When Janet Cruz lost an April election for a Tampa City Council seat, she became a political casualty of an increasingly high-stakes debate over recycled water. During her time in the Florida ...

First up: the city of L.A.’s effort to convert the Hyperion wastewater treatment plant. The goal is to recycle all that treated wastewater that currently ends up in the ocean. The city is hosting a ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno Chaffee Zoo is one step closer to achieving sustainability after officially launching the installation of the Purple Pipe project to enhance irrigation efforts ...

If you use a Brita water filter, you already know that you're getting all the benefits of the purest bottled brands from simple tap water. But when your filter reaches the end of its life, you might ...

L.A.’s big plans to recycle almost all of its wastewater for drinking is likely to take a lot longer than originally proposed. Back in 2019, former L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a goal to recycle ...

Across California, entire regions are proving what's possible. Orange County has built the world's largest water recycling ...

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When Eric Seufert brewed a test batch of beer in 2017 with water from recycled sewage, he wasn't too concerned about the outcome. The engineering firm that approached him about the test explained the ...

Recycling has become a big part of saving water amid California's historic drought, and businesses across the state are implementing it in interesting ways. Wasting water is something that has ...

When recycled for drinking, the millions of gallons of water that Bay Area residents flush down toilets and showers every day could be cleaner than the pristine Hetch Hetchy water that flows from many ...

When Janet Cruz lost an April election for a Tampa City Council seat, she became a political casualty of an increasingly high-stakes debate over recycled water. During her time in the Florida ...

When Janet Cruz lost an April election for a Tampa City Council seat, she became a political casualty of an increasingly high-stakes debate over recycled water. During her time in the Florida ...