The Blue Community / Blue City of Los Angeles announces a $740 million project to make waste water safe to drink, the magazine Newsweek reports. The city has been recycling wastewater for outdoor irrigation for places like golf courses and parks for a while, but this will be the first time the city has added recycled water to its drinking supply, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the nation’s largest municipal water and power utility, is hoping to create a sustainable source of drinking water for the city by producing 20 million gallons of purified recycled water a day, it said in a project announcement. The project, named the Groundwater Replenishment Project, is one of the largest potable water reuse projects in the state and is scheduled for completion in 2027.
