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Resilience
California wastewater recycling
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California prepares to transform sewage into pure drinking water under new rules

California is set to approve regulations for transforming wastewater into pure drinking water. Experts say the highly treated water isn't 'toilet-to-tap.'
Impacts
How the water you flush becomes the water you drink
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How the water you flush becomes the water you drink

Is it really safe to reuse anything we flush down the toilet? Francis de los Reyes explains the science of wastewater treatment.

Resilience
As Rio Grande shrinks, El Paso plans for uncertain water future
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As Rio Grande shrinks, El Paso plans for uncertain water future

With a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative sources of water and are turning to innovative approaches — desalination, transporting water via pipelines, and “toilet-to-tap” wastewater recycling.
Politics
Newsom calls for urgent action on water
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With California expected to lose 10% of its water within 20 years, Newsom calls for urgent action

With California enduring historic drought amplified by global warming, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday released a new plan to adapt to the state’s hotter, drier future by capturing and storing more water, recycling more wastewater and desalinating seawater and salty groundwater.

Politics
As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look
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As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look

Around the U.S., cities are increasingly warming to an idea that once induced gags: Sterilize wastewater from toilets, sinks and factories, and eventually pipe it back into homes and businesses as tap water.

Good News
recycled wastewater to drinking water
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People should drink way more recycled wastewater

Filtration technology produces water so pure, it would actually harm you if they didn’t put minerals back into it.
Impacts
How climate change hit wine country
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How climate change hit wine country

Sunscreen on grapes. Toilet water that is treated and used for irrigation. Napa Valley winemakers are taking extreme steps in the face of climate change.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Trump policies could curb progress on electric trucks and buses

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Trump's approach to U.S. power grid could slow critical expansion

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Trump's advisers push to reshape U.S. climate report

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

CLIMATE
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Climate extremes disrupt U.S. with blizzards, wildfires and record heat

Water pipes being installed in a trench.

Wildfires threaten drinking water as ash and chemicals pollute watersheds