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.
California has refused to approve desalination plants, but they will approve toilet water plants?
Besides, if the population of California is rising and so are the oceans, then why not draw on the ocean as a new source of drinking water? All that toilet water is doing is recycling the existing supply of water, which is in shortage in California.
-PJ
If reuse of municpal treated wast water is necessary, that water should go to agriculture, which would reduce how much cleam water from rivers and unerground sources is needed for agriculture. The plant and microbiome in land used for agriculture will futher filter and breakdown bad biologicals in the treated waste water.
FFS. Big deal. Astronauts do it.
The woke idiots have been drinking out of the toilet for years
it is not just a wacko conspiracy theory , many Water Treatment faility managers all across the US have been caught taking money from bottled water companies for making the tap water taste bad. Introducing treated sewage is a great marketing tool for the bottled water industry
thats how beer got invented, they were using hops and barley for filter media
Yes they do make some clean water but most of the time they can't keep up and just let it go through pipelines about a mile out, they dont tell you about that part , just the clear water they produce.
Sewage should be percolated through soil not introduced into the ocean.
I just watched that movie (Hot Fuzz), last week. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.
No Air Conditioning, no electricity...............
Not a single luxury.
We will all be Amish and like it.
That was playing in my head.................
There are a vast number of people in the USA using drugs-—both illegal drugs & prescribed drugs.
HOW much residue from those drugs is passed into the waste system???
30% 40% 50% MORE???
THERE CURRENTLY ARE NO FILTERS OR TREATMENT THAT CAN REMOVE THIS RESIDUE.
Also very disturbing: Telling people to FLUSH away any unused drugs they were prescribed.
There cannot be a good ending to this scheme.
Filtering it would defeat the purpose.
If they removed all the bcp’s then we wouldnt all vote democrat and have our periods at the same time.
Milwaukee Zoo sold ZOO POO for years as garden fertilizer.,
Dude. The state has an ocean for a boundary and plenty of valleys to store rain water. Maybe build dams and plants to convert salt water to fresh water. But noo. This is too obvious for some people.
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