Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water Recycling

Photo caption: A rooftop wetland on the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco filters wastewater from sinks and showers for reuse. Photo credit: Jeremy Graham / Alamy Stock Photo. Article by Jim Robbins. Yale Environment 360 – June 6, 2023.

In downtown San Francisco, in a cavernous garage that was once a Honda dealership, a gleaming white-and-blue appliance about the size of a commercial refrigerator is being prepared for transport to a hotel in Los Angeles. There, this unit, called a OneWater System, will be installed in the basement, where its collection of pipes will take in much of the hotel’s graywater […]

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