In an extreme move to address the climate “crisis” and the state's infamous water droughts, California may be looking to use “toilet to raise” conversions.
In a tentative vote scheduled for next week, the California State Water Resources Control Board may vote on a measure that would turn sewage water into supposedly safe drinking water.
Under the proposed plan, wastewater that is currently treated and released into oceans and rivers, and used for field irrigation, can be “treated to a higher level” and then “returned to the water supply major over the course of hours or days,” the Washington Examiner reported.
“Rarely has U.S. wastewater gone directly into the drinking water supply, making this move in California a historic regulation,” the outlet noted. “If approved, California sanitation districts expect to begin construction in 2025 and begin delivering water in 2032.”
“It's really going to be some of the best water quality available,” the water board's deputy director of drinking water, Darrin Polhemus, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kirsten Struve, assistant chief operating officer for Santa Clara Valley Water, told the company that about a third of the public is not behind the idea.
In a news release in July, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California noted that Pure Water Southern California received $80 million from the state to “create a new water source to benefit 19 million people in the midst of a climate change and a rainstorm.”
“Pure Water Southern California is a critical 21st century investment in the region's water future. It will expand water supplies with a climate-resilient source and help the entire state respond to warmer, drier conditions ” said SWRCB president JoaquÃn Esquivel.
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham and Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla used the “disgusting” plan this week on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“If there's anything that screams WTF, it's this issue. We have Bill Gates to thank for that,” Ingraham said before playing a clip of Gates telling TV host Jimmy Fallon about reused water.
“California seems to like that idea,” Ingraham noted as she shared the report on the possible California vote.
Failla was not involved, declaring that “this is disgusting”. It's gross.”
“But knowing California, Gavin Newsom will find a way to turn it into a positive. It's like California has tap water number one and number two,” he joked. “And the liberals will be awesome and the Republicans will puke because we understand what they're doing here, but it's very important for the viewer to quickly understand that, like all climate policies, nobody who's pushing them is participating.”
“Do you think there is a world where Bill Gates drinks water from the poop faucet?” he asked himself.
“Never,” Ingraham replied.
While converting sewage into potable water is used in some other countries, a recent pollution problem in Nambia has created something of a health crisis. Many of the cities face water problems “primarily as a result of poor sanitation practices and inadequate water treatment facilities,” according to a report Earlier this year, it said that a city's water is “unfit for human consumption.”
“The drinking water situation in Mariental has been in a serious state for several months. The council blames Namwater and vice versa, but nothing is done,” an activist named Werner von Watsdorf told the outlet. “Meanwhile, the 'drinking' water is dirty and dirty.”
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