Fellicity Barringer, As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps; As water becomes more precious, new openess to reusing it. New York Times, Feb 10, 2012 (front page).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/1 ... d-for-drinking.html
("Without the benefit of subsidies, reclaimed [from wastewater] water’s cost was just 14 percent less than desalinated water’s, which experts say requires 3 to 10 times the energy output") |