Warming dishes
sf wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:52:47 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/27/2016 6:54 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I run water down the drain, it isn't wasted. It's treated,
>>>> discharged into Lake Erie (via the Huron River), and is then available
>>>> for Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo and points east. Our water authority
>>>> brags that it's cleaner after it leaves the wastewater treatment plant
>>>> than it was when it entered the water treatment plant in Lake St. Clair.
>>>
>>> My problem is that it does not go where it's needed ... back into the
>>> reservoir. I pass by it all the time, it's only a mile or so from my
>>> house, and when you see a lot of shoreline and 'sand bars' you know
>>> we're running low on fresh water.
>>>
>>> Our sewage is, of course, treated, then sent out into the ocean where it
>>> would have gone on its own anyway.
>>
>> Waste water, no matter what happens to it, is still recycled and
>> renewed. It doesn't go down the drain right into outer space. Ocean
>> water and polluted water still evaporates and comes back down as clean
>> rain water.
>
> It's not free. When you waste water, your money goes down the drain
> with it.
>
+1!
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