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23rd January 2016, 10:33
Waste water treatment prepares used water for reusage. I found this definition on wiki:
Wastewater, also written as waste water, is any water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water) that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment) influence. Wastewater can originate from a combination of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) activities, surface runoff or stormwater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwater), and from sewer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_sewer) inflow or infiltration.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater#cite_note-:0-1)
Notice it includes industrial and agricultural (an activity that involves increasing use of pesticides)
And studies conducted on tap water reveal that tap water contains ("minimal"/"acceptable"/...) values of elements from medicine, drugs and detergents (source (http://www.gezondheidsnet.nl/voeding/vaker-resten-geneesmiddelen-in-drinkwater)*). This is not an exclusive list as tapwater may also contain metals from piping, depending on the construction of the building through which the water flows.
But, and despite government incentives to use tapwater as it is very safe, how can we exclude that these "accepted" values are or carry the underlying cause of growingly dominant diseases such as cancer?
* Dutch source, kindly machine-transl, discussing results from a study by the Dutch Royal Institute for Public Health. Indicating a growing level of medicine remnants. One glass had been found to contain remnants from at least 22 different medicines. Apparently in England Prozac sips out of the tap, while in the Netherlands it's fenazon and acetylsalicylic acid.
Wastewater, also written as waste water, is any water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water) that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment) influence. Wastewater can originate from a combination of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) activities, surface runoff or stormwater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwater), and from sewer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_sewer) inflow or infiltration.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater#cite_note-:0-1)
Notice it includes industrial and agricultural (an activity that involves increasing use of pesticides)
And studies conducted on tap water reveal that tap water contains ("minimal"/"acceptable"/...) values of elements from medicine, drugs and detergents (source (http://www.gezondheidsnet.nl/voeding/vaker-resten-geneesmiddelen-in-drinkwater)*). This is not an exclusive list as tapwater may also contain metals from piping, depending on the construction of the building through which the water flows.
But, and despite government incentives to use tapwater as it is very safe, how can we exclude that these "accepted" values are or carry the underlying cause of growingly dominant diseases such as cancer?
* Dutch source, kindly machine-transl, discussing results from a study by the Dutch Royal Institute for Public Health. Indicating a growing level of medicine remnants. One glass had been found to contain remnants from at least 22 different medicines. Apparently in England Prozac sips out of the tap, while in the Netherlands it's fenazon and acetylsalicylic acid.