I remember the City of Los Angeles trying to do that when I lived there 10+ years ago and opponents successfully blocked it by calling it "toilet to tap" as if piss and shit would literally come out of your faucets. Good for California.
Good ole toilet to tap pipeline, not as popular as the school to prison one.
Millions of people in the US are already getting treated wastewater when they get their water out of a river downstream from another town's treated wastewater discharge
I think the only difference with this proposal is that they "skip the middleman". The water is never released back into a natural watercourse.
But yes, I grew up in TX drinking water that had been returned to the Trinity post-treatment by locations north.
Consider New Orleans! They're drinking the wastewater of over half the country, as well as agricultural runoff
This seems fine? It's not as though the current reservoirs are fully enclosed or anything that would prevent animals from relieving themselves in the water. As long as the end product is clean who cares?
Neat, now go after Nestle
Edit: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article279490889.html
I’m glad science is starting to win out on this.
Neat. Still a drop in the bucket when all residential use is only about 10% of all water use in the state.
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