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From the Toilet to Your Tap
Tucson Weekly by Dave Devine and Molly McKasson The overpowering stench of something rotting often wafts across Interstate 10 between Prince and Ina roads. If it weren't for smells like this that we occasionally encounter, most of us would never think about the constant stream of underground slime, chemicals and human waste slowly oozing its way toward two sewage-treatment plants along the Santa Cruz River.
Many of us are aware that some of this disgusting material is eventually treated to become reclaimed water, which is piped to parks and golf courses for irrigation, while more of it is discharged into the dry riverbed. What few people know is that in the future, the Tucson City Council will be asking the community an important question: Under what scenario would you be willing to drink this wastewater? There's nothing like a potential water shortage to remind us that we live in a booming desert community--and treated effluent is a major sustainable source of additional drinking water. Click Here to read the article |
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