The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved new regulations for direct potable reuse, AKA "toilet to tap" — that's when purified water is piped directly from a sewage ...

Toilet-to-tap will increase in importance as droughts and water shortages increase in severity. Toilet-to-tap water is so well filtered and treated that its quality may be higher than water from ...

TOILET TO TAP IS A CRUDE GROSS, BUT THE MOST DIRECT DESCRIPTION OF HOW WESTMINSTER PLANS TO RESOLVE ITS ACHILLES HEEL, A SCARCE WATER SUPPLY. I THINK IT SOUNDS DISGUSTING. I WOULDN’T WANT TO ...

From the toilet to the tap. California is considering big changes when it comes to sourcing drinking water. This week, the State Water Resources Control Board is looking at a plan to turn recycled ...

California’s “toilet-to-tap” program has been approved and millions of residents will now get treated wastewater pumped back into their homes.

When you flush the toilet, you probably hope to never see the contents again, especially in a glass of drinking water, but Orange County Water District is touting the benefits of the toilet to tap ...

To the editor: The phrase “toilet to tap,” coined in the 1990s by those who opposed the idea of recycling wastewater, serves as a reminder of the detrimental effects of ignorance.

To read the full article, visit The Guardian's website. The article From Sewage To Drinking Water: OC Pioneers Toilet To Tap appeared first on Orange County Patch.

San Diego, for example, launched a campaign to implement DPR in the 1990s, but this effort ultimately stalled when the “toilet-to-tap” phrase caught on and began to rock public opinion, KPBS ...

"It never has been toilet to tap. That has never happened," said Andrew Salveson, the Carollo Water Reuse Chief Technologist. CBS 8 visited San Diego's Pure Water project.