From a blurb I read at the usual (hockey) source:
Ewww. I'm thinkin' this may affect attendance at Jets games if (a) the Jets intend to pull this stupid human trick and (b) GRAY ice? It also appears the Canadians are setting the pace for silly bureaucratic job titles. I mean... "Water Stewardship Minister?" C'mon.WINNIPEG - Manitoba hockey players, figure skaters and curlers could soon be among the first in Canada to play on ice made from recycled shower water.
The province is looking at a pilot project that would see one of Manitoba's largest arenas convert its shampoo and sweat-laced wastewater into ice skating rinks.
If the project is successful, the province says it would like to expand the concept to include all Manitoba skating as well as curling rinks.
Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick says Manitoba is the first province to look at recycling so-called grey water this way.
Environmentalists say it's a great way to reuse water, reduce costs for rinks and take pressure off the municipal system.
John Bennett, with the Sierra Club of Canada, says it doesn't make sense to use drinking water that could be served at the best table in the land to make skating rinks.
So turning sludgy water into ice recycles it? Exactly how does that work? On top of that, isn't there a finite amount that would be used for making the ice and even with zambonis it doesn't exactly seem to look like a massive amount of "recycling" to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat about when it melts?
I also wonder if the soaps and such would have an effect on the ice itself. It would probably have soft spots.
Liberals never seem to really think this stuff out very far or very deeply.
Anon raises some good points.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we'll soon have a "Water Stewardship Mister," too. That is, if we don't already have one.
I think it sounds sorta disgusting.
ReplyDeleteI feel like an alien in a strange land. The world (or a big slice of it anyway) has gone crazy.
ReplyDeleteI once had a college professor tell me that they had technology to recycle waste water to use as drinking water, but it freaks people out. "Gray" water is not sewer water and can be used again - especially if treated. So why not? It is not like someone is going to drink it.
ReplyDeleteGray water does get recycled... nature is funny that way. Water evaporates and all the nasty stuff gets gone.
ReplyDeleteCleaning gray water to make it drinkable is something that costs a good deal of energy, so how does that do anything for the environment other than give some meaningless talking points for the evironmental terrorists?
Liberals never seem to really think this stuff out very far or very deeply.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
That is, if we don't already have one.
Good point, Moogie. We doubtlessly have sumthin' equally ridiculous, even if we don't have a Water Steward.
Staci: I do too.
Andy: Yup. And I can't EVEN grok half this krep.
Lou: I seriously doubt this hare-brained proposal could stand up to a serious economic analysis. There ARE places where recycling water makes sense (submarines come to mind) and there are places where it doesn't.
Anon: I'm in your corner on this.