Check your local wastewater treatment plant if they distribute recycled water for irrigation purposes. It's high in nitrogen and will make just about everything grow. There are a couple plants in the Bay Area (CA) that give it away for free, you just have to haul it.
Refineries use 5+ million gallons of raw drinking water each day that could be used for drinking purposes. There are five refineries in the Bay Area. WW treatment plants could easily provide the water needed to meet the needs of the refineries and other industries for that matter. There are a number of WW treatment plants in the Bay Area that treat over 35 million gallons of water a day and pump it to the SF Bay. Unfortunately the drinking water treatment plants have franchise rights to the water these refineries and industries use and are not willing to give up the revenue, even if it makes environmental and social sense.
Refineries use 5+ million gallons of raw drinking water each day that could be used for drinking purposes. There are five refineries in the Bay Area. WW treatment plants could easily provide the water needed to meet the needs of the refineries and other industries for that matter. There are a number of WW treatment plants in the Bay Area that treat over 35 million gallons of water a day and pump it to the SF Bay. Unfortunately the drinking water treatment plants have franchise rights to the water these refineries and industries use and are not willing to give up the revenue, even if it makes environmental and social sense.