EditorialThe Ultimate Reuse

The Ultimate Reuse

Effective community relations helps a Texas city win support for direct reuse of wastewater to shore up drinking water supplies in the face of severe drought.

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The Ultimate Reuse
David Harris, director of utilities, leads a wastewater treatment plant tour for the Brownwood High School FFA chapter.

The lake that supplies drinking water to Brownwood in Central Texas was at historic low levels last summer, and the city looked for alternatives.

The most attractive turned out to be direct reuse — treating wastewater effluent to make drinking water. The city is proceeding with ...

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