Desperation…,San Diego forced to recycle SEWAGE into drinking water due to devastating drought

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San Diego forced to recycle SEWAGE into drinking water due to devastating drought

The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass a plan to spend $2.5billion on recycling waste water to drinking water
The entire state of California is experiencing severe drought, but water supplies are especially short at the end of the pipeline in San Diego
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Acknowledging California’s parched new reality, the city of San Diego has embraced a once-toxic idea: turning sewer water into drinking water.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to advance a $2.5billion plan to recycle wastewater, the latest example of how California cities are looking for new supplies amid a severe drought.
Each of the nine council members effusively praised the effort before the vote as a way to make San Diego less dependent on imported water and insulated from drought.
‘We’re at the end of the pipeline,’ said Councilman Scott Sherman. ‘We have a real problem getting water down here.’
The San Diego City Council voted unaimously to support a $2.5billion plan to recycle waste water to drinking water, to address record-low water shortages in the southern California city. Above, a view of the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant where sewer water is decontaminated

Recycling: The San Diego City Council voted unanimously to support a $2.5billion plan to recycle waste water to drinking water. The Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant, pictured, will decontaminate the water
Such recycling, called toilet-to-tap by critics, has suffered an image problem that industry insiders call ‘the yuck factor.’
San Diego, a city of 1.4million people that imports 85 per cent of its water from the Colorado River and Northern California, has slowly warmed to the idea. A 2012 survey by the San Diego County Water Authority showed that nearly three of four residents favored turning wastewater into drinking water, a major shift from one of four in a 2005 survey.
‘The drought puts a finer point on why this is so necessary,’ Mayor Kevin Faulconer said. ‘Droughts are unfortunately a way of life in California, so we have to be prepared. This helps us to control our own destiny.’
The plan calls to initially recycle 15million gallons by 2023 and 83million gallons a day by 2035, about one-third of the city’s water supply. It enjoys broad support from business groups and environmental advocates……MORE HERE