LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – Today, city officials indicated that Los Angeles may be running out of sources for drinking water. In response to this impending catastrophe, Los Angeles officials have proposed a sensible and appealing measure that would entail recycling wastewater.
This innovative plan would take place over the next several years, and would provide a great deal of extra water, since Los Angelinos are noted for going potty a lot.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s epiphany won’t be cheap, though. It is estimated that the recycling plan would cost up to $2 billion and seriously cramp the style of a lot of people. For example, residents would be urged to wear the same clothes for several days in a row without washing them, and new restrictions would be placed on how often citizens could run their sprinklers or clean their happening automobiles.
“This is a great idea for the city of Los Angeles,” said Department of Water and Power General Manager David Nahai. “I think a lot of other cities will be quick to jump on the waste water recycling bandwagon with us as soon as they get over their phobias about bubonic plague and other possible illnesses.”
Many California cities face the same challenges, including Long Beach, who have already implemented a measure to arrest and fine people for drinking more than 8 oz. of water a day. Orange County and other Southern California governments are also recycling treated sewage water back into the drinking supply, citing that it “tastes yummy” and “has many health benefits for young and old alike”.
Los Angeles’ proposal would invest in projects to collect and store rainwater, in addition to the re-use of treated human waste. This effort would cost about $1 billion dollars–a bargain for poop water in today’s stringent economy.
A similar system was approved and built in the 1990s, during the record drought when people were publicly branded for using water, but it was abandoned after critics labeled it “Crap on Tap”.
“Today is a brand new day for recycling excrement and urine into drinking water,” he said. “We have shiny new machines that will make everything all better, so you don’t have to worry about the unpleasant taste of someone’s enema juice when you take a shower. It’s going to be cool, you’ll see!”
Skeptics remain unconvinced, however, bitterly clinging to their outmoded ideas of not drinking fecal-infested water. “This idea is stupid,” said Sterling Smith, president of Homeowners of Encino. “What makes them think anyone will go for this idiocy in here? Oh, yeah! Sorry about that. I thought I was in Utah for a second.”
But Helga Hammockhead, an Encino Neighborhood Council member and avid lever-yanker at the city’s “water reclamation plant’, said recycling is OK because lots of other people have been doing it for years.
“The Earth isn’t making any more water,” Hammockhead sniveled. “The stuff we drink today is basically the piss of the dinosaurs trillions of years ago, and you don’t see anyone balking about that, do you? Besides, recycling our waste will make the millions of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County feel more at home and isn’t that what America is all about?”
M. T. Coffin, another local council member who think about water a lot, said the plan misses the larger picture: eliminating excess population.
“We simply have too many people!” whined Coffin. “We need to start shooting some of the folks we have. That way, there will be more water for the rest of us! This is an environmental issue and, as an avid treehumper, I recommend wholesale annihilation of excess water users!”
Los Angeles’ mayor reaffirmed the coolness of his plan by saying “For too long we’ve been furnishing the citizens of Los Angeles and environs with clean, healthy water. It’s time for us to stop this ridiculous excess and start drinking our own poop. Think of those less fortunate communities who don’t have such a cumbersome and diverse population making poop for them. It would be a shame to waste this valuable resource in the name of health and sanitation. Shame on us!”
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