- Like people have pooped in the water,
and they cleaned it out and all that stuff, like our poop?
Hmmm, that's cool.
Thanks for giving me poop water.
- We're here at the Orange County Water District
Ground Water Replenishment System.
This facility takes sewer water and treats it
to beyond drinking water quality standards.
The water comes in from the sewage treatment plant
and we treat it through microfiltration
to kind of remove the larger particles,
then it'll move on to...
- The second treatment step, Reverse Osmosis.
This removes everything down to distilled level quality,
and there's still one more treatment step.
This is basically just a redundant step
to make sure we removed anything
that's gotten through the first two steps,
which we don't think will happen.
- Tastes like water.
- I would guess this one came from the tap.
- It's water.
That's the good stuff.
- One of these waters was once sewage.
- Oh my god!
- Oh that's cute.
- Was it B?
- I'll go with B, 'cause it tastes a little funky.
- Hmmm, I think B was once sewage water.
- It was C.
- Oh, interesting.
- Oh my god, I can't believe that.
It tastes good!
Like, if I had to guess I would say it was Fiji.
- 10 times out of 10 I would rather drink sewage water
over L.A. tap water.
It's great.
That's weird.
That's really, really weird.
- I don't know what I'm swishing around for.
I don't know, trying to get a diaper or something in there.
That's awesome.
- I don't care.
It's poop water!
I know what's been in there, even if it's all gone.