{"id":1705886,"date":"2022-10-21T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705886"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:20:09","slug":"celine-ryan-ciccio-the-new-york-times-wants-you-to-get-comfortable-with-drinking-sewage-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celine-ryan-ciccio-the-new-york-times-wants-you-to-get-comfortable-with-drinking-sewage-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Ryan Ciccio: The New York Times Wants You to Get Comfortable With Drinking Sewage to Fight Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fceline-ryan-ciccio-the-new-york-times-wants-you-to-get-comfortable-with-drinking-sewage-to-fight-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/article_Sewage3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b><i>To Tell the Truth<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0is Human Events News\u2019 press analysis series. These stories will focus on \u201cnews\u201d being reported by either The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, or CBS News. Despite 24-hour cable broadcasts, and an untold number of internet sources, these established, mainstream platforms continue to influence the majority of American citizens and their political opinions.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The \u201cnews\u201d generated by these press outlets is better regarded as \u201copinion\u201d crafted in a way designed to discourage skepticism and critical thought on the part of the audience.\u00a0<\/i><b><i>To Tell the Truth<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0will be Human Events News\u2019 periodic effort to help address this bias and restore the skepticism necessary on the part of all Americans to maintain a free society.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <em>The New York Times<\/em> published a piece titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/20\/climate\/treated-sewage-virginia-aquifer.html\"><i>There\u2019s Something in the Water in Virginia. Before You Say \u2018Yuck,\u2019 Wait.<\/i><\/a>,\u201d rejoicing in the fact that Virginia residents have been subjected to treated wastewater, not for agricultural or non-potable uses, but pumped into their drinking water source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, the region\u2019s sanitation system takes a million gallons of treated wastewater and pumps it back into the Potomac Aquifer, a major source of drinking water for the area. And there are plans to increase that to 100 million gallons in the coming years,\u201d <em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>The general concept is not new\u2014 sewage treatment facilities are a fixture of our society for a reason. And most of us can stomach the concept of treated sewer water being used for non-potable reasons like watering plants, putting out fires, or washing our cars. But many of us would draw the line at cooking with or drinking it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where <em>The New York Times <\/em>comes in. Rather than ask or event address questions about the practice, <em>The Times<\/em> simply wants to reassure you that this is just a necessary part of the fight against Climate Change and \u201cpopulation growth.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div><i>&#8220;Homes and industries in the area draw around 155 million gallons of groundwater each day. Natural replenishment is much slower in confined aquifers like the Potomac, where layers of impermeable clays and rocks beneath the surface make it hard for rainwater to seep back into the ground.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Even if people stopped drawing groundwater today, it could still take thousands of years for the aquifer to refill, said Mark Bennett, who runs the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center for the United States Geological Survey.<\/i><br \/><i>Meanwhile, without enough water to help support the ground, underlying sediments fall in on themselves and the surface collapses.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The second big problem is that, as more and more freshwater gets pumped out, the loss of pressure has left the aquifer vulnerable to saltwater contamination as denser seawater encroaches underground.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>In low-lying coastal areas like Hampton Roads,\u00a0<b>climate change exacerbates that problem<\/b>. That\u2019s because as temperatures rise, ocean water expands in volume, causing sea levels to rise. And, glaciers on land\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/29\/climate\/greenland-ice-sea-levels.html\">melt at a faster rate<\/a>,\u00a0adding even more water to the oceans.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And so, this is the simple price you pay for driving that gas guzzler, eating too many cheeseburgers, or having too many children. Drink the poop, bigot.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em> highlights a \u201cgrowing acceptance\u201d of what it deceptively calls \u201cwastewater reuse projects\u201d (wastewater is often reused for non-drinking purposes), insisting that it is a practice that local governments will \u201chave to consider\u201d moving forward, \u201ceven in the regions that don\u2019t face prolonged drought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the country, cities and towns are increasingly turning to treated wastewater to augment their supplies of drinking water,\u201d reports <em>The Times<\/em>. \u201cThe number of drinking-water reuse projects has quadrupled over the past two decades,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/waterdams.nawihub.org\/submissions\/6\">according to data<\/a>\u00a0collected by the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a research program funded by the United States Department of Energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The practice is called \u201cpotable reuse,\u201d and while there is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/waterreuse\/water-reuse-action-plan\">ongoing push from the EPA for its implementation<\/a>, there is shockingly little research into its safety.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6779056\/\">2018 review<\/a>\u00a0(co-authored by EPA National Program Leader for Water Reuse Dr. Sharon Nappier) published in\u00a0<i>Current Environmental Health Reports<\/i>\u00a0conceded that \u201cOverall, there have been relatively few health-based studies evaluating the microbial risks associated with potable reuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe few published epidemiology studies to-date have not identified any patterns of illness related to ongoing water reuse projects however many lacked sufficient power to detect such low level adverse health effects,\u201d the report notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe compilation of information presented here highlights the need to carefully consider water treatment choices when wastewater is a component of the drinking water supply,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Report co-author Nappier was part of a team that developed the EPA\u2019s National\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6779056\/\">Water Reuse Action Plan<\/a>\u00a0(WRAP), released late February 2020, which asserts that \u201cThe changing climate is challenging many communities to meet their long-term water needs,\u201d and touts that \u201creuse of treated wastewater and stormwater\u201d for all uses, including potable, \u201ccan be more reliable than traditional raw water sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capacity to incorporate water reuse into a community\u2019s water portfolio can provide resilience against climate-induced impacts,&#8221; the EPA boasts.<\/p>\n<p>While plenty of guidelines exist for potable reuse from institutions like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789241512770\">World Health Organization<\/a>, much of the available research on the subject is funded by the EPA itself, or focuses on things like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0043135422001610\">implementation status<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0043135418306274\">influencing public attitudes<\/a>\u00a0toward the practice. When studies\u00a0<i>do<\/i>\u00a0address safety, they typically focus on means of getting treated wastewater to a level of cleanliness that meets approved \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/07900627.2015.1099520\">drinking water<\/a>\u201d standards, rather than potential unforeseen consequences of the innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Nappier\u2019s, many studies simply conclude that more information and investigation is needed\u2013 like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/tox.20172\">this one<\/a>\u00a0from 2006, that raises the important question of whether the potential for concentrated levels of endocrine disruptors in reused water systems should be of concern.<\/p>\n<p><em>To Tell the Truth:<\/em> Perhaps poop water is better for us than spring water\u2014 I don\u2019t know. But I am not prepared to take the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 word for it. Especially considering that its strongest argument is that the practice is an \u201cincreasingly common strategy,&#8221; presented with a side of climate alarmism and a quote from a Berkeley Professor that insists \u201cIt is now necessary for us to consider options that would, in previous generations, be considered unthinkable,\u201d in order to save the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Tell the Truth\u00a0is Human Events News\u2019 press analysis series. 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