Purified : how recycled sewage is transforming our water / Peter Annin.

"In 2000, a transformative climate-driven 'megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are...

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Main Author: Annin, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2023]
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:This was purchased from Ebsco with an unlimited concurrent users license.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross community.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "Do you drink beer?"
  • Dead pool
  • "Gulp!"
  • Orange County sets the bar
  • San Diego bounces back
  • Future water in Virginia
  • Running dry (almost) in Texas
  • El Paso's quiet leadership
  • Hot tempers in Tampa
  • Going beyond purple pipe in Florida
  • LA goes all in
  • Pure water SoCal and Operation NEXT
  • Water diversion, or water reuse?
  • Epilogue.