Do you drink the water?

Tank or not?

  • Yes I do

    Votes: 73 68.9%

  • Not on your life!

    Votes: 33 31.1%
  • Total voters
    106
vwalan said:
gas is taken from most big landfills . and gas from sewage works powers motors that drive generators and supply the mains electric system.
this sort of thing is what i liked about working in the waste industry. had several trips away in uk and abroad because i was interested in the workings . all paid for by the company i worked for.
i also pop into works in africa and spain etrc when abroad for awhile . amazing what good work is being done in many places . the western world as we know it is backwards in time compared to many countries .
the desalination plants in africa are fantastic . in many places they are turning the sahara back into plantation land .
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I can't see any evidence of it happening in the local ones but one does seem to have ventilation pipes coming out open to the air. You should see the water that used to come out of the bottom of it as well. Not much seemed to grow in it.

Richard
 
harrow said:
Plastics cardboard, that sort of thing, tons of it.

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All sorts of other things as well. 100's of litres of contaminated water which you would not hesitate to chuck down the loo at home is sucked into plastic bags, boxed up and I am told, sent for incineration. Yes folks we burn water! If they don't burn it I hate to think what they put in it to treat it. The previous hospital had its own incinerator but the new one was not allowed as it was against EU regs.

Richard
 
Drink the water from tanks onboard?

We probably don't but as a refreshment but do use it for teas and coffees etc.
Have no problem drinking the water straight from the majority of burns, rivers and lochs of Scotland though.

Growlie69
 
I have lost touch a bit since leaving the quarrying industry in 2000 but Hope Valley cement works was using scrap tyres that were shredded, pulped then used as a fuel with the resulting fume and particulates being incinerated at very high temperature before being let to atmosphere. anyone who has visited Mam Tor and looked across would never guess what the fuel was :)

People putting waste into bins would be a great start, throwing rubbish out and fly tiping should carry huge penalties as far as I am concerned. We often see wagon tyres that have been fly tipped but I haven't heard of any prosecutions recently, may be because I no longer read environmental prosecutions but more likely the council does not have enough money to pay someone to trace serial numbers on the tyres

Making a mess of you water usage post sorry Chris but it is a good topic to discuss :)
 
Thanks everyone for your input.

As I suspected the majority do indeed use the tank as intended ...
 
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