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"NEWater looks like any other glacier-clear bottled H20. Except, reports Salon, it gushes from the toilets of Singapore instead of a bubbling spring. NEWater is the product of Singapore's new water-treatment system, and it's wastewater that's been purified through advanced synthetic membranes called ZeeWeed, which could help 20% of the world's population that doesn't have easy access to clean water."
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I'm not sure that I could drink it *knowing* that was it's source.
If I drank it and someone told me after the fact, yes. Not before though.
Kinda like, if I ate something and it was great and then they told me it was rat I'd still eat it.
If someone said, "This is rat" I wouldnt
Ferrel!
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Azakias said:
Virtually all the water you drink passed through a creature's urinary tract in one form or another. Why not?
That's the thing... Logically I know this. Even living in a City you know this is true. However it's not confirmed fact that this was the sole source for the water you're consuming. There could have been other sources contributed to it.
It's mostly a mental objection....
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Ferrel thought about the meaning of life:
No >_<If I drank it and someone told me after the fact, yes. Not before though.
Kinda like, if I ate something and it was great and then they told me it was rat I'd still eat it.
If someone said, "This is rat" I wouldnt
Thats just like the first time I tried pepperettes (or whatever they're called). My friend kept saying "Try them, they're really good." and he wouldn't tell me what they are unless I tried it first. It was kinda funny, he was expecting me to cough it back up when he told me they were ostrich legs. They were damn tasty. 
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Ferrel had this to say about Optimus Prime:
No >_<If I drank it and someone told me after the fact, yes. Not before though.
Kinda like, if I ate something and it was great and then they told me it was rat I'd still eat it.
If someone said, "This is rat" I wouldnt
Scientists say that the ammount of fresh water over time is constant throughout time... so your already drinking dino piss. who care's it's water....
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Ferrel spewed forth this undeniable truth:
If someone said, "This is rat" I wouldnt
I live next to Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. My uncle works for the Water and Light. The wastewater is treated and goes back out into the lake.
The wells that the Water and Light have dug to get water go very deep underground under Lake Superior. The federal government requires you to treat your water before it's put out into the water mains by using various chemicals mandated by the EPA. The water retrieved from the wells is so clean that the chemicals don't take effect. My uncle has complained on numerous occations that they have to dirty the VERY clean well water just a little bit in order to make the chemicals work! 
Not right at all!
You can rest assured I wouldn't dare drink that water mentioned above.
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Ferrel impressed everyone with:
No >_<If I drank it and someone told me after the fact, yes. Not before though.
Kinda like, if I ate something and it was great and then they told me it was rat I'd still eat it.
If someone said, "This is rat" I wouldnt
Rat tastes good though. If I was thirsty enough I'd drink hemlock, so yes I'd drink this.
Though I'm not even sure how that would be viable, really.
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The Singapore Water Reclamation Study (NEWater Study) was initiated in 1998 as a joint initiative between the Public Utilities Board (PUB) and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR). The primary objective of the joint initiative was to determine the suitability of using NEWater as a source of raw water to supplement Singapore's water supply. NEWater is treated used water that has undergone stringent purification and treatment process using advanced dual-membrane (microfiltration and reverse osmosis) and ultraviolet technologies. NEWater could be mixed and blended with reservoir water and then undergo conventional water treatment to produce drinking water (a procedure known as Planned Indirect Potable Use or Planned IPU).
Planned IPU as a source of water supply is not new. It has been practised in several parts of the United States for more than 20 years. At Water Factory 21, Orange County Water District, Southern California, high quality water reclaimed from treated used water has been injected into ground water since 1976. Similarly, at Upper Occoquan Sewage Authority (UOSA), North Virginia, high quality reclaimed water is discharged into Occuquan Reservoir since 1978. Occoquan Reservoir is a source of water for more than a million people living in the vicinity of Washington DC.Water reclamation is a growing trend in the U.S. and around the world. In the U.S., there are several other water reclamation projects that are now being planned or under construction. Two of them are at Gwinnett near Atlanta, Georgia and at Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona.
Taken from the website.
Essentially, there's a membrane between two bodies of water. One has, let's say salt in it, the other has a signifigantly lower concentration of said salt.
In NORMAL osmosis, for some reason, water will want to pass through the membrane to the side with the higher concentration of salt. In REVERSE osmosis, pressure is applied to the side with the higher concentration, thus forcing the water to the other side, sans salt. This makes higher concentrations of stuff that's dealt with other ways.
Anyway, replace salt with general minerals dissolved in the water, and you get the idea. I thought it was really cool...
