How desperate are we for water? We (finally) have the Basin Plan, the ISJ is (finally) over after 11 years, we have the sewer plant coming online starting in 2016, AND, we are doing a good job conserving water (well, not to the satisfaction of some, more on that in a later post). We are not importing water and we are not seriously thinking about de-sal, either. Some of us are saving water in barrels and various water catchment devices too, and are contemplating septic tank re-use. Is this enough?
We have been impacted in so many ways since the drought began. Sure, today it rained but I don't think too many of us are fooled that this winter, even if it rains a lot, will solve our problems. I don't know how much our current wastewater project squeezes out of the sludge before it is trucked away, but here is an innovative new treatment that will work for small amounts of sludge as opposed to the processes that need mountains of the stuff to be cost efffective. Take a look:
http://www.wateronline.com/doc/biomimetic-filters-recover-clean-water-from-sludge-0001
And just for fun, take a look at the benefits of water working the OTHER way, in a much different setting (I just found this and had to share!):
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