Tampa City Councilman Charlie Miranda wants us to drink shit
June 25, 2009 at 8:35 am by Catherine Robinson
By Catherine Durkin Robinson
PoHo contributor,“feminist mother of twins” and a political blogger, working under the title Out in Left Field
Charlie Miranda has come up with a plan to turn hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into drinking water. All in the name of self-sufficiency.
Yes, we are in the middle of a drought. But we aren’t desperate:
In 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a study of the treated wastewater from the city’s Howard F. Curren Wastewater Treatment Plant and found 27 different kinds of micropollutants in the recycled water even after it passed through a filtration process.
A plan to punish South Tampa homeowners who refuse to use reclaimed water on their lawns is the way to go.
That’s right, let’s go after Buffy and Thurston Howell III.
But if we’re having a hard time getting people to use this water on grass, imagine the trouble with getting them to put it into their bodies.
Would you drink it?
Retreated water contains nitrogen, steroids, antibiotics … and shit.
Is this the best that Miranda can do?
Tell Charlie Miranda that if he can’t come up with a better plan, we’ll elect someone who will.
