Around the U.S., cities are increasingly warming to an idea that once induced gags: Sterilize wastewater from toilets, sinks and factories, and eventually pipe it back into homes and businesses as tap ...

After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped ...

The membrane bioreactor segment of the Grace F. Napolitano Pure Water Southern California Innovation Center in Carson, California. (Edvard Pettersson/Courthouse News) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Can wastewater ...

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 ...

Sheep graze among poplars at the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission’s Biocycle Farm, which irrigates about 400 acres of trees with treated wastewater from Eugene and Springfield, Ore.

SALEM — Irrigating crops with treated wastewater is widely considered a promising but underused way to help relieve drought impacts in Oregon and across the West. Given that consensus, it would seem ...