It is still good to see researches sorting out knowledge gaps... BUT common sense must prevail...carcinogens are everywhere, Mountain stream may be "clean" but are still full of animal "by-products" (crypto, giardia etc,), we are all downstream of an upstream user and all water has been recycled many times. We should  be thank full for our access to abundant clean water sources ( "fresh" or recycled). The "fashionable pseudo-intellectuals" who argue against potable recycling need to think beyond their "anal" concern over NDMA,  endocrine disrupters  etc and focus on the broader issues of water availability and improved wastewater recycling. Urban dwellers are very lucky while rural and agricultural communities across first, second and third world communities are left dealing with whatever levels of water/wastewater treatment they can afford. As I used to tell my former students and staff... "If recycled water is good enough for astronauts to drink, its good enough for anyone!". Drink water, beer, wine, fruit juice, milk or whatever your "poison of choice". Don't drink and your will surely die with days... long before the nasties we fear  kill us! The water industry may be dominated by  a few professional, political and personal self-interested spokes people, but the vast silent majority of us provide invaluable services to our communities. Lets not let them down by allowing "over-anal" obsession with the minutia to dominate the future.

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It is still good to see researches sorting out knowledge gaps... BUT common sense must prevail...carcinogens are everywhere, Mountain stream may be "clean" but are still full of animal "by-products" (crypto, giardia etc,), we are all downstream of an upstream user and all water has been recycled many times. We should  be thank full for our access to abundant clean water sources ( "fresh" or recycled).

The "fashionable pseudo-intellectuals" who argue against potable recycling need to think beyond their "anal" concern over NDMA,  endocrine disrupters  etc and focus on the broader issues of water availability and improved wastewater recycling. Urban dwellers are very lucky while rural and agricultural communities across first, second and third world communities are left dealing with whatever levels of water/wastewater treatment they can afford.

As I used to tell my former students and staff... "If recycled water is good enough for astronauts to drink, its good enough for anyone!".

Drink water, beer, wine, fruit juice, milk or whatever your "poison of choice". Don't drink and your will surely die with days... long before the nasties we fear  kill us!

The water industry may be dominated by  a few professional, political and personal self-interested spokes people, but the vast silent majority of us provide invaluable services to our communities. Lets not let them down by allowing "over-anal" obsession with the minutia to dominate the future.