California is set to become 2nd state to allow turning wastewater into drinking water (www.mercurynews.com)

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[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I thought this was already a thing everywhere. Doesn't wastewater go to a water treatment facility, get treated, then recycled back theough?

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[-] binary45@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

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