. It’s mid October…btw…

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4:10 pm 10/21/07

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Jon does technology and communications strategy consulting for environmental nonprofits at ONE/Northwest. He blogs a bit.
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