I love you North East Ohio Regional Sewer District
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Woah, they take wastewater and turn it into drinking water? Is that common? I would have thought it would be cost prohibitive.
releasing human sewage directly into the environment would be ecologically disastrous.
Well I was thinking there's a big difference between what is safe to release into the environment (solids removed, UV treated to kill germs, maybe some other stuff) vs safe drinking water. But I guess waste water is mostly just water - not mostly urine. So maybe it's not as big of a gap as I assumed. After all, they pump water in from rivers and lakes for filtering and treatment before putting it in the pipes, maybe it isn't that big of a difference after all?
This is Ohio man, we draw our drinking water from the same rivers and lakes that the town upstream dumps their treated sewage into
I guess the difference is that it's presumably quite diluted by the river, rather than directly feeding waste water back to the drinking water pipe.