The lovely city of San Diego California will start recycling sewage as drinking water soon, after completing construction of the new treatment plants. Another much smaller city on the east U.S. coast does this as well. San Diego expects to purchase water at the highest cost in the United States within a few years. Just recently, SANDAG and the Southland Empire government associations celebrated 50 years of imported water. San Diego, a veritable paradise, is actually a harsh desert. The primary concern about the new sewage recycling system is not bacterial or viral contamination, but radioactive waste buildup and overconcentrated chemicals from the sterilization process. Mark Hedges On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Michael Wilson wrote: > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Costs are going up for pure, clear water > > Copyright ) 1997 Nando.net > Copyright ) 1997 Governing Magazine > > (December 27, 1997 00:24 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - From crowded > cities to rural villages, from wealthy suburbs to ramshackle trailer > parks, an essential component for a livable community is clean drinking > water. And Americans everywhere take its availability for granted. > > Maybe they shouldn't. Around the country, public officials are finding > it hard to live up to that trust. State and local agencies are facing > persistent financial and technical barriers to supplying safe drinking > water. >
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