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Palm Beach County and Broward county combined use approximately 530 Million Gallons per day. These two counties alone also send 500 Million gallons of water out into the Atlantic ocean. If you ask me, that is a lot of water to dump in the ocean each day!
What is the answer? Reclaim the water. Does that sound gross to you? Most people think this is gross yet they have no idea that all water is actually reclaