California to Consider ‘Toilet to Tap’ Water Reuse Regulations Next Week

[Ed. Note: If someone told you that one state was about to start drinking its own piss, and you only had one guess, you wouldn’t guess South Dakota, would you?]

by Joel B. Pollak Breitbart.com

The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) will consider regulations next week that would allow “toilet to tap” reuse of water supplies, treating sewage water and sending it back into ordinary drinking water systems in select municipalities.

As Breitbart News noted back in 2019, new technology, similar to that used for desalination, was being tested on sewage water with a view to recycling that water, expanding the supply of available water in a state that is beset by periodic severe droughts.

Earlier this year, as Breitbart News noted, the SWRCB announced that it would consider such regulations, saying in a statement: