Don't Eat The White Snow Either

loteck writes "An interesting article about an Australian ski resort that is converting human waste into freshly driven snow. The waste is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste."

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Re:Creek?

[Sethb]

My dad works at the waste treatment plant in Las Vegas, and he's told me many times that the water that comes out of the plant is acutally clean enough that it could be used for consumption, but they dump it back into Lake Mead, dirty it up with the lake's normal filth, then pull it back out, process it, and send it to your faucet.

He told me the only reason they don't just pipe it directly from the plant back into the drinking water system is that people would cringe at the thought of drinking it, even though it's much cleaner than what they're pulling out of the lake now.