And lastly, infrastructure week put the spotlight on federal funding for critical systems. “We need to show the American people that this is their tax dollars at work. We need to be able to tell the ...

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 ...

And lastly, members of Congress from states damaged by Hurricane Helene lobby for federal disaster funding. “So with Congress back in session, we should waste no time. And before we get to next year’s ...

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Californians could drink highly purified sewage water that is piped directly into drinking water supplies for the first time under proposed rules unveiled by state water officials. The drought-prone ...

In California, toilet or shower wastewater will no longer just be dumped into the Pacific Ocean or used for farmland. Now, it’ll be recycled into drinking water. California’s Water Resources Control ...

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 DRINK IT.

Scientists tested South Africa’s water. What they found was alarming: E. coli, sewage pollution and unsafe drinking water ...

SANTEE, Calif — Construction on the new East County Advanced Water Purification facility is well underway. When completed, it will turn 15 million gallons of wastewater into purified water for people ...

TUCSON — An $86.7 million agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation has put Tucson on track to build a plant to treat wastewater to drinking water standards by late 2031. The federal agency will pay ...