Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water

Scientific American reports that Wichita Falls, Texas has taken an unusual step, precipitated by the years-long drought that Texas has faced: it's using treated sewage for drinking water. From the article: To launch what it calls its "Direct Potable Reuse Project," the city pipes water 12 miles from its wastewater treatment plant to this treatment facility where it goes through microfiltration. A pump pulls water through a module filled with fibers that removes most of the impurities. Then it is forced through a semi-permeable membrane that can remove dissolved salts and other contaminants. The process, called reverse osmosis, is used by the U.S. military, in ships and in the manufacture of silicon chips. The water then gets blended with lake water before going through the regular water treatment system. ... At 60 cents per 1,000 gallons, it's far cheaper than any other source of water, [Wichita Falls' public works director Russell] Schreiber said. ... He said there have been few complaints so far. A glass of the finished product, sampled at a downtown restaurant, tasted about average for West Texas.

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Re:Used on Ships?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe, you worthless retarded fuckpile of shit, your faggy fucking Navy ass was too far the fuck away from actually having to do something for once that you completely forgot about the tens of thousands stuck in the middle of a fucking desert.

Fucking dumbass.

Re:Ewww...

[angel'o'sphere]

Then perhaps you should read a book about chemistry or physics, or simply google, or jump over your shadow and try to understand what I wrote.
One molecule + another molecule form a two molecule long chain, due to their dipolar nature ... more make longer chains. If you don't know this I suggest you don't try to study at an european university ... normal educational stuff might be bejond your comprehension

Re:Ewww...

[angel'o'sphere]

So, according to you you, water does not form long chains of connected molecules and the actual form of those chains is not dependend on the ions in the water?
Please elaborate and farm in your Nobel Prize.
Sorry, you are an idiot, no idea about your homeopathy research, so. Perhaps you should publish about that more, too? So we can read about your ideas?
"Water memory", a form of Homeopathy ... what nonsense is that? what has the one to do with the other? (*facepalm*)