They say that the U.K. is usually ahead of us in everything so if you want to know what’s to come, just look at the U.K.
Well, this time, it’s bad news and this looks like something that the Biden regime would love for us to do.
The chairman of the UK Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, has urged Britons to stop becoming “squeamish” about consuming sewage water.
Sir James, who has led the Environment Agency since 2015, claimed in a piece for The Sunday Times that even though drinking treated sewage water is “perfectly safe and healthy,” it is “unpopular” and “not something many people fancy.”
Following a summer of record-breaking heat, the UK is currently experiencing droughts, especially in England and Wales. He suggested that people need to “change the way they think about water” and “treat it as a precious resource, not a free good.”
He said that drinking water directly from sewage treatment facilities will help safeguard the UK’s water supply. In the UK, several “toilet-to-tap” systems are already being developed; by 2030, treated water might be re-injected into rivers, recovered farther downstream, and processed into potable water.
“We need to remember where [water] comes from: when we turn on the tap, what comes out started in a river, lake or aquifer,” Sir James wrote. “The more we take, the more we drain those sources and put stress on nature and wildlife.
He continued, “If we are going to get there, we are all going to have to think differently,” contending that future governments will need to show political will to push the policy through because it would not be popular.
Plans for such a system for London were originally made public by Thames Water in 2013, with predictions that it may be operational by 2025. Locals’ reactions, however, were less than positive. One said it was “a step too far” and that they “definitely” wouldn’t drink “chemically treated sewage.”
Sir James noted that people who were concerned about their water usage should restrict their usage in small ways, such as taking showers rather than baths and only running their dishwasher or washing machine at full capacity. Sir James stated in 2021 that the government should treat the “climate emergency” like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Due to the droughts, hosepipe bans and other restrictions have already been implemented in a number of English regions, with fines of up to £1,000 for violations. According to a Telegraph investigation, since the fines were implemented in 1991, no water utility has ever levied one.
I honestly would not trust our systems to efficiently process this water properly. They would give us all E. coli, I would suspect.