Drinking Toilet Water?

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** January 31st, 2008, 6:35 pm

http://www.slate.com/id/2182758/nav/tap3/?GT1=10755

o.O I find it...scary that we might have to resort to drinking toilet water because we're running out of fresh water to drink.

Any opinions on this?

Adbot · **Posted:** January 31st, 2008, 6:35 pm

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** January 31st, 2008, 6:54 pm

If it's clean, i don't really mind. The only worry would be getting unclean water come through. XD

Fisheyx · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 5:51 am

Ewww!!! thats nasty no *thows up all over mq*
*to mq* sorry bout that
no dont drink it!!!

Red Spear1 · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 9:23 am

No thanks ..

Just the thought of it would just put me off :\

Slimppu · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 2:23 pm

What's wrong with it? It's just as clean as any other water. :/

Evelyn · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 3:52 pm

I'll send it through one of those "pur" water filter thingys.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 3:52 pm

Chris · **Posted:** February 1st, 2008, 3:55 pm

I wouldn't say it's a water shortage as much as it is just the same amount of water but for a growing population. I'm pretty sure it is still raining the same amount as always, just that there are more people taking the water.

Makes me happy I live in a small population area, right meh South Dakota homie?

gost302 · **Posted:** February 2nd, 2008, 10:25 am

really it is fresh water but we ant purified it so we wont have to lol who cares people lived throught other more harder times drinking bugs and them lil red worms

Steven · **Posted:** February 9th, 2008, 6:26 am

gost302 wrote:

really it is fresh water but we ant purified it so we wont have to lol who cares people lived throught other more harder times drinking bugs and them lil red worms

I honestly cannot read that.

Okay WTF that's gross, drinking toilet water, ew. [-X

Mikhail · **Posted:** February 9th, 2008, 1:31 pm

Its not different than the dog drinking from toiler and licking you same thing, if the water purified it will the same water that comes out of the tap you guys make a huge deal out of this.

colinsoccer123 · **Posted:** February 9th, 2008, 7:32 pm

The water in the back of the water is perfectly clean, it's just drinking water.
You run into problems if you're drinking out of the real basin thing. That will probably be contaminated.

Alex · **Posted:** February 9th, 2008, 7:59 pm

Uh, am I the only one with a water filter?

If you're that worried about drinking toilet water, get one of those.

bhh2000 · adamanite member as of 2/12/08 10:51am!!

Alex wrote:

Uh, am I the only one with a water filter?

If you're that worried about drinking toilet water, get one of those.

yeah its the same as your tap water just in A duty bowl and is you don't like that use A purr water filter thing/A inferred light water cleaning pen like I have in my backpack

Steven · **Posted:** February 11th, 2008, 8:30 am

Just immagine:

A friend comes over to spend the night, you go into the bathroom in plain view to him and he sees you flush the toilet. Then get a cup of the water and drink it.

Obviously not too appealing.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** February 11th, 2008, 7:44 pm

I really can't help but laugh at some of these replies. This article you linked to is a very shoddily-written one with an obviously biased title. Of course no one wants to drink something referred to as "toilet water". But, do any of you realise that the current normal filtration processes strain out the same bacteria found in untreated water? You'll be getting the same drinkable water, but it will be more heavily-filtered. There is no reason why anyone should be like "EW OMG TOILET WATER WTF!" since the water we drink mostly comes from places that aren't very appealing. Do you think that a river that has been polluted in since the Industrial Revolution is going to produce better water than recycled and re-filtered water? That's preposterous. This seems like a good alternative for this place to consider if it's having trouble supplying water to its community.