Water Recycling Reduces Drinking Water Scarcity

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Water Recycling

A Regional Administrator named Felicia Marcus once stated, “Water recycling is a critical element for managing our water resources.” Her statement symbolizes modern technological ideals to increase the reuse of water. Also known as water reclamation, water recycling is the process of extracting previously used water and treating it for reuse. Currently, modern technologies have allowed the application of recycled water to enter many different areas. Reclaimed water is cleaned and redistributed for land irrigation, to recharge ground water, for industrial applications (cooling the water for power plants and oil refineries), for toilet water, to irrigate golf courses and to create artificial snow. By utilizing the many capabilities of recycled water, less water is taken from natural creeks. Saving our fresh drinking water creates a huge push to increase the use of recycled water on both a local and global scale.

Clean drinking water, may be the primary motivation to recycle water, however many there are many other benefits. By reusing water, the overall amount of discharged water waste is decreased. Instead of putting previously used water into our natural water ways the water is treated and reused. It does not directly re-enter the water streams, but instead is treated and then redistributed straight back into the pipes to be reused. This tremendously lowers our overall level of water pollution in small creeks and rivers. With a rapidly growing population, the amount of human waste and water consumption are increasing. Therefore, by lowering human demand for natural water, fewer ecosystems are destroyed. The water also prevents further extraction of natural water from the environment. By reusing old water,...

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