Brits warned 'get used to drinking recycled toilet water' to avoid shortages

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[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Everyone drinks recycled toilet water already.

It's called water.

[–]FUCK_RACHEL_MADDOW 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

yeah, technically that is correct...

but there is a difference between drinking directly from the toilet and drinking piss that has been recycled by mother nature.

i have been saying for a few years now that we are approaching a major water shortage and everybody seems to like to laugh it off.

now they are saying that we should adjust to drinking toilet water.

just fyi, this is what happens when you let the homos into the white house.

they fuck up every thing.

/u/usehername

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Much like famine are usually caused by politics rather than actual shortages the UK is really, really not low on fresh water and never will be.

The systems have been badly maintained so water is not being collected efficiently and is being lost through leaking pipes.

We had exactly the same situation in the 1990s and the water companies got a scare and sorted it out but over time they became lax again.

Likely they are pushing this because there's more money to be made in selling recycled water than investing in repairs.

[–]FUCK_RACHEL_MADDOW 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The systems have been badly maintained so water is not being collected efficiently and is being lost through leaking pipes.

this is a thing where people come into the forums to DENY that we have certain crisis situations going on...

i am pretty sure that we have a serious serious water shortage situation and that these deniers will refuse to accept the situation as it is..

we are facing a global catastrophe.

when we run out of water, may god have mercy on us and just kill us quickly.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You may have a water crisis.

The country known for being permanently rainy and grey does not.

This stuff isn't difficult.

You are playing into the hands of people hoping to make money out of a fear of scarcity if you take local or logistical problems and pretend they are universal.