Friday, March 13, 2009

U.S. high-tech water future hinges on cost, politics

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52B04T20090312

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Anyone who has visited Disneyland recently and taken a sip from a drinking fountain there may have unknowingly sampled a taste of the future -- a small quantity of water that once flowed through a sewer.

Orange County Water District officials say that's a good thing -- the result of a successful, year-old project to purify wastewater and pump it into the ground to help restore depleted aquifers that provide most of the local water supply.