Thames Water, the company that provides drinking water for the city of London, has unveiled a new long-term strategy that will recycle sewage to provide drinking water for the entire population. The strategy looks to address the challenges the city will face in the next 25 years as the population the company serves grows from 9 million to 10.4 million by 2040. This will increase demand by between 230 and 340 million liters per day, with about 80 per cent of this rise expected in London.


As an added result, the population in London’s wastewater area is forecast to rise from 14 million to 16 million over the same period. This will put more pressure on Thames Water‘s sewage works and will increase the volume of sludge they will need to treat and recycle.

Unsurprisingly, this plan has not sat well with everyone, however as Simon Evans, a Thames Water spokesman said to The Guardian, “It’s all about making sure there is enough water to go around, now and in the future.”

Besides waste water recycling, Thames Water in the next 10 years will also be involved in fixing leaky pipes, installing water meters and encouraging people to get their 160 liters-a-day usage down to 150 liters, but after 2025, they believe more drastic measures will be needed. This could involve building new reservoirs, or transferring water from the Midlands, the north or parts of Wales, according to Evans.

Speaking to The Guardian, Dr Andrew Singer, a microbiologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology said, “If there is no further treatment of the sewage before they inject it into the rivers, that could have implications for things that live in the river. The drinking water facility would have to be aware that they are starting off with so much more sewage – the pharmaceuticals in sewage are quite resistant to breaking down, so they would have to work that much harder to make sure the drinking water doesn’t have these chemicals in it. It’s a problem that can be solved by throwing money at it. Whether the rivers are any better off for it, you can look at it two ways – the river will have more water in it, which is a good thing, but the water is going to be from sewage effluent and that’s more of an unknown.”

Thames Water are testing public opinion. "The fact we're having this conversation a good 15 years before this would even happen is a good thing because people would get used to it," says Evans. "It's all about public perception, that's the main hurdle here."

http://inhabitat.com/thames-water-to-transform-londons-sewage-into-drinking-water-for-entire-population/
http://greenalerts..com/2013/05/london-set-to-drink-recycled-sewage.html

Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargained for.

No be today, e start na.

@ billionaire LOL

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

It's called recycling. Here in DC Waste Water Mgmt, they do the same thing...

Science is life

Anyhow jaree

No matter what process it follows poo water na poo
I beg i no dey

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

junior broda abi you no get money to buy house there?

i tot they are doing it already

Dem go soon start to convert shyte a.k.a poo to food!lol

abatajjvii: No matter what process it follows poo water na poo
I beg i no dey

Damn right.

Then you better stop buying foreign made food/beverage/snack products, some of their water contents is recycled water.

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

Coming from you,i would say its a surprise.. I thought you were more ***ok forget***

Good thinking,when will my country even THINK

aaaaahhhh I wan vomit

what would they use to clean it ? Chlorine ?

dem tank dia gods say dia poo far difrnt frm ours if nt? ....

they should allow everyone build borehole like naija na. Abi na by force for government to provide water

Niger is blessed

Whatever i stl luv ma Well drinkable water

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

This is not new, my company has been treating sewage for almost a decade now.
although the treated water is always used for irrigation and other purposes other than drinking.

But the day you tell anyone that the water they use is treated sewage, most people will stop making use of the water.

I can't forget the drama when I told a housewife that the water that flows in her toilet is the same with the water she uses in her kitchen, she said the house was not built properly

make i here say nigeria man go drink am, abeg make dem 4get dat 1 caus if u try am, na die oooo

Billyonaire: Thought I could buy a holiday home in London, now am thinking calabar is better. Drinking shit water is not what I bargain for.

tnk God u wia tinkin cz Nigga,u cnt fit.so abeg ehn,stop day dreamin,abeg...shikenan.....buy houz 4 london*SMH*

U guyz are there talking,its not new,in Malaysia.USA etc recycle there water.I don't knw about others bt if u are a globe trotter u will notice dat water taste differently depending on d country.While if u go to Malaysia u will notice d colour of their tap water is strangely yellowish!

Is this news/new? We drink shite water where I live

onye ego: This is not new, my company has been treating sewage for almost a decade now.
although the treated water is always used for irrigation and other purposes other than drinking.

But the day you tell anyone that the water they use is treated sewage, most people will stop making use of the water.

I can't forget the drama when I told a housewife that the water that flows in her toilet is the same with the water she uses in her kitchen, she said the house was not built properly

Mr plumber, I hear you guys bang housewives a lot while doing your job.

Ogbodavies: Good thinking,when will my country even THINK

If I hear! I na u wan drink am

Water! Water! Everywhere! Yet not enough to drink!

We have one in Cyprus here... It's called Haspolate sewage water treatment plant