Epic Cleantec operations director Ryan Pulley holds a beaker of wastewater known as gray water from a San Francisco apartment tower (left). It’s cleaned to drinking water standards (right) and reused ...

John Rehring is a vice president and senior client services manager with Carollo Engineers in Broomfield, Colo. For 30 years, he has focused on water supply and reuse planning and implementation ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As much of the Western U.S. navigates a historic drought ...

This month, statewide regulations for what’s technically called “direct potable reuse” went into effect. The rules allow wastewater — yes, the water that goes down the drain or is flushed down the ...

Drinking water being processed at the Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant in San Marcos. Courtesy San Diego County Water Authority California regulators on Tuesday cleared the way for widespread ...

Once mocked as “toilet to tap,” the practice of directly treating wastewater for drinking could be legal in Arizona by the end of this year. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is likely ...

Castle Rock, Colo. (AP) — 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 ...

Task group members will participate via conference call or web meeting, provide their perspective on the code, and assist in drafting recommendations for action. ONTARIO, CA — The International ...

Water is already a scarce commodity in the West, but if Colorado keeps growing we are going to need even more. One source could be treating reused drinking water. It's a scenario water providers and ...

Water has always been recycled. The water molecules in your shower or cup of coffee might just be the same molecules that rained on dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago. With the technological ...

Drinking water standards have been updated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to improve water reuse regulation for consumption, the first regulation of its kind across the ...