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Sewer Water in Orange County, California is Purified, Returns to Tap

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Featured on Episode 18 of the 2007-2008 season

 

Seventy-one percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water. The world population is approximately 6,647,200,764. Most of us use water to make life more comfortable, and one of those ways is indoor plumbing. But all those people need water to survive. Kara Finnstrom tells us how people in California are about to start drinking from the toilet - kind of. Sewer water in Orange County is now being treated and purified at a half billion dollar reclamation plant. The sewage runs through a three-step purification process, then returns to nature to mix with ground water. It could become drinking water within six months.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-reclaim2jan02,0,7789563.story
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8604sci4.html

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