The pathogens are easy to kill but they are only 1/20,millionth of the problem.  Today's sludges, septages and even "Properly??" treated waste-waters contain millions of man-made, potentially, life altering/ threatening and extremely persistent, "durable" "nano-compounds" such as "cytotoxins", "nonylphenols", "glyphosate", "estradiol", muscle relaxers, mood changers, fire protectants, plastic softeners plus millions more. At the present time, there are no known sustainable, safe methods for permanently, removing/ de-constructing these compounds. Today, there are organizations that promote saving your human urine to be used for garden fertilizer. 50 years ago this would have been an excellent idea but in today's world our urine contains compounds and sub-compounds that we do not want introduced into the food chain. The re-use of sewage water for potable, laundry, shower water is extremely frightening. We stopped using all composted sludge and recycling graywater >20 years ago. Please send me your e-mail address if you would like scientific documentation on all of this. Al

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The pathogens are easy to kill but they are only 1/20,millionth of the problem.  Today's sludges, septages and even "Properly??" treated waste-waters contain millions of man-made, potentially, life altering/ threatening and extremely persistent, "durable" "nano-compounds" such as "cytotoxins", "nonylphenols", "glyphosate", "estradiol", muscle relaxers, mood changers, fire protectants, plastic softeners plus millions more. At the present time, there are no known sustainable, safe methods for permanently, removing/ de-constructing these compounds. Today, there are organizations that promote saving your human urine to be used for garden fertilizer. 50 years ago this would have been an excellent idea but in today's world our urine contains compounds and sub-compounds that we do not want introduced into the food chain. The re-use of sewage water for potable, laundry, shower water is extremely frightening. We stopped using all composted sludge and recycling graywater >20 years ago. Please send me your e-mail address if you would like scientific documentation on all of this. Al