By Kate Duffy | Cronkite News, Phoenix Business Journal
Recently, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality released a proposed roadmap outlining plans to convert treated wastewater into purified drinking water.
“Advanced water purification has the potential to provide a reliable source of purified water that can alleviate water scarcity issues faced in much of Arizona,” said Randall Matas, deputy director of the water quality division at ADEQ. “The additional source of sustainable healthy drinking water will really support Arizona’s growing population and economy.”
The Advanced Water Purification Program roadmap establishes and explains the technical standards to which purification technology will be held.
“I can understand while people would be skeptical of the idea of drinking purified wastewater, but purifying water is fundamentally no different than the natural water cycle and, in most cases, produces purified water that is cleaner than any water obtained from streams or groundwater.” – David Johnson, chair of Rose Law Group’s water department
