The program is called, "National Water Reuse Action Plan." It could be called, "Drink Your Own Piss."
On February 27, 2020, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler (click here) and other federal, state, and local water leaders announced the release of the National Water Reuse Action Plan: Collaborative Implementation (Version 1). Safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation, and healthy ecosystems are critical to our nation’s communities and economy. Water reuse can improve the security, sustainability, and resilience of our nation’s water resources, especially when considered at the watershed or basin scale....
So far 40 states are targeted for the program. The public input isn't widely advertised.
April 18, 2020
Contact Information:
EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov )
Washington - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (click here) is seeking public input on the development of an action plan to accelerate the application of water reuse as a safe, reliable, and sustainable way to meet the country’s current and future water demands.
“To meet the country’s most pressing water resources challenges, EPA recognizes the need for coordinated federal leadership,” said David Ross, U.S. EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Water. “Working with our federal partners, we are looking to tap the expertise of our nation’s farmers, utilities, industry, NGOs, scientists, and others to craft a Water Reuse Action Plan that helps our country better prepare for current and future water challenges and meet the water needs of generations to come.”...
EPA Regions to Facilitate Water Reuse (click here)
"Water reuse represents a major opportunity to support our nation’s communities and economy by bolstering safe and reliable water supplies for human consumption, agriculture, business, industry, recreation and healthy ecosystems.”
-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler
The Basics (click here)
Water reuse (also commonly known as water recycling or water reclamation) reclaims water from a variety of sources then treats and reuses it for beneficial purposes such as agriculture and irrigation, potable water supplies, groundwater replenishment, industrial processes, and environmental restoration. Water reuse can provide alternatives to existing water supplies and be used to enhance water security, sustainability, and resilience.
Water reuse can be defined as planned or unplanned. Unplanned water reuse refers to situations in which a source of water is substantially composed of previously-used water. A common example of unplanned water reuse occurs when communities draw their water supplies from rivers, such as the Colorado River and the Mississippi River, that receive treated wastewater discharges from communities upstream.
Planned water reuse refers to water systems designed with the goal of beneficially reusing a recycled water supply. Often, communities will seek to optimize their overall water use by reusing water to the extent possible within the community, before the water is reintroduced to the environment. Examples of planned reuse include agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial process water, potable water supplies, and groundwater supply management...,
I have been involved with conservation all my life and intensely involved in the past 21 years. Never once has anyone ever said, let's convert garbage into a benevolent method of refining water. Never once. It was always about making water safer and minimizing pollution into rivers and streams. This plan by the Trump Administration explains a lot about their agenda. DEREGULATION and reducing costs to increase profits.
This form of water reclamation is extremely expensive and requires far more regulation than anyone can imagine. There will be regulation after regulation and guess what will happen in the end? It will be scraped and the old methods will be pursued while seeking to improve water quality everywhere.
I got to hand it to Trump, he knows how to make things as bad as they can be to turn those that complain about costs and government into believers.
