Soon We’ll Be Drinking Recycled Pee; Some of Us Already Are–Phoenix Beware!

I guess I’ll have to start taking bottled water when I go there…

(Nov. 1) — Someday, millions of Americans will be drinking their own urine, says Robert Roy Britt, managing editor of LiveScience.com, a news site that prides itself on the provocative approach it takes to science.

In a recent commentary for the site, Britt, based in arid Phoenix, said that because of imminent drought in the West, many people will have to rely on treated sewage — containing human waste — for their drinking water.

“We now have too many people living in places where we don’t have fresh water,” Britt told AOL News.

As an example, Britt cited the Phoenix area, which gets its drinking water from a remote body of reservoirs, including Lake Mead, which sits more than 230 miles away.

He suggested that Phoenix and other cities throughout the Southwest may soon go the way of Orange County, Calif., which does exactly what he’s foretold – it recycles wastewater into tap water.

That’s right. From the toilet bowl to the punch bowl, so to speak.

via Soon We’ll Be Drinking Recycled Pee; Some of Us Already Are.