--- In [email protected], "David Patch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <ellengoodman6@>
> wrote:
> >
> > right so all waste water is recycled into drinking/bathing water
> > eventually, isn't it? Otherwise where does drinking/shower water come
> > from?
>
> I suppose, though "eventually" could be a very long time if, say, the
> wastewater from my house goes through the treatment plant, flows down
> a river (in my case, the Great Lakes System/St. Lawrence) to the
> ocean, gets evaporated, is redeposited on earth by a storm, et cetera.
> Maybe a particular gallon I flushed gets taken in by the water intake
> at Massena, N.Y., or even Cleveland, rather than getting all the way
> to the Atlantic, but by then it presumably has been so diluted by the
> other water that didn't come from a treatment plant that whatever
> "gray"-ness it had leaving the treatment plant has long since become
> irrelevant.
>
> I don't know what the recycling time would be for the average water
> molecule, but I've read somewhere that a typical drop of water from a
> spring in Minnesota needs centuries to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
>
> If the fact that the water you drink today may have had somebody's pee
> in it a millennium ago worries you, then take your mind off of it by
> considering that the vegetables you eat were quite possibly fertilized
> with cow manure. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, shit to shit.
>
> David Patch
>
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