Water Reuse: Potential for Expanding the Nation's Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater
Committee on the Assessment of Water Reuse as an Approach to Meeting Future Water Supply Needs; National Research Council
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309224594 9780309224598 | 363 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This report presents a portfolio of treatment options available to mitigate water quality issues in reclaimed water along with new analysis suggesting that the risk of exposure to certain microbial and chemical contaminants from drinking reclaimed water does not appear to be any higher than the risk experienced in at least some current drinking water treatment systems, and may be orders of magnitude lower.