By Matt Vasilogambros and Kevin Hardy for Stateline.Broadcast version by Kathleen Shannon for California News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough to drink. “It tastes like water,” said Mehul Patel, executive director of operations for the Orange County Water District’s project, after taking a gulp from a clear plastic cup at the sampling station, as he stood outside the final purification process facility on a warm afternoon earlier this month. “It’s just like any other water, but it’s gone through a lot,” he said. ...
Huh, I was under the impression we already did this
My understanding is that most municipalities make the water safe enough to put back into the environment, but not to the point of making it potable.
We use it for irrigation but not drinking.
Some municipalities do I thought, fairly positive the town next to where I lived did that.