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Not called "toilet-to-tap"!
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it is still a duck...no matter what you want to call it. The City is spending a lot of money playing a PR marketing game to change the image of what it is doing. However, I regret to say that nothing is this article makes me gives me a warm fuzzy trusting feeling that the public's well-fair is being properly taken care of. Perhaps it is time, for those utilities employing such toilet-to-tap "recycled water," to declare their "potable" water as "not safe to drink -- drink at your own risk". Notify the consumers, who are directly impacted and to require such processes to be revealed when property gets purchased within the sphere of influence of such water treatment schemes. It is no longer adequate to say that some sort of source water meets USEPA or CA drinking water regulations -- those "standards" are merely the bare minimum and omit a lot! Furthermore, you can not test for harmful substances if you don't know what constituents to test for, to begin with. We certainly don't know everything. Wouldn't it be better to error on the side of caution? Viruses mutate, chemicals degrade and recombine in ways that aren't even currently being looked for. Consequently, it could take years for say a type of carcinogen/pathogen to clinically manifest itself within a given population group, while continuously being consumed by the public. I am sure that the "solution" presented is one of the least expensive but certainly not the best from a public health perspective— November 20, 2014 10 a.m.
Toilet to lobbyists
Basic water management 101 states that one of the primary functions of public water utility is to make sure their customers TRUST that the water from their tap is safe to drink. I regret to say that nothing is this article makes me gives me a warm fuzzy trusting feeling that the public's well-fair is being properly taken care of. Perhaps it is time, for those utilities employing such recycled water, to declare their tap water as "not safe to drink -- drink at your own risk". Notify the consumers, who are directly impacted and to require such processes to be revealed when property gets purchased within the sphere of influence of such water treatment schemes. It is no longer adequate to say that some sort of source water meets USEPA or CA drinking water regulations -- those "standards" are merely the bare minimum and omit a lot! Furthermore, you can not test for harmful substances if you don't know what constituents to test for, to begin with. We certainly don't know everything; wouldn't it be better to error on the side of caution? Viruses mutate, chemicals degrade and recombine in ways that aren't even currently being looked for. Consequently, it could take years for say a type of carcinogen/pathogen to clinically manifest itself within a given population group, while continuously being consumed by the public. I am sure that the "solution" presented is one of the least expensive but certainly not the best from a public health perspective.— November 5, 2014 2:04 p.m.