VectorVictor Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 In Los Angeles they pump a couple hundred million(1) gallons of fresh, clean water into the ocean each day. Far, far in excess of all the bottled drinking water used in LA every day. Very wasteful. I'm talking about the Hyperion water treatment plant in El Segundo, just south of LAX. Okay, sure it's treated sewage water. But the fully treated water that comes out of it is actually cleaner than the drinking water used in LA--measured in ppm impurities. Even if the idea of drinking the treated water was unpalatable, it could at least be used for irrigation purposes. LINK There is a similar, smaller plant in San Pedro. LINK Really, what LA should do is pump all the treated sewage water back into the potable water supply. If people don't want to drink it they could buy buy bottled water from grocery stores. That would solve much of LA's water shortage right there. The amount of water people drink is much smaller than the total water used, per person. NUance, very good point. It's something they've talked about doing in Texass (since they're in a drought down here too, and all but one of the lakes in Texass are man-made to catch rainwater to drink). Problem is, as one would expect from Texass, a certain group of locals started herpaderping about the whole thing, called it government oppression, etc., and they scrapped the idea. :-| Link to comment
Recommended Posts