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Every community has a Waste Water Treatment plant/facility. When you flush a toilet, waste goes through pipes in the house. Those pipes lead to either city sewer pipes, or if not hooked to the city, to a private septic tank on each person's property. The waste plant collects sewer water from rain runoff and from industries too. The waste water is treated, and returned as pure water plus the chemicals used to make it pure(r). We again use that purified water for bathing, drinking, cooking, washing clothes, etc. If in a septic tank, chemicals can be added to break down the waste but eventually, the tank needs emptied. The home owner hires a waste company to pump out the septic tank, and use of the toilet begins again.

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