Water Treatment
Has ‘Toilet to Tap’ Reached the Tipping Point in North America?
Has ‘Toilet to Tap’ Reached the Tipping Point in North America? LIMITED ACCEPTANCE WHEN IT COMES TO WASTEWATER Public outcry led to the derailment of Los Angeles’ $55M water reuse program in 2000. At the time, the program would have helped supply water to over 120k households. Wastewater reuse programs suffer from a severe public relations problem; people just don’t want to drink water that was once in a toilet. Dubbed ‘toilet to tap’ by its critics, wastewater reuse programs worldwide have had difficulty overcoming the ‘yuck factor’ and gaining traction from the general public. Like Los Angeles, San Diego similarly rejected a water reuse project in 1999. Moving forward to 2008, San Diego has now successfully implemented a new
September 11, 2013
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