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I just found out that LA doesn't reuse their wastewater. Here this whole time they have been talking about things like building a pipeline from the Great Lakes
by TheGirondin 10y ago
I just found out that LA doesn't reuse their wastewater.
Here this whole time they have been talking about things like building a pipeline from the Great Lakes and they don't even treat and reuse.
- beamatronic 10y agoI believe they have all of the purple pipe infrastructure in place, and they currently dump the "output" into an aquifer which is not directly tapped [1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/recycled-drinking-water-getting-past-the-yuck-factor.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/recycled-drinking-...
- malyk 10y agoThere was a huge campaign against "toilet water" when it was proposed.
- hueving 10y agoYeah, I recall the provocative slogan "ass to glass" being passed around.
- dubyah 10y agoHow do people even claim that? http://www.lacsd.org/waterreuse/ http://www.lacsd.org/waterreuse/ Yes, there is no potable reuse at the moment because their initial plant opened during an election year & valley secession movement, but a pilot plant for indirect potable reuse is in the works and current reclamation efforts still yielded 35.4% of total county sanitation districts effluent per FY 2014-2015.