This should draw more libtards to California

[BurfordTJustice]

California to add recycled sewer water to the state reservoirs

California's water regulation agency approved new measures Tuesday that will allow recycled water - water that once ran through the sewers - to be added to the state's reservoirs, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The new rules are expected to be implemented by 2023.

"This is a type of indirect potable use - it's not treated recycle water that goes directly to someone's house," said Miryam Barajas at the Water Board. "It's highly treated."

She says the new regulations could potentially affect all 36 of California's reservoirs that serve as the main source of the state's municipal drinking water. The regulations are the result of a two-year public review process in which an expert panel decided that the regulations were necessary for public health and to supplement existing drinking water supplies with recycled water.

San Diego is at the forefront of a sewer-to-reservoir operation that the rest of the state will likely follow.

The board is working to implement "direct potable reuse" - a process by which treated recycled water is added directly into a drinking water system.

[Mickey Moose]

I've always wondered how they treat all the sewer water at a place like Disney World.  Are tourists basically drinking each others recycled urine?

[gfretwell]

They dump their sewer water into the Kissimmee river and it ends up in lake Okeechobee.

[Dan Espen]

Smells like BS so I looked it up:

The treatment system that Reedy Creek employs is so effective that the resulting water is actually safe to drink, having been treated to advanced levels that exceed state and federal requirements. But instead of serving it up to customers, Disney instead puts it to a number of other uses.

Actually I have no problem drinking purified water coming out of a waste treatment system. Suitably treated, the water is entirely safe. Water coming directly out of "nature" has plenty of animal waste in it anyway.

There's no getting around it, what goes around comes around. ALL the water on this planet has already been peed in.

[rbowman]

Not if it is the product of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen. Arguably the hydrogen and oxygen atoms may be slightly used but the molecule is a virgin.

[Ali Gaiter]

[Bob]

Virgin Water?  You just invented the next bottled water product to hit America's supermarket shelves.

[gfretwell]

Most of it gets distilled and falls back as rain tho. I agree Reedy Creek runs the water through a modern sewer plant but any water from Orlando, in general, ends up in the Kissimmee river along with all the homes and farms along the way.

[Tekkie®]

[e-mail] posted for all of us...

That is why the farmers want dried sewage sludge for their fields.