Texas Gets Creative With Recycling Water
On the outskirts of the Permian Basin town of Big Spring, workers have spent the last few weeks putting a roof on a facility that will, when it begins operating this year, become perhaps the first plant in the nation to process wastewater to put into a drinking water system.
Experts say such use of wastewater, a drought-proof resource, provides a key part of the water solution for fast-growing, drought-prone Texas.
"Reclaimed water," the term for cleaned-up wastewater that gets reused, currently provides a little less than 3 percent of Texas' water supply, often for purposes like irrigating golf courses ...
Comments (3)
Tom Davies via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Only 10% by 2060? That's pathetic. Could be that number much sooner.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
golf courses themselves are an utter waste of water, and who plays on a 100 degree afternoon anyway?
William King
The Legislature needs to take a look at revisions to the building codes. For example, builders should be required to plumb new houses to separate grey water from black water. The grey water can be stored and used for purposes like outside watering. Another example would be collection and storage of rain water. The code should require new structures be equipped with rainwater collection systems.