White hose and black tank flush?
Just to be clear I have two separate hoses, a white water hose for providing potable water to the camper and a regular green hose for flushing the black water tank. I hear (and read) people all the t...
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2012Coleman wrote:
I'll try to explain it in the simplest terms. Humans are not immune to all the bacteria that lives in their gut and intestines. These don't make you sick because they cannot make it through to the lining of your intestines/bowels into your bloodstream. You don't have immunity to bacteria in your stomach - your immune system is in the blood - the two never come in contact with each other.
So how does it enter your blood stream you might ask? same way cold germs are spread - contact with mucous membranes - eyes, nose, open cuts. Do you floss your teeth every day? No? Gums bleeding?
Now you are certainly entitled to come into contact with the stuff that's been fermenting in your tanks if you like - heck save some clean water and take a bath in it. Serve it with grilled cheese. I don't know about wastewater workers but the statement that they come into contact with waste water and then eat lunch is not plausible.
I have significant background here. I won't argue about it on an internet forum. Do what makes you feel good.
Good luck.
Unless you continually sterilize your buttock regions, I guarantee you transfer some of those germs to your mucus membranes and other points of entry at least on the cellualar level.
And note I said "sterilize" not "sanitize". That means killing every last microbe present. Since the system isn't truely sealed, you would have to do that on pretty much a continual basis.
While it's been a few years since I've worked with waste water treatment systems, I don't think it's changed that much. A public sewage plant is far more risky because you have typically have thousands of unknown people depositing thier germs. Reality is while they keep contact to a minimum and they wash thier hands before having lunch, they come into pretty regualar contact.
Nice use of reductio ad absurdum. I usually see that as a clear sign that you don't have facts to back you up and have lost the debate. No one suggested drinking raw sewage. This was the stray bacteria that makes it back upstream past a leaky check valve.
