Groundwater Observatory. (2017, February 4). Retrieved March 9, 2017, from http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/groundwater_center.html
A novel project by the University of Cincinnati could lead to cleaner drinking water for millions of Americans.UC’s College of Arts and Sciences on Friday unveiled the new C.V. Theis Groundwater Observatory, a sensor array that will track how water moves between the Great Miami River and the aquifer beneath it, the sole source of drinking water for more than 2.3 million Ohioans. The $400,000 observatory at the Miami Whitewater Soccer Complex is the first of its kind east of the Mississippi River, said Amy Townsend-Small, associate professor of geology.
This article was very interesting and relevant! It is so great to see that places all over the United States are finding ways to recycle water and even lower over environmental issues at the same time.. It is still unfortunate to see how expensive these projects are. Why are they so expensive? They are essential to maintain a healthy ecosystem and help us strive so why is it so expensive? Because it is extremely expensive it limits what we can do, if it was cheaper more places over the world would be able to recycle water. Recycled water is beneficial to today’s economy and future.

St. Gabriel residents concerned by water recycling plant expansion. (2017, Jan. & feb.). Retrieved March 9, 2017, from http://www.wbrz.com/news/st-gabriel-residents-concerned-by-water-recycling-plant-expansion/
St. Gabriel City Council will soon decide if a water-recycling plant can expand, though many people are worried about it.Those people were not allowed to speak at a council meeting Thursday, however, since the project was just being introduced.The company has been operation in St. Gabriel for years recycling chemical waste. Tyrone Williams lives less than four miles from the plants and thinks expansion would cause more harm than good.”There are more than a thousand people being affected by this is you include the prison system,” Williams said. “And there have been significant violations, emission, cancer causing chemicals being released into the environment, the ground, the air, the water.”Absorbent Solutions President Stewart Fulton said the company did have violations in the past, but they continue to work with the Department of Environmental Quality to fix them.”Our goal in this expansion is to bring environmentalist responsibility, not only to the community but also to customers,” Fulton said.
This article was very interesting to me. Both sides in this case have very strong reasons on their claim. The ones being affected by this plant show the dangers of this plant and possible long term health effects of many. But the water plant is also very important in recycling water in order to drink and use it. I wonder which side is really overall more important.

Jerome, S. (2017, Feb. & march). Trump Issues Executive Order To Disassemble WOTUS. Retrieved March 9, 2017, from https://www.wateronline.com/doc/trump-issues-executive-order-to-disassemble-wotus-0001
Trump took steps last week to unravel a major water-policy regulation passed during the Obama administration.The Clean Water Rule — also known as the Water of the United States rule (WOTUS) — was the chief water-policy achievement of the Obama administration. Backers say it clarified which waters the U.S. EPA can regulate under the Clean Water Act. They argued that this issue has become increasingly unclear due to court decisions.The agriculture sector and the GOP framed the rule, currently unenforceable due to a court stay, as a government power grab that would hurt the economy.
This article is very interesting and very current. It is surprising how fast Trump can make life changing decisions as his presidency has just begun. Trump signed the order “surrounded by a group of farmers, homebuilders and county commissioners,” according to NPR.”It was a massive power grab,” Trump said, per NPR. “Regulations and permits started treating our wonderful small farmers and small businesses as if they were a major industrial polluter. They treated them horribly.” Not only is he getting rid of a very big water policy but he is treating people horrible while doing it. I wonder what will happen now that this policy is gone.

Strack, B. (2017, March 07). Oceanside students thirsty for change. Retrieved March 9, 2017, from http://www.liherald.com/stories/Oceanside-students-thirsty-for-change,88943
As a young girl in Burkina Faso, Georgie Badiel walked for three hours each morning to fetch clean water. After moving to the United States about a decade ago, she went back to her home country in Western Africa to visit her pregnant sister, who still had to get up between 2 and 4 a.m. to retrieve the scarce resource. Sixty sixth-graders in Angela Abend’s Project Extra class and students from Oceanside High School’s World Interest Club welcomed Badiel to the district on March 1, and presented the foundation with a $2,000 check. The donation culminated three months of students fundraisers and bottle collections as part of an interscholastic recycling project.
This article was very moving and eye opening. We don’t realize how lucky we really are for the water and other things we have. Living in the Silicon Valley we are secluded from what is really going on outside of our little world. About three million of the roughly 18 million people in Burkina Faso lack access to a clean water source, according to WaterAid America, and more than 2,800 children under 5 years old die in the country each year as a result of dirty water. The students broadened the scope of the issue, telling the audience that 780 million people encounter this lack of access worldwide, and even analyzed the recent water crisis in Flint, Mich. It is amazing to see how many people are eager to help recycle water to provide a better life for someone else.

Johnson, J. (2017, March 09). Recycled water project gets permit to inject highly treated wastewater into Seaside basin. Retrieved March 10, 2017, from http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20170309/NEWS/170309809
Watsonville Pure Water Monterey now has permission to inject highly treated recycled wastewater into the Seaside basin for later use as drinking water.With staff offering its full-throated support, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board on Thursday unanimously approved a permit blessing the recycled water project’s advanced treatment plan for purifying a variety of wastewater sources prior to pumping the water into the basin. The hearing was held at Watsonville City Hall.
This article was very interesting to me. Before approving the permit, board members questioned the treatment proposal’s ability to purify highly contaminated wastewater, including “legacy pesticides” and “constituents of emerging concern” such as pharmaceuticals. In response, project consultant Shane Trussel told the board the treatment process employing reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation would reduce contaminants to levels well below those allowed under drinking water standards. Explaining that the recycled water is just as safe as normal water. It is great to read that many proposals for recycling water are being passed!

