Sabalow, R. (2018, March 30). Californians Are Embracing Recycled Drinking Water, so Why Isn’t Sacramento? Sacbee, The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved September 1, 2018 from https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article206384744.html
Sacramento, unlike the rest of California, has a set plan from which to get drinking water. Sacramento River, American River, and Folsom Lake provide abundant and affordable water supplies, holding off the need to build new infrastructure to accumulate recycled water into drinking water. Southern California and San Diego have started building to continue the process of reverse osmosis for their water. Exactly 12 years ago, the Water Replenishment District of Southern California decided to stop pumping in water from Northern California and the Colorado River since it was costly and unreliable. Today, because of recycled water, they are almost completely independent of imported water.
I really like that the article notes that recycling waste water isn’t the most prefered kind of drinking water but it does serve as a “drought proof supply”. It’s also included that Sacramento sends about 5 million gallons of recycled water per day to Southern California, and this exemplifies how the problem should be handled, together. Lastly, this is a useful article because it gives more details about the other topics discussed in the links above.
I think water use in California is huge issue and especially because of the recent droughts. It really doesn’t make any sense that Sacramento isn’t recycling water. Sacramento also has a large farming population which uses large quantities of water so you would think they would take every opportunity to save water that they could.
True, but I think they are doing well enough to be able to send a few million gallons to other cities.
Drought have caused major issues reguarding water in California. Sacramento is being ridiculous in not joining the effort. If Sacramento contributed they would solve some major issues reguarding water.
Thank you for a different perspective with your comment. Lets hope Sacramento joins the effort soon.
I think it is very necessary for new ways for water usage to be developed, and it pleases me that there are at the very least efforts to do so. Why do you think Sacramento has lagged behind in this regard to save water?
Thank you for your comment. I think up until this point Sacramento hasn’t had the need to recycle water (note that they send 5 million gallons to SoCal already). Other comments on this post think it’s ridiculous that Sacramento isn’t helping the efforts especially because they are a farming community, but it’s a matter of time till they start to help, more.