Recycled water may prove crucial for Northern California amid ongoing droughts, climate change
With two multiyear droughts in a decade and the pace of human-caused climate change accelerating each year due to the burning of fossil fuels, agencies across the [San Francisco Bay] region are finally grappling with the need for more recycled water and whether to expand the purple pipe systems that carry it….But most water agencies in the nine Bay Area counties are cautiously waiting to invest until the long-awaited, state-approved regulations for mixing toilet water and tap water — what officials call “direct potable reuse” — go into effect.