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California is set to become 2nd state to allow turning wastewater into drinking water(www.mercurynews.com)

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JackLSauce@lemmy.world
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That sounds like the current water cycle with fewer steps

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KrankyKong@lemmy.world
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I thought this was already a thing everywhere. Doesn’t wastewater go to a water treatment facility, get treated, then recycled back theough?

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binary45@lemmy.world
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Usually, it isn’t. What usually happens is that the water is treated, then sent to a nearby body of water. Technically, you are right, but there’s an environmental release of the water before it goes back into the water supply.

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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Well, that sounds gross.

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