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The world has a water crisis - that much is undeniable. But it's also our own doing. Although just a tiny fraction of the world's 326 quintillion gal. of water is usable by humans, we would have more than enough to go around if we took care of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

Orange County water officials decided to solve both problems at the same time. The result is the Groundwater Replenishment System (GRS), a glistening, $480 million facility that sits next to an older sewage-treatment plant. The GRS takes in about 70 million gal. of wastewater a day, puts it through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

Whether or not we know it, most of us drink water that has had contact with sewage at some point. Municipal water authorities discharge treated wastewater - and in times of heavy rains, untreated water - into rivers like the Colorado or the Mississippi, where the sheer volume of water dilutes any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

A visit to the plant shows those fears to be unfounded. Orange County's wastewater undergoes more stringent treatment than almost any water source on the planet. First, the dark beer-colored sewage is pulled through a series of tubes stuffed with thousands of fibers pierced with holes 1/300th the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

Bud Light in hand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 told his running mate last night that he was worried she wasn’t drinking enough. But as she waited with Schwartz to find out the results of this year’s student...

Author: By Carola A Cintron-arroyo and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Candidates Ponder U.C. Election Loss | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

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