Can Sewage Help Solve Texas' Water Problems?
FORT WORTH — At the plant that treats most of the city’s sewage, water sloshes and foams within giant concrete walls. This is cleaned-up sewage, made even purer by processes the plant expanded just a few months ago. Now, some treated water runs through specially labeled, purple-colored pipes to irrigate nearby golf courses and a park, instead of just getting dumped into the nearby Trinity River, as has happened for decades.
With Texas facing dramatic population growth and constraints on its water supplies, interest in the use of sewage — “reclaimed water,” in industry parlance — is growing. The current 10-month drought ...
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BurningFeet
In the same district of Joe "Dimbulb" Barton, who claims environmental pollution is basically a government/liberal hoax, comes one of the most intelligent, creative useful and successful government environmental reclamation programs, reclaimed water. Next you're going to tell us that Texas, represented by paid advocates of coal power producers (see above), is leading the nation in wind power production, and that Big Spring is using all the tax money it generates from its wind farms to build its water reclamation facilities.
OH! Texas does lead the nation in wind power production, and Big Spring is using tax revenues from wind energy generation to build their reclamation facility. How could that possibly be? I thought we were too busy being overrun by anchor and terror babies crawling into our cities to take our jobs and welfare benefits to actually do anything useful. What a weird place this is. Ever wonder what it would be like if the wingnuts actually supported what was going on in their state?
John D.
Midland/Odessa industrial water use is so high, they could definitely benefit from using poop water instead of the good stuff.
Bill Carson
Why is this a big deal? What do you think happened to the treated sewage water Fort Worth dumped in to the Trinity? Answer: Dallas (downstream) re-treated and sold it as drinking water. If not Dallas, then Houston.