Toilet waste to tap water: Welcome to the future of recycled sewage
Suffering through a prolonged dry period, utilities are increasingly relying on sewage to generate the state’s water needs. Known in industry parlance as “recycled wastewater” and in lay terms as “toilet to tap,” this water source understandably triggers a gag reflex in some consumers — but it shouldn’t. Recycled wastewater is quickly becoming the single most important element of a drought-proof water supply in the climate-change era, and it happens to be as pure and delicious as anything you might buy bottled from the Swiss Alps.