Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090612/0850215210/dailydirt-dont-drink-water.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090612/0850215210/dailydirt-dont-drink-water.shtml

About 60% of people (surveyed by the WateReuse Research Foundation) don't want to drink water that has ever had direct contact with sewage. The other 40% are wastewater engineers. [url]

Manufacturing plants are apparently releasing lots of pharmaceuticals into wastewater streams. And wastewater processing facilities aren't catching the drugs before releasing them into rivers... [url]

Oklahoma is responding to its ongoing drought after seeing more than its fair share of triple digit temperatures. Unfortunately, some predictions say this "exceptional drought" could last a bit longer, maybe until autumn. [url]

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