An upcoming slogan for California should be, don't drink the water. 'California Approves Rules for Making Drinking Water from Sewage.' “It’s at the same drinking water quality, and probably better in many instances,” said Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the division of drinking water for the California Water Resources Control Board said to the Associated Press. Nearly half of San Diego’s drinking water is slated to come from treated wastewater by 2035.
It is probably a good time to buy stock in evian Natural Spring Water. Regardless of how elaborate the purifying process is, it will be hard for many folks to 'swallow' the concept of drinking water people pooped and peed in.
In Oregon, more than 300 public water providers rely on surface water from rivers, lakes, or reservoirs as their main source to supply about 75 percent of Oregonians with their safe drinking water. Much of Portland Oregon's water comes from Bull Run Water Shed. Oregon prides itself on having good tasting tap drinking water.
Oregonians take purity in our drinking water seriously. When this happened, it was all over the news; 'One Man's Pee Pushes Portland to Flush 38 Million Gallons Of Water' APRIL 17, 2014. The water was contained in one of the reservoirs located in Mt. Tabor Park. The three open reservoirs at Mount Tabor no longer supplies drinking water.
