… To learn from a city already in the water reuse business, Mexican officials toured Oceanside’s Pure Water facility on Tuesday. … Four years ago, Oceanside becamethe first in San Diego County and the second in California to open a state-of-the-art purification facility. It turns 3 million gallons of recycled wastewater per day into drinking water for residents, accounting for 20% of the city’s drinking water. Mayor Esther Sanchez said years of severe drought forced Oceanside and other communities in the western U.S. to think about creating a local water supply, one that could help them rely less on the Colorado River and prepare for future droughts. … Sanchez said she believes a water-reuse approach for Tijuana will work, as it has for her city.

Other desalination and water recycling news:

• San Diego Red (Tijuana, Mex.): Tecate Councilor María Quijada studies Oceanside’s pioneering water recycling plant
• Peoria Independent (Ariz.): Desalinated Pacific Ocean water won’t be cheap but Arizona is scrambling to offset Colorado River cuts
• Smart Water Magazine: California State Lands Commission approves lease for Monterey Peninsula Desalination Project
• Monterey County Now (Seaside, Calif.): California State Lands Commission approves Cal Am lease for slant wells in Marina
• KTAR (Phoenix): Advanced water purification: Creating Arizona’s next water supply