Would you drink recycled water?
Asking someone whether he or she would mind drinking a glass of water that has already passed through a human body might be a misleading question. Of course all water on Earth has been ‘recycled’ by evaporation and then returned in the form of rain. But in the more direct sense, i.e., by human technological means, many of you have already consumed recycled or ‘reclaimed’ water, whether you know it or not. Cities on the Thames River in the UK – London being the biggest example – use reclaimed water in their drinking water supply. Raw sewage is treated and…
