New Silicon Valley's Future - Drinking Out Of The Toilet

Californians are questioning where else to find water, and it often comes to the study about the desalination, five years of nowhere near sufficient rain. Take previously filtered water to a new level, ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis, cleans it with microfilters, new groundbreaking Water Purification Center in Alviso opened in July 2015. The outcome is generally distilled water After.

Disinfected and purified water from the sewage has been used since 1997 in Silicon Valley for the landscaping irrigation and industrial purposes.

And the desalination brings the price up to $3, filter sewage water will cost $1100, - $1500, 000. The cost of water that comes from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is $400 an acre-foot. Which covers twenty percent of the country's total water demand by 2025, silicon Valley political leaders propose to almost triple the use of purified water from twenty thousand acre-feet a year to fifty-five thousand.

April 28, santa Clara's mayors took big gulps of filtered sewage water on Monday and What wouldn't you do in the face of California Drought? San Jose's. Good stuff? Ouch.

It might be a good time for us to make less impressive steps, while Silicon Valley is facing the future of drinking out the toilet for the double price. They hope to get by the California Environmental Quality Act using an exemption from CEQA under an executive Gov. The $800 million finance for this project could be funded with state bond money and federal funds. But to the homeowners it yet means increased water rates. For example, replace natural turf with artificial. Jerry Brown's mandate issued April 1.