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Potable water, also known as drinking water, comes from surface and ground sources and is treated to levels that that meet state and federal standards for consumption. Water from natural sources is treated for microorganisms, bacteria, toxic chemicals, viruses and fecal matter.
Recycled water is also produced by purifying wastewater for safe use in drinking (potable) water and for non-potable uses such as irrigation. Recycling wastewater provides a new, costly but renewable water resource that can bolster local water supplies, save energy and reduce the amount of sewage treatment plant effluent emptied into rivers and ...
Water Summit: Exclusive Sponsorship Opportunities Available In case you missed the news last week, you can now register for the Water Education Foundation’s 40ᵗʰ annual Water Summit to be held on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Sacramento, with the theme, Reflecting on Silver Linings in Western Water.
Potable water, also known as drinking water, comes from surface and ground sources and is treated to levels that that meet state and federal standards for consumption. Water from natural sources is treated for microorganisms, bacteria, toxic chemicals, viruses and fecal matter.
The water you drank this morning might have been the same water that once rained down on a Tyrannosaurus, froze on a woolly mammoth, flowed down the Nile to bring new silt to an Egyptian farm – or filled the bathing pool of Julius Caesar. The water we use now is the same supply that has been on Earth for billions of years.
Most of the Earth’s water is saline, 97.5 percent with only 2.5 percent fresh. Of this water, about 70 percent is confined in glaciers and permanent snow in the Arctic, meaning the remaining available water is accessible after treatment, as potable water. About 0.3 percent of Earth’s freshwater is contained in lakes and rivers.
The Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) is expanding its non-potable water system with an 8.5-mile pipeline project, currently under construction on Frank Sinatra Drive in Palm Desert. The project aims to connect more customers to the district’s non-potable water system, which uses recycled and canal water for outdoor irrigation, helping ...
The nation’s surface-water resources—the water in the nation’s rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs—are vitally important to our everyday life. The main uses of surface water include drinking-water and other public uses, irrigation uses, and for use by the thermoelectric-power industry to cool electricity-generating equipment.
Water agencies in Arizona and Nevada are helping to pay for Metropolitan’s project in exchange for to-be-determined slices of Metropolitan’s Colorado River supply. The proposed plant would be built in Los Angeles and could produce up to 150 million gallons of potable water a day, enough to serve more than 500,000 households.
Water from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant costs between $2,302 and $2,559 per acre-foot, according to the San Diego County Water Authority, which has a contract to buy water from the plant. In 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted its policy for developing seawater desalination plants in California.