SpaceX seeks permission to dump treated wastewater into Texas bay
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It’s pretty standard to put treated wastewater back into bodies of water.
I once talked to a water activist that made me realize water molecules going through your house are typically recycled back into a river through a treatment process. Also - the further you leave Downstream, the more those water molecules have been used. I had never really thought about it that way before.
The article headline is "technically" correct because ANY water that has come from any pipe work/tanks that isn't rain from the sky is "treated wastewater" by weird government definition.
The water has no known pollutants in it. It's clean drinking water pumped through pipes and splashing on to the ground and picking up whatever dirt is on the ground.
There can be a perceived difference between industrial chemical wastewater and household wastewater and that’s what I was getting at. One is far riskier for a “spill” accident, and more rigorous prevention measures may need to be discussed upfront. The article didn’t differentiate which it’s going to be.
I feel like by not differentiating, the article may be somewhat sensationalized. Without knowing which it is, I’m left wondering.
> While the contaminants are removed from the wastewater, Port Isabel City Manager Jared Hockema told KRGV he's concerned freshwater added as wastewater will throw off the salt balance of the bay.
I'm no expert, but seems like a fine question to ask before doing it.
I mean this truly: stop asking for public input.
This is one of the biggest problems in America, responsible for soaring housing costs, preventing us from making quicker progress on climate change, it is among the reason we have horrible traffic, it's reducing all of our incomes, and in general is making life in the West suck.
The public has no idea at all. There is no scenario where public input is useful, outside of maybe a jury.
We've got to rollback this stuff. The public should not be consulted on anything at all.
Think about who had the permission to vote, when voting was first deemed as a way to impact the world.
'the public' means 'americans' which means 'the norms of white people'. Colonialism, supremacy, violence, the carceral state. (Pardon the redundancy)
American traffic planners use 'the public' has justification for the continued oppression of poor and minority people, via highways and refusal of services that would actually help the real public.
Texas still has in its municipal governments and public populations, enough people that are disappointed by the end of slavery, that often enough the political will is indistinguishable from that of slaveholders.
It's a feature, not a bug.
I didn’t even need to click the article to already know this was the case. Let’s see…
Port Isabel is on the gulf. So the issue is dumping 200,000 gallons of clean fresh water into the gulf and seeing if it would change the salt levels.
That’s 200,000 gallons into… what, a trillion (an educated guess)?
Ok, I’ll file this under politics.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/conservation/txgems/s...
There are already streams coming in with brackish water.
We’re talking about 10 swimming pools worth.
Fair enough, but I’m still filing under rage bait politics.