Texas Town Turns to Urine Recycling

TEXAS - The thought of drinking your own urine might be disgusting to some people, but one Texas town thinks it might be the best option in the face of one of the state's worst droughts ever.
Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced by the town's 27,000 residents, according to Discovery News. Sewage that is typically fed into a creek will be captured by a plant the district has just broken ground on.
"We're taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water," district manager John Grant told Discovery News.
While the system will be recycling residents' urine along with other components of their waste, it's not nearly as direct as NASA's urine recycling system, according to Space.com. On the last shuttle mission, astronauts experimented with a Forward Osmosis Bag that processed astronauts' urine and sweat, creating potable water in microgravity.
When asked about that process, Grant told Discovery News, "I don't think I could sell that one."
However, with the continued drought in Texas, who knows what measures locals may have to resort to. Reuters has reported that the triple-digit heatwave that's gripping much of the U.S. has been anchored in Texas and has limited the state to just 40 percent of its normal rainfall for this time of year.

Is Texas some sort of Third World Country or something? I'll tell you right now, if it came down to my drinking some concoction made up of my own shit and piss or me kicking the bucket, I'm picking death 110 times out of a 100. There's just absolutely no way you're convincing me that I would be better off to making my own version of 2 Girls 1 Cup as opposed to dying from dehydration. Can't you just go to the store and by a bottle of Fiji or something?

And if you need to shower, just go take a bath in the lake, it's not that bad. Hell, my only form of bathing on the weekends for the past month has been slopping some shampoo and soap on while I've been floating in the lake and bonging Miller Lites. You can't convince me that taking a lake bath is worse than taking a shower in recycled shit and piss.