A Massive Water Recycling Proposal Could Help Ease Drought

Photograph: Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images. Article by Matt Simon. Wired – July 7, 2021.

Members of Congress from Western states are pushing for $750 million to turn wastewater into pure water. Here’s how that works.

Lake Mead, which provides water for 25 million people in the American West, has shrunk to 36 percent of its capacity. One rural California community has run out of water entirely after its well broke in early June. Fields are sitting fallow, as farmers sell their water allotments instead of growing crops, putting the nation’s food supply in peril. […]

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