Legislation to Recycle Waste Water

What’s happening? In 2017, California passed AB-574 (2017 | CA) that requires California’s Water Resources Control Board to adopt uniform criteria for direct potable reuse of recycled water by the end of December 2023. This will allow purified water to be sent directly to surface water reservoirs.

Why is this important? Recycling of waste water is an ongoing effort in California since the 1990s and bolsters regional water planning.

How will this be important? There will always be an area of drought that must consider new options.

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