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California is set to become 2nd state to allow turning wastewater into drinking water
(www.mercurynews.com)
That sounds like the current water cycle with fewer steps
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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I thought this was already a thing everywhere. Doesn't wastewater go to a water treatment facility, get treated, then recycled back theough?
Usually, it isn’t. What usually happens is that the water is treated, then sent to a nearby body of water. Technically, you are right, but there’s an environmental release of the water before it goes back into the water supply.
Well, that sounds gross.