Lohan, T. (2016, October 6). How California Is Learning to Love Drinking Recycled Water. Retrieved November 17, 2016, from https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/10/06/how-california-is-learning-to-love-drinking-recycled-water/

Recycled wastewater or advanced purified water– both terms are often used to talk about the same thing. Those are some of the things that have helped shift attitudes in California around potable reuse. Orange County paved a different way forward for California by using indirect potable reuse – treating wastewater to drinking water standards and then putting it back underground to mingle with water in the aquifer before being pumped back out for drinking.

This article was very interesting to me! It is shocking to read how picky most people are, if they see a word like waste water in a water bottle most people will be disgusted. It is also interesting to see how important word choice is. It is great to read that recycled water is spreading throughout California and hopefully beyond! This is relevant to the environment because if California spreads the knowledge of how benefica recycled water is the world would potentially be able to save amazing amounts of water.

Potter, D. (2016, October 31). California State Considers New Rules For Waste Water Recycling. Retrieved November 21, 2016, from http://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/10/31/california-state-considers-new-rules-for-waste-water-recycling/

State regulators are taking comments on a kind of water recycling where wastewater sits in a lake before being treated. The state already has rules in place for groundwater recharge where wastewater goes in an aquifer and later comes out for drinking water. Randy Barnard heads the recycled-water unit for the State Water Resources Control Board, says California will remain thirsty for new ways to get water, not just because of the drought, but because the state’s population is expected to grow by several millions in coming decades.

This article was very interesting. Instead of blaming the drought for our lack of water, the large population we have was taken into account. It is interesting to think that a growing population could affect our water supply. This article is extremely relevant to the environment because a growing population could not only affect water supplies but also to climate, and ecosystems.

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES APPROVED FOR WATER RECYCLING PROJECTS IN LOS ANGELES, RIVERSIDE COUNTIES. (2016, September 23). Retrieved November 17, 2016, fromhttp://www.waterworld.com/articles/2016/11/financial-incentives-approved-for-water-recycling-projects-in-los-angeles-riverside-counties.html

Financial incentives for four water recycling projects that will treat and deliver a total of nearly 5.3 billion gallons of water a year for use in the cities of Los Angeles, Torrance and Perris were approved today by Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors. Over the years, Metropolitan has provided more than $570 million in incentives to develop more than 2.2 million acre-feet of recycled water and 850,000 acre-feet of recovered groundwater supplies that are treated to meet drinking water quality standards.

It is amazing to read how much we can accomplish and replenish our society and world by recycling water. Money once again, plays a factor in this project but this time it has actually payed off and recycled nearly 326,000 gallons, about the amount used by two typical Southland households in and around the home in a year. If we keep this up we will surely be able to recycle more and more recycled water!

Garrick, D. (2016). San Diego accelerates new water supply. Retrieved November 17, 2016, fromhttp://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-pure-water-20161026-story.html

San Diego’s landmark water recycling system took several key steps forward this week when the City Council approved an accelerated timeline and a comprehensive environmental analysis. The city has also decided to pump the water into the Lake Miramar reservoir 8 miles away instead of the larger San Vicente Reservoir 18 miles away, shortening the pipeline construction timeline. This change will save roughly $50 million and reduce neighborhood and traffic disruptions during pipeline construction. In addition, officials have decided to make the Miramar purification plant more environmentally friendly by using methane from the nearby Miramar landfill as its power source. The move will simultaneously relieve regulatory pressure on the city’s Environmental Services Department to sharply reduce methane emissions from the landfill.

It is so great to see that places all over California finding ways to recycle water and even lower over environmental issues at the same time, such as methane emissions. It is still unfortunate to see how expensive these projects are. Why are they so expensive? They are essential to maintain a healthy ecosystem and help us strive so why is it so expensive? Because it is extremely expensive it limits what we can do, if it was cheaper more places over the world would be able to recycle water.  Recycled water is beneficial to today’s economy because due to California’s massive drought.

Chiland, E. (2016, October 23). LA asks state for more money to fund recycled water projects.

Retrieved November 17, 2016, from http://la.curbed.com/2016/10/23/13374554/recycled-water-los-angeles-drought-saving

Los Angeles has a serious dependence on imported water, and local officials want the state to pitch in more to help the city get more of its water from local sources. A letter was sent to the California Water Resources Control Board of Water Resources, the mayor and city controller asked for more money than the $15 million they already have to propel large infrastructure projects. The city is planning on a $435 million dollar project for a purification facility in Van Nuys. The project is expected to capture enough water to supply 90,000 homes each year. In order to reduce the amount of water imported from outside of Southern California, Los Angeles must expand its recycling programs.

It is so shocking how much money is needed for projects like these. We are already in trillions of dollars in debt and I wonder if there is another cost effective way Los Angeles can recycle water. This is relevant to the environment today because California has been facing a major drought in the past few years and water is so sparse they we must find a way to recycle water!