Study Says Purified Wastewater Could Meet California's Water Needs

Prolonged and severe droughts and other factors have made water supplies increasingly scarce in California, Texas and many other regions of the United States, as well as elsewhere around the globe. According to a new WateReuse Research Foundation White Paper, a viable and affordable solution for many communities is to turn wastewater into purified drinking water.In The Opportunities and Economics of Direct Potable Reuse (WRRF-14-08), Dr. Robert S. Raucher, Stratus Consulting, and Dr. George Tchobanoglous, University of California, Davis, find that potable water reuse is generally less expensive than — or comparable in cost to — the potential alternative sources