Planning Water Reuse: Development of Reuse Theory and the Input-Output Model. Volume I. Fundamentals

摘要

Municipalities in the west are searching for new sources of water at a time when very little undeveloped water remains. An increasing number of communities are planning to meet growing water needs through water reuse. In Denver, for example, a potable water reuse facility of 100 mgd is being planned for construction during the 1990s. An alternative to potable water reuse is the exchange of treated municipal wastewater for unused high-quality agricultural water. This type of water reuse promises to be less expensive than potable reuse. The demonstration shows that water reuse exchange with agriculture has the potential to meet all but the very highest municipal water projections for the next 40 years in the basin.