Posted on 07/12/2023 6:42:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
California’s State Water Resources Control Board has proposed new regulations allowing toilet wastewater to be turned into drinking water.
The new “toilet-to-tap” program aims to tackle the state’s water shortages.
In a statement, the board said:
[T]he State Water Resources Control Board announced today proposed regulations that would allow for water systems to add wastewater that has been treated to levels meeting or exceeding all drinking water standards to their potable supplies. The process, known as direct potable reuse, will enable systems to generate a climate-resilient water source while reducing the amount of wastewater they release to rivers and the ocean.
Direct potable reuse relies entirely on immediate, multi-barrier treatment that can recycle wastewater to drinking water standards in a matter of hours.
This contrasts to the method currently being deployed in major projects launched throughout the state, called indirect potable reuse, which further improves treated wastewater over time through groundwater recharge or dilution with surface water.
While no formal direct potable reuse projects can be initiated in California until the regulations are adopted, water agencies in Santa Clara, San Diego, and the city of Los Angeles have launched pilot projects in recent years.
As Breitbart reported:
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has partnered with the Sanitation Districts in a new project to test the feasibility of treating and reusing a large percentage of the county’s water currently discharged to sea.
I was the first reporter to be allowed a look at a new demonstration project called the Advanced Purification Center, which, when operational, could result in a full-scale recycled water plant that would purify up to 150 million of the 250 million gallons per day that flow through the [Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in Los Angeles, or JWPCP].
The test facility, where construction began in 2017, will be completed later in 2019. It will purify about half a million gallons of water from JWPCP per day, using a special process that first uses microorganisms to remove ammonia and other nitrogen compounds from the water; then uses advanced filters to remove microorganisms and solids; and finally uses [reverse osmosis] membranes to purify the water, just as in a desalination plant.
The process is less expensive and less energy-intensive than desalination because the treated water, while too salty for immediate use, is only about a tenth as salty as seawater.
Once proven, the plant could be expanded — and, officials told me, could be operational in 11 years if all went as planned and the state approved all of the necessary permits.
The new regulations could be approved by the end of the year.
W.C. Fields — ‘I don’t drink water. Fish F*** in it.’
Absolutely can work.
Can these people build it and run it effectively for the foreseeable future without problems?
Unlikely.
He better not drink booze ...
That’s mostly water, and the rest is yeast-poop.
California is lost. The people there have been so indoctrinated that they will vote Democrat, regardless of the idiotic and destructive things that Dem politicians do to them.
Aye, now that's the real question. It's not the process ... it's the people running the process.
California has been in the toilet for a long time. Soaking in it and drinking the contents is nothing new for them.
The toilets should be clean.
Seems like everybody there does their business in the streets......................
would purify up to 150 million of the 250 million gallons per day
first uses microorganisms to remove ammonia and other nitrogen compounds from the water;
and only 1/10 as salty as sea water
= = =
So, now there is 100 million gallons per day, with 250 million gallons worth of poop in it.
Where are they putting this poop, who is cleaning the filters, etc.
And how about those poor little microorganism, now loaded with that nasty nitrogen?
And only 1/10 as salty as sea water, so we can dilute it down with good water, and you can get used to it. And just what ‘salt’ is in the water?
They don’t even need to ‘vote’ any more.
The Dems will do that for them....................
Fertilizer.....................
Guess what? All the water in the world was someone’s toilet water once upon a time.
Same place they're putting it now. The effluent from a modern wastewater treatment plant is nearly drinkable, and generally cleaner than the body of water into which it is discharged.
“Step 1: SOYLENT Blue.”
Which step is SOYLENT Yellow?
That water you drank this morning in your coffee might have one been pissed out by a Mongol warrior........................
How much water does a Aircraft carrier need to carry for the 5000 plus sailors? None! Why because they convert sea water to fresh water (this is the same with cruise ships). Too bad California is not next to a large body of water that they could use the same technology for their three largest urban areas (San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco).
Water, water everywhere and the woke drink sewer water.
Rain water has been evaporated, not filtered. That being said, it contains a condensation nucleus (dust, sulfuric acid, whatever). And is not fluoridated, so the same precautions as with well water apply.
Guess desalination plants are to complicated for California to understand.
Had to look twice. At first I thought this was from The Bee.
Glad it’s CA and not here.
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