$2 billion today.
Wonder if they'll just have one bidder for the project?
And, will it be a "cost-plus" contract?
Si se puede!
Is there an alternative?
What is the realistic alternative?
After you Mr. Mayor. Well, after you.
Doesn’t Orange County already do this??? They inject it back into the aquifer to prevent saltwater penetration into the water supply I believe.
“Honey! This water tastes like s**t!”
I have a friend of mine who works for a muncipal water department. He told me that all waste water, whether it comes from the sink or toilet, is cleaned, purified, and returned to the water supply. Eventually, the same water will be used again, taken into the water system, treated and purified, and sent to our homes.
John and Ken are going to have sooo much fun with this today.
LOL!!!!
Already doing this in Orange County.
I thought only the French used that stuff.
This goes along with his “We clean your toilets speech.”
And this is after it’s already been processed in San Francisco.
There isn’t enough money in the WORLD for me to drink that water unless I’m dying...literally DYING.
A few years ago, LA County was considering injecting treated waste water into the aquifer in the San Gabriel Valley which is east of Los Angeles. Well, Miller Brewing Co. has a brewery in Irwindale on the north end of that valley. Miller told the county it would close the brewery if the county started using treated waste water. That stopped that one.
I think they should save their money and just drink their urine.
Toilet to tap is a faalse description. Orange County already uses this technique, and they pour the water into the aquifer. By the time it reaches the customer’s tap, it has been sitting in the ground for quite some time.
Plus there’s the fact that this stuff is filtered so highly that there’s nothing in it. No viruses, no microscopic shreds of toilet paper, nothing. It’s taste is described as being more like bottled water than tap water.
This is a good idea, and probably inevitable. The Colorado River is about 100% utilized now; there is no more water for growing cities in the southwest.
Desalinization of seawater is also a good idea, but it is currently more expensive than recycling wastewater.
Seems fitting. Los Angeles is now a 3rd World toilet.
Cities like Milwauki have been doing essentially this same thing since the turn of the last century. The process and technology is proven.
The treated waste water, which is 99.99% pure get pumped into lake Michigan, mixed with the lake water, then the lake water is pumped out and treated for drinking.
The by-product is one of the best fertilizers there is, Milorganite.