Publication: NBC News

UCLA Expert: David Jassby: Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis:  Treated wastewater could soon become a bigger part of the West's water portfolio. 

UCLA News: Jassby explained that treated wastewater already flows through streams and rivers across the country and pointed to major utilities’ track record of very few water-borne disease outbreaks as a testament to the capacity of treatment technology.  “The level of treatment that wastewater reuse entities use to recycle wastewater is far higher than what we apply to a river or groundwater.”

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