TOILET TO TAP: California Approves Turning Sewage Into Drinking Water

The liberal dystopia that is California has just come up with a brilliant solution to address their water problems.

And, it’s not desalinating the huge ocean right off their coast…

Nope.

It’s pump-treating sewage and recycling it back into people’s homes!

This is not satire.

See for yourself:

California Democrats would rather you drink filtered piss and poop water than desalinate the giant ocean right next to them https://t.co/zlEv94j1C6

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) December 22, 2023

BREAKING: California Regulators have approved a new rule to transform sewage waste into pure drinking water. pic.twitter.com/J1ManmXAlg

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Just this past week, officials approved the “toilet-to-tap” program, allowing water agencies to treat wastewater and pump it back into people’s homes.

This might sound…I don’t know, disgusting?

But, rest assured, the director of the Division of Drinking Water promises it will “truly be the highest quality water delivered in the state.”

The New York Post has more details on California’s revolutionary new program:

Who ever claimed Californians were full of crap?

Officials in the Golden State this week approved new “toilet-to-tap” regulations, allowing water agencies to take wastewater from homes, recycle it and pump it back to households in an effort to boost the state’s dwindling water supply.

“It will truly be the highest quality water delivered in the state when it’s done,” said Darrin Polhemus, director of the Division of Drinking Water and the State Water Resources Control Board.

Despite some trepidation from consumers, officials have guaranteed the scheme is safe due to the wastewater undergoing three rigorous stages of treatment.

The water is treated for pathogens and viruses in a way officials say is so thorough, minerals actually have to be added back to improve the taste.

Fortune also commented:

When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: An ice skating rink near Disneyland, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the Central Valley.

And — coming soon — kitchen faucets.

California regulators on Tuesday approved new rules to let water agencies recycle wastewater and put it right back into the pipes that carry drinking water to homes, schools and businesses.

It’s a big step for a state that has struggled for decades to secure reliable sources of drinking water for its more than 39 million residents. And it signals a shift in public opinion on a subject that as recently as two decades ago prompted backlash that scuttled similar projects.

Since then, California has been through multiple extreme droughts, including the most recent one that scientists say was the driest three-year period on record and left the state’s reservoirs at dangerously low levels.

“Water is so precious in California. It is important that we use it more than once,” said Jennifer West, managing director of WateReuse California, a group advocating for recycled water.

California has been using recycled wastewater for decades. The Ontario Reign minor league hockey team has used it to make ice for its rink in Southern California. Soda Springs Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe has used it to make snow. And farmers in the Central Valley, where much of the nation’s vegetables, fruits and nuts are grown, use it to water their crops.

But it hasn’t been used directly for drinking water. Orange County operates a large water purification system that recycles wastewater and then uses it to refill underground aquifers. The water mingles with the groundwater for months before being pumped up and used for drinking water again.

California’s new rules would let — but not require — water agencies take wastewater, treat it, and then put it right back into the drinking water system. California would be just the second state to allow this, following Colorado.