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Water recycling stirs policy debate in California

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on March 24, 2008 at 10:25 pm

From PBS’s Online News Hour:

Finally tonight, a very different way of dealing with water shortages in Southern California. NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles reports.

JEFFREY KAYE, NewsHour Correspondent: In Orange County, California, officials thought their best chance for getting more water for the area’s three million residents was going down the drain, billions of gallons of wastewater going to waste.

Then, local water and sanitation officials bought into an idea: turning that wastewater into clean drinking water.

MIKE MARKUS, Orange County Water District: This project is extremely important today, because the southland is facing a water crisis.

JEFFREY KAYE: Mike Markus is general manager of the Orange County Water District. He oversaw the design and construction of a recently opened water purification plant, the largest of its kind in the world.

MIKE MARKUS: It’s important that we develop new water supplies locally so that we can help somewhat drought-proof this area. And that’s exactly what this project does: It gives us a water supply that we have control over that will provide enough water for a half-million people in northern and central Orange County.

Read the rest of this story from PBS’s Online News Hour (or listen, if you’d prefer) by clicking here.

March 24, 2008 · Filed Under Recycled Water

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