Is Drinking from the Toilet Bowl the Best Way to Deal with Water
Shortages?

By Elizabeth Royte, AlterNet. Posted September 20, 2008.

More and more cities are implementing "toilet to tap" programs as the
answer to our water crisis. But is it the best and safest option?

This piece originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

Before I left New York for California, where I planned to visit a
water-recycling plant, I mopped my kitchen floor. Afterward, I emptied
the bucket of dirty water into the toilet and watched as the foamy
mess swirled away. This was one of life's more mundane moments, to be
sure. But with water infrastructure on my mind, I took an extra moment
to contemplate my water's journey through city pipes to the
wastewater-treatment plant, which separates solids and dumps the
disinfected liquids into the ocean.

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