As Aurora city leaders consider reducing water usage, a closer look inside the city’s purification system shows how reused water from river basins is transformed into drinking water through a multi-step process designed to remove contaminants for more than 400,000 customers. … Aurora Water said it’s able to reuse 90 to 99% of its water rights, meaning it can be reused several times before traveling down the river. … Binney is one of three purification facilities in Aurora, but it is its most advanced and in-depth plant. Aurora Water said on high demand days in the summer, 85 million gallons of water can be purified across the three locations. 30,000, of which, get processed at Binney.

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