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There goes the neighborhood!
The neighborhood watch program; is on high-alert, for farmers
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Yes, I think it is a sign of things to come.
One of the reasons why, when moving out of a big city in Florida, I decided nevertheless to stay in the state:
(Don’t spread it around too much – there’s more than enough people moving here as it is…)
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I was visiting a friend in Tucson AZ last week and the local paper front page news was the Arizona legislature passed a law legalizing the sale of homemade tamales to the public.
Next to that article was one announcing a new water plant to be built in Phoenix to process and recycle 60 million gallons of sewer water per year into potable drinking water, enough to supply 200,000 homes. Um, the law against selling homemade tamales to the public due to sanitation concerns was repealed in exchange for the public to drink sewer water? Duh…no wonder Kari Lake lost the governor’s race.
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The Japanese have been recycling sewer and other outflow water for decades; at least since the 1970’s that I know of. They are some of the healthiest people around, HOWEVER, they do not take the number or amount of medications that we do in The West, this is the major problem, as the purification systems cannot eliminate that residue.
The point was the ridiculous concept of protecting the public from homemade tamales then getting them to drink sewer water. Recycling of toilet water is not a big deal and has been done for years, overcoming the public’s perception using PR to have them drink it is funny.
Psychologists say the aversion is deeply held and difficult – but not impossible – to overcome. “The disgust comes from intuitive concepts of contagion,” says Dr. Carol Nemeroff of the University of South Maine, who has studied reactions to reclaimed water. “It is magical in nature, the same type of thinking that underlines voodoo practices.”