Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water Annin Peter
Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water Annin Peter In 2000, a transformative climate-driven "megadrought" swept over the Colorado River watershed. Outside the West, water stocks are…
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Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water Annin Peter
In 2000, a transformative climate-driven "megadrought" swept over the Colorado River watershed. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people.
Recycled water could help close that gap.In Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water, veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America's war against water scarcity. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth--drinking water--are coming up short. Annin probes deep into the water reuse movement in five water-strapped states--California, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida.
He drinks beer made from purified sewage,