UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 9 July 2008 -- Water re-use. Water conservation. Water efficiency.  These have become the new buzz phrases when it comes to addressing the challenges associated with the global water sector.

As a result, a number of initiatives have begun to be implemented to improve water - use or rather water re-use – initiatives, even in OECD countries like the United States.

For example, within the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District (State of California), pipelines are being installed that would bring recycled water to public and private lawns.  

Ongoing drought in the region coupled with a decrease in an imported water supply from the Colorado River and Northern California region have encouraged many water districts located in Southern California to encourage consumer conservation, and expand the concept of water efficiency partly through water re-use efforts.

Costing nearly US$45 million dollars, the specific recycled water project in the San Gabriel Valley will essentially bring wastewater from homes and businesses into reclamation facilities run by the sanitation district.  

The treated recycled wastewater will then be pumped back into the pipes for use by local parks, cemeteries, schools, and golf courses. 

The funding for the project is being sourced from a number of agencies including the mammoth Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Sanitation District.  

According to one of the local assemblymen serving the district, the project is significant at several levels: it will save energy; will free up drinking water and therefore minimize the need to import more water; and will help build on improved public acceptance of the use of recycled water.

This recycled water project, when all four phases are finally completed, is expected to save the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District billions of gallons of drinking water a year. 

A giant next step – a duplication of this kind of initiative in other areas of the country and in other parts of the world.

Labels: United Nations, U.N., MaximsNews WATER, water, Kathy Shandling, United States, U.S., recycling water, recycled water, San Gabriel Valley, international development, environment, water news, water sustainability, water resource, water management, global water crisis, sustainable development

 

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