Padre Dam Municipal Water District (USA) opened its Advanced Water Purification Demonstration Facility in late April of this year. The demonstration facility will use advanced water purification technologies to purify and test approximately 100,000 gallons of recycled water each day. The facility was designed to deal with California’s severe drought conditions by developing a new […]
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Jamaica Considers Water Reclamation
Whenever there is a drought, Jamaican households go without water and crops yields are affected. There is also an increase in water-borne illnesses such as gastroenteritis. One method for overcoming the problems associated with occasions of drought in Jamaica is reclaiming water. Reclamation of water is the treatment or processing of wastewater to make it […]
Australian Floods May Have Been Prevented by Water Reuse Schemes
The long Australian drought increase interest in Australia for people to talk seriously about recycling our sewage to use as drinking water. It is possible that if recycling schemes had been in place, the massive floods that followed last year might not have happened. There are two kinds of recycled water: ‘Indirect potable reuse’ or […]
San Diego Uses Advanced Oxidation to Recycle Wastewater
In summer 2011, the City of San Diego opened the Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Facility, a small-scale, state-of-the-art facility that purifies one MGD of recycled water. The facility is one component of the City’s Water Purification Demonstration Project that is examining the safety and cost of purifying recycled water. San Diego is examining water purification […]
Marines to Recycle Wastewater in San Diego for Landscape Irrigation
The Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San diego is pioneering a type of on-site wastewater recycling system. It will divert 10,000 gallons of sewage at the base each day, treat it to state standards and pump it through irrigation lines to the roots of landscape plants. If all works according to plan, passers-by won’t notice […]
West Basin to use Ozone Pretreatment for Water Reclamation
West Basin’s Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo, CA will be undergoing its fourth expansion since its original construction in 1995. The facility which currently produces 30 million gallons per day (MGD) is being expanded by an additional 16 MGD. Under the expansion, water purification facilities will be expanded to produce an […]