Posted on 04/18/2015 12:20:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
California Takes Serious Look at 'Toilet to Tap' Tech
BY JEFF DANIELS As the California drought worsens, some communities such as Orange County, San Diego and the Silicon Valley are expanding water recycling programs, and support for "toilet to tap" programs appears to be growing from a once-squeamish public.
"Because a lot of communities are running out of water, they sort of have to explore all their options," said Janny Choy, research analyst with Water in the West, a program of the Stanford Woods Institute and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. "Recycled water is certainly one piece of the puzzle, but it's probably not going to be the answer to solve everybody's problem."
The Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, located in San Jose, began operations last year and produces up to 8 million gallons per day of purified water from wastewater (Tweet This). The facility was built at a cost of $72 million in a partnership between the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) and the city of San Jose. The facility treats wastewater that would otherwise go into the San Francisco Bay for use as reclaimed water in irrigation, construction and industrial uses. They eventually hope to use some of the purified water to refill groundwater sources.
The Santa Clara County facility gets wastewater from the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara, and the goal had been to expand the recycled water to make up at least 10 percent of total county water demand by 2025. But due to the 4-year-old drought, the water agency is pushing its goals further: It's pursuing plans to expedite that goal by three years—to reach the 10 percent number by 2022—and partnering with other cities in the county to purity their water.
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Gov Jerry Brown “We take pride in drinking Brown water!”
How a bout ditch the high speed train to nowhere and and bring in sparkletts water
Gov Moonbeam, during his first term when there was also a long drought, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow.....if it’s brown, flush it down!”
Already doing this in Orange County....the water doesn’t go directly to tap water though.
The sewage is processed and purified, then pumped down into the local aquifer.
Don’t be squeamish about it....the water is so clean after the process, that they have to re-mineralize it before pumping it down....otherwise it would leach chemicals out of the concrete piping system and destroy it.
LOL.
Brown has presided over two droughts now?
We have trillions of gallons of water on the coast of California, and these pervs think recycling toilet water is the answer.
You just can’t make up how dumb these fools are.
That’s good. Is Moonbeam doing anything about setting up desalinization plants?
A pipeline could refill lakes and reservoirs daily and probably would not cost half of what the high speed train to no where is going to.
“Don’t be squeamish about it....the water is so clean after the process, that they have to re-mineralize it before pumping it down....otherwise it would leach chemicals out of the concrete piping system and destroy it.”
Those squeamish ones should be reminded that all water is re-cycled water, many, many times.
No....Moonbeam wants to spend $100+ BILLION on the great Brown Stain Train virtually no one will use.
Di Fi and Richard Blum are not available for comment.
That’s good. Is Moonbeam doing anything about setting up desalinization plants? That’s a lot of untapped salty sea water around the CA coasts......
Maybe we could all ship our brown water to California, in honor of Jerry Brown.
The PoopMobile.....
No. First, you have to set up the deStalinization plants.
Dont drink the yellow water.......
Eau de commode:
A pleasant little number from 2015 with a piquant nose ......
Diverting water right at the ocean seems like a pretty good idea. It just gauls me to see Southern California not take responsibility for it’s own water needs.
Israel gets over half it’s fresh water from desalinization.
If that small nation can do it, our nation should be able to.
I live here in Southern California, and it’s embarrassing to look this stupid.
At least Mrs. Zak and I are doing our part to help those poor libtards on the left coast!
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