I propose a toast! To the Golden State. Or, more specifically, the Golden Brown State.
As a fourth year of drought continues to drain aquifers and reservoirs, California water managers and environmentalists are urging adoption of a polarizing water recycling policy known as direct potable reuse.
Unlike nonpotable reuse — in which treated sewage is used to irrigate crops, parks or golf courses — direct potable reuse takes treated sewage effluent and purifies it so it can be used as drinking water…
Instead of flushing hundreds of billions of gallons of treated sewage into the Pacific Ocean each year, as they do now, coastal cites can capture that effluent, clean it and convert it to drinking water.
Can they post selfies of themselves drinking their own poop-water? Can they post vids to YouTube? Hell, if Jerry Brown wants to charge $19.99 a month to let us watch Californians slugging down their own doo-doo, I’ll be the first to sign up.
Or, here’s an idea: All the people who are better than the rest of us because they live in California can go back to using outhouses. Or they can crap in the woods like animals. In terms of human history, indoor plumbing is still a new development. So hey, it didn’t work out for our friends on the coast. These things happen.
Would you rather do your business in a hole in the ground, or drink sewage that the government insists is completely safe? Neither one sounds very appealing, but at least the first one is all-natural.
You can either be a bunch of spoiled brats, California, or you can conserve water. You have to choose.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go drop somethin’ off. Consider it a gift from Flyover Country!