Drought-Stricken Texas Town Turns To Toilets For Water

[ellenrr]

The city of Wichita Falls, Texas, may soon become the first in the country where half of the drinking water comes directly from wastewater.

Water supplies are still expected to run out in two years.

So the city has built a 13-mile pipeline that connects its wastewater plant directly to the plant where water is purified for drinking. That means the waste that residents flush down their toilets will be part of what's cleaned up and sent back to them through the tap.

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/06/309101579/drought-stricken-texas-town-turns-to-toilets-for-water

[Gothmog]

1. Texas is having issues with water supply

This is going to be a serious issue in Texas

[safeinOhio]

2. Water will hit $100/barrel in Texas

and the Great Lakes area will be rich.

[Nihil]

3. Long overdue.

Still, better late to sanity than never I suppose.

[ellenrr]

4. Sometimes late is no better than never, eg

climate change.
I just heard someone say, when things get SO bad, then people will wake up.

Wishful thinking imo.

Once it is SO bad, that even the most asleep will wake up, it will be too late.

sorry to be grim and glum, but I think this is the truth.