22 Apr 07
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Originally posted by xlchainsawSpeaking of taste (and smell) did you know that our top scientists in the U.S. are working on a water filtration system for astronauts? Yeah, it's to be used on their trip to Mars and back. The system is supposed to collect their urine, sweat and whatever other water is available then purify it to drink. 😳
if they just did it and not told anyone im of the opion that nobody would pick up on it by taste alone.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/urine_pr.html
Anybody wanna be an astronaut? 😲
22 Apr 07
What about natural spring water? What do you think that has been trickling through? Nobody complains about drinking that.
Any 'recycled water' is going to be thoroughly cleansed.
Why shouldn't you take shorter showers and not use water on gardens etc?
In the UK we have been having hosepipe bans in summer for years now. Sharing a bath with another person was advertised on tv as a good way to save water! 🙂
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22 Apr 07
Originally posted by xlchainsawI wouldn't worry. Where I live, if Mother Nature cleans the water, often we have to clean it a second time anyway before it's drinkable. After all, Mother Nature lets the fish piss in her water.
thats the problem. it depends on WHO cleans the water mother nature or the govt.
Richard
22 Apr 07
Originally posted by xlchainsawThey won't and anyway, the water from the dam has to be treated to make it drinkable.
if they just did it and not told anyone im of the opion that nobody would pick up on it by taste alone.
BTW, 70% of the tap water in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, is recycled and has been for over 40 years. The Aussies just better get used to the idea.
22 Apr 07
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Originally posted by Shallow BlueHmmm... interesting point.
I wouldn't worry. Where I live, if Mother Nature cleans the water, often we have to clean it a second time anyway before it's drinkable. After all, Mother Nature lets the fish piss in her water.
Richard
Of course asking 'do fish drink water'? is a bit absurd.
Reminds me of when a person asked me, "Do Eskimos have refrigerators?" When I said, "No", he replied, "How do you think they keep their food from freezing!?" I was only 19 years old and wasn't sure if the definition of a refrigerator could include something 'that preserves food'? So he had me stumped as to whether Eskimos had refrigerators or not? 😞