It doesn’t sound like a radical idea: Watering Golden Gate Park‘s meadows and bowers with treated wastewater.
But for a city that for 75 years has relied on a pristine water supply from the Sierra Nevada, it is.
Today, San Francisco‘s water utility will unveil a proposal for the city’s first large-scale water recycling project, an arc-shaped facility near Ocean Beach that would filter and disinfect 2 million gallons of sewer and storm water each day for use on 1,000 acres of San Francisco land.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BALU1F6JHN.DTL#ixzz0yrY6F5ZM
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Comment: This is a great idea. Government needs to make make sure the recycled water is given a proper legal framework, preventing it from being taken for political purposes.
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