Articles for Recycled Water

Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water
1 month, 1 week ago

Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water

LA Times  

Los Angeles will soon begin building a $740-million project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water in the San Fernando Valley, expanding the city’s local water supply in an effort to prepare for worsening droughts compounded by climate change. Through this project, he said, the city will start using recycled water as a “new source of sustainable, drought-proof drinking water …

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Drought-prone California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water
1 year ago

Drought-prone California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: An ice skating rink near Disneyland, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the Central Valley. California regulators on Tuesday approved new rules to let water agencies recycle wastewater and put it right back into the pipes that carry drinking …

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California prepares to transform sewage into pure drinking water under new rules
1 year ago

California prepares to transform sewage into pure drinking water under new rules

LA Times  

California is set to adopt regulations that will allow for sewage to be extensively treated, transformed into pure drinking water and delivered directly to people’s taps. The regulations will enable what’s known as “direct potable reuse,” putting highly treated water straight into the drinking-water system or mixing it with other supplies. “We wanted to absolutely make sure that we put …

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Plans to 'drought-proof' Kalgoorlie-Boulder as five months of water restrictions end
1 year, 5 months ago

Plans to 'drought-proof' Kalgoorlie-Boulder as five months of water restrictions end

ABC  

Kalgoorlie-Boulder's mayor says plans to "drought-proof" the historic WA mining city are progressing, following a decision to lift water restrictions imposed in February when local storage dams almost ran dry. Key points: The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder imposed level 5 water restrictions in February when its dams almost ran dry Kalgoorlie-Boulder's drinking water is supplied by the 566km-long Golden Pipeline, which …

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Los Angeles could soon put recycled water directly in your tap. It’s not ‘toilet to tap’
2 years, 5 months ago

Los Angeles could soon put recycled water directly in your tap. It’s not ‘toilet to tap’

LA Times  

Trenton Guinta, left, and Bert Mantilla Jr. work at the filtration plant at the Water Replenishment District’s facility at Albert Robles Center in Pico Rivera. The city of Los Angeles and agencies across Southern California are looking into what’s known as “direct potable reuse,” which means putting purified recycled water directly back into our drinking water systems. Water recycling experts …

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Grow food in small spaces with fish poop and recycled water
2 years, 5 months ago

Grow food in small spaces with fish poop and recycled water

LA Times  

Jordan Karambelas reaches for fish in the two-tiered aquaponics system she made from redwood in the courtyard at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach. If your yard is tiny, or even just a balcony, Jordan Karambelas has a suggestion for growing food organically: a good-looking aquaponics system that uses recycled water enriched by fish poop to irrigate vegetables planted …

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Tear out your lawn, check. Drought-tolerant plants, check. Next up: recycled water
2 years, 6 months ago

Tear out your lawn, check. Drought-tolerant plants, check. Next up: recycled water

LA Times  

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. “We’re basically looking at aridification and flood.” At a minimum, this means we should be installing gutters on our roofs, permeable walks and driveways around our homes and storage tanks in our yards — not barrels, because they’re not big enough to hold the water that pours off a roof in a …

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What you need to know about Singapore’s beer made out of urine
2 years, 6 months ago

What you need to know about Singapore’s beer made out of urine

Firstpost  

A brewery in Singapore has taken the message of being environment friendly to another level by turning urine and sewage into alcoholic beverages A brewery in Singapore has taken the message of being environment friendly to another level by turning urine and sewage into alcoholic beverages. Currently advertised at “the greenest beer”, NEWBrew is made out of a liquid that …

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Patrols, fines, altered landscapes: How severe SoCal water restrictions will roll out
2 years, 7 months ago

Patrols, fines, altered landscapes: How severe SoCal water restrictions will roll out

LA Times  

More than a week after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced its harshest-ever water restrictions for millions of residents across the region, several of the affected water agencies are offering a preview of how life will change throughout Southland when the rules kick in June 1. About two-thirds of the IEUA’s water comes from local supplies — including …

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No longer the city of gardens! How we can stop our cities and towns from going the Bangalore way
2 years, 8 months ago

No longer the city of gardens! How we can stop our cities and towns from going the Bangalore way

Firstpost  

Currently, only 30 per cent of India’s wastewater is recycled. State or Central government agencies that fund the ULBs for building water and sanitation infrastructure to service urban growth can introduce smart rules when approving plans for new growth areas in the form of conditions for allocating zones for locating facilities for decentralised wastewater treatment and recycling. Similarly, ULBs that …

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L.A. water recycling imperiled after beach sewage spill, hurting drought conservation
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. water recycling imperiled after beach sewage spill, hurting drought conservation

LA Times  

Timeyin Dafeta, executive manager of the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, speaks to reporters recently during a tour of the plant. Problems at a Los Angeles sewage treatment plant that caused a massive spill into Santa Monica Bay last month have severely reduced the region’s water recycling ability, forcing officials to divert millions of gallons of clean drinking water at a …

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Climate change refugees who fled to Northwest still face impacts
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate change refugees who fled to Northwest still face impacts

CNN  

CNN — Selina Neirok Leem grew up listening to the Pacific Ocean at her home in the Marshall Islands. “We’ve unfortunately been dealing with this longer than many of our mainland counterparts.” The Pacific Northwest heat wave “would have been virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis published Wednesday in which more than two dozen scientists concluded …

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Portland, Oregon, sets high-temperature record and Seattle comes close
3 years, 5 months ago

Portland, Oregon, sets high-temperature record and Seattle comes close

CNN  

CNN — The Pacific Northwest is baking in a record-breaking heat wave, with an all-time high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit reported Saturday in Portland, Oregon. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images The exposed lake bed of the San Gabriel Reservoir is seen near Azusa, California, on June 29. Mario Tama/Getty Images This aerial photo shows the San Gabriel River and the exposed lake …

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