Dave asks:

Can the people of San Diego get the message?
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San Diego’s water supply issues are symptomatic of a way of life that seeks to defy the laws of nature. “Lets build huge cities in the desert that don’t have the basic means to sustain themselves.” Throughout the south west communities have to come to terms with reality. It is impossible to use more water resources then you possess without consequences. The toilets to tap water process is a laudable step in the right direction.

There are various way to convert water from the pot into potable water. The small town of Arcata, CA has a unique way of doing it that can been copied in residential or industrial scale. The city made their poop conversion process into a recreation area. I guess that means they play with their shit.

sorrel.humboldt.edu/~ere_dept/marsh/
Its kind of a hoakie web site, but what do you expect from a bunch of hippies?

Sorry, misquote, put brain in-gear and engage.

If only San Diego would get the message. :X

I had an entire post written up, but it just stated that San Diego is full of people who have no idea what they're doing and are being lead by a man who caved.

Forgive me, San Diego. Good luck city council. Fight the good fight.

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Ohhhhwahh. Butt I don't want to give up my 26 yr old high-flow toilets.!!? I'm not always strong enough to plunge.

Hire yourself a bowl boy, SP.

It's not the poop germs that would worry me. It's all the medications people are one these days. Birth control pills. Hormone replacement therapy. Antibiotics. Antidepressants. This sort of system may only be fool proof when we abandon our drug addict society. Sure, it gets out the germs and filth, but does it actually clean-up the medications?

Maybe I'm just firing my gun into the air and hoping that the bullets don't fall nearby, but medications in groundwater are becoming a major problem in the Unites States. There's a pill for everything these days, and when we drink city tap water, we're all on them.

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Funny you mention that. I can't remember where I read it, but last week I read an article about fluoride in tap water. Some independent company studied a few areas to see if there was a national difference and found what was it... I think pseudephederine in the water as well as the fluoride. That creeped me out.

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The question is, can you really "filter out" at the molecular level. Seems to me, the only real process for creating pure water is distillation. Otherwise, you have to live with whatever can pass through the filtration system including MTBE, estrogen, fertilizer and dianalfloracrakide.

Anyway, I think Dave hit the nail on the head. What we've got here is too many people relying on too few resources. Like most of the world's ills, it can probably be resolved by reducing the local population by 90%.
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

I agree. Or we could just set a barrel under the gutter and run our own house-level filter process, and drink that or dump it into the toilet after every flush. I'd imagine that would get inconvenient fast though. And there's the drought problem.

You know what, scratch all that. Lets just reduce the populace like DP said.

dianalfloracrackide is a GREAT word. It sounds like a PDOG original!

Bilgepump will you be my bowl boy? I mean with your stage name and all, you sound perfect for the yob.

yeah, ok, why not? I'm not otherwise employed, and hardly in the position to turn down the "yob". Uh...whatever that is.

I've been saying we need to reduce the population for a long time. It's always been my idea to have a "population implosion month". The idea is to remove all the safety warning signs from everything in existence (particularly the really moronic ones like "don't drive with windshield screen in place") for a month. Intelligent people take shelter and just let all the dumbasses live their regular lives. Sure, we'd have people falling off major landmarks at Yosemite or electrocuting themselves trying to make toast in the bathtub, but what the hell! Odds are, the 90 percent population drop we're looking at would happen!

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On the surface, Volcano, your idea has merit. However, after spending some time considering it, if we rid ourselves of the idiots, who's left for me to feel more superior than? Oh wait...I get it....you're talking about me, aren't you!?!?

i think the pr people need to figure out a different name for the process. "Toilet to Tap" sounds bad. I thought it was a joke when I first heard of it years ago. Really, all the water we drink was, at some point in the past, locked-up in a giant dinosaur turd, or some neandertal's vomit or piss. It's been continuously recycled through the aeons. It sounds like a logical solution to me. As for letting the idiots kill themselves off, I've always been a proponent of letting nature take its course. In addition to lowering the number of people, the mean intelligence of the population would rise. Keeping The Shit Volcano's proposed measures in effect would continue to weed out the stragglers and those future idiots who were too young at the time of implementation to off themselves. (although idiot parents may well wind-up killing -off their own progeny, thus eliminating their genes from the gene pool).

And the rest of them would make a great food source for future generations of cattle.

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Shit water anyone?

Only when I'm suffering from diarrhea. Why do you ask, kjetski?
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