If I urinated and defecated into a jug of drinking water and then proceeded to quench my thirst from the jug, I would undoubtedly be considered crazy. If I invented an expensive technology to put my urine and feces into my drinking water, and then invented another expensive (and undependable) technology to make the same water fit to drink, I might be thought even crazier. It is not inconceivable that some psychiatrist would ask me knowingly why I wanted to mess up my drinking water in the first place.
The ‘sane’ solution, very likely, would be to have me urinate and defecate into a flush toilet, ...
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