Orange County Recycled Water System Shows Importance of Collaboration

By Brett Walton
Circle of Blue

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, California – For those who believe technological leaps will rescue society from a collapsing ecological house, the cluster of monochrome industrial buildings next to the Orange County Water District headquarters holds wonders. Inside is the holy trio of modern water-treatment technologies, the three purification processes that strip water to its elemental hydrogen and oxygen core: microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet radiation. These are the discoveries, used in sequence, that close the urban hydrologic cycle, that transform the dirty liquid that goes down the household drain into clean water that can flow again from the faucet…

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