Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
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In 2000, a transformative climate-driven 鈥渕egadrought鈥� swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river鈥檚 two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth鈥攄rinking water鈥攁re coming up short. Recycled water could help close that gap.
In Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water, veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America鈥檚 war against water scarcity. Annin probes deep into the water reuse movement in five water-strapped states鈥擟alifornia, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida. He drinks beer made from purified sewage, visits communities where purified sewage came to the rescue, and examines how one of the nation鈥檚 largest wastewater plants hopes to recycle one hundred percent of its wastewater by 2035. At each stop, readers come face to face with the people who are struggling for, and against, recycled water. While the current filtration technology transforms sewage into something akin to distilled water鈥攆ree of chemicals and safe to drink鈥攚ater recycling鈥檚 challenge isn鈥檛 technology. It鈥檚 terminology. Concerns about communities being used as 鈥済uinea pigs,鈥� sensationalist media coverage, and taglines like 鈥渢oilet to tap鈥� have repeatedly crippled water recycling efforts. Potable water recycling has become the hottest frontier in the race for expanded water supply options. But can public opinion turn in time to avoid the worst consequences?
Purified鈥檚 fast-paced narrative cuts through the fearmongering and misinformation to make the case that recycled water is direly needed in the climate-change era. Water cannot be taken for granted anymore鈥攁nd that includes sewage.