Phoenix receives $179 million in federal funds for water purification facility
Nearly $180 million in federal funding will be spent on a new advanced water purification facility in Phoenix, officials announced Wednesday. The funding will help cover the design and construction costs of Phoenix’s new North Gateway Advanced Water Purification Facility that will treat 8 million gallons of recycled water each day. When combined with in-progress upgrades to the Cave Creek Water Reclamation Plant, the city’s water treatment sites will produce about 12.5 million gallons of water per day. Advanced Water Purification (AWP), which both sites will use, is the process by which wastewater is recycled into drinking water “so clean it meets or exceeds federal and local drinking water requirements,” according to the city’s website. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality permitted the technology to be used at the local level in March.
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