A Cup of Water, Is It Clean?

2/3/2008
Ahna J. Hughes
San Diego city officials attended a ground breaking ceremony for a new water purification system that sanitizes sewage water to transform it as potable drinking water to mitigate the Californian drought.

Eileen Zimmerman, from Slate.com, reports the largest water purificationproject held open ceremonies on January 25th to sanitize sewage water,converting it as a potable secondary resource for Californian cities suffering from drought. San Diego's city officials attended the ceremony in hopes of lifting the on-going issues with drought for its three million residents.

San Diego's main water resource, the Colorado River, is drying up and recent legislative action has limited the city's ability to draw water from the San Joaquin Delta in hopes of restoring its degrading ecosystem.

Recycling sewage water, known as toilet-to-tap, has become a popular method in other U.S cities as an alternative water resource. Unfortunately, this idea has become widely unpopular with Californian residents.

Legislative acts in several Californian cities have vetoed petitions to use this water purification system as an alternative due to widespread ostracized opinions based upon its recycling process. "Toilet-to-tap" programs use city sewage water; water that's been flushed in toilets, and sanitizes it through a water purification process that runs sewage through pipes, filters and tanks then flows into surrounding lakes.

Who would like a "fresh" cup of water, anyone?

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