I love you North East Ohio Regional Sewer District
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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I still think it's an underappreciated wonder of science that we are able to take literal shit soup and turn it back into drinking water again.
Sorry, I have wastewater autism: direct potable reuse (turning sewage into drinking water) is super rare and they def don't do that at NEORSD.
Almost every time I give a tour someone says something like that and I have to explain sewage is treated and put back into the water body, then a different plant takes the water, treats it, and puts it in the water pipes. (Yes that's just for surface water, but same idea for septic/wells)
thanks, Shit Wizard 420!
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Hmm, could you theoretically connect the output of a sewage plant to the input of a drinking water treatment plant, or does the river/dilution/... play some sort of important role in the middle?
You can put the water plant at the end of the sewage plant for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater but yeah the water body does some of the treatment too.
thank you shit wizard, i just spent an hour on the EPA's website learning about wastewater treatment!
That's where they stick the flourine into the water. Don't be mislead by the color and smell, you should be drinking the soup. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, amirite?
but fr North East Ohio Regional Sewer District seems awesome, shame they're in Ohio.
They gotta cope with living in Ohio somehow