>From Toilet to Tap: Waste Water Converted to Drinking Water in Southern California
Saturday , July 26, 2008 FC1 Would you drink your toilet water? If you live in Southern California, you might not have a choice. The Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District gave the green light this month to a $300,000 contract involving a treatment plant that converts waste water into purified drinking water and stores it in the San Gabriel Basin, according to The San Bernardino County Sun. It's a plan intended to protect area residents during droughts. "This will help us provide a high quality, local water supply to replace our lost imported water," Peter Rodriguez, spokesman for the water district, told the Sun. The plant, which would resemble a facility in Orange County, Calif., that opened in January, could have a price tag as high as $70 million, the Sun reported. Officials defend the cost as reasonable considering Southern California drought conditions and climate shifts, as well as the dip in the imported water supply. Similar systems have been implemented elsewhere in the state and country before. But convincing residents to drink treated sewage water isn't easy. In Orange County, the project met with some backlash. "This was not just an engineering feat, but a public-relations feat as well," Orange County Water District spokeswoman Gina DePinto told the Sun. "It was quite a challenge convincing the public that the water is safe to drink." Duh, 'ya think? Anyone like a tall glass of toilet water; it's been cleaned, really it has, honest? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
