Order of the Bath

One of the news items on the radio this moring was a report by the Institution of Civil Engineers which said that to ease the water shortage in the South-East, water waste (sewage) should be processed to the standard of drinking water and re-enter the system.
Is this new? It was a common saying in London when I grew up that the Thames passed through five pairs of kidneys before it reached the sea.

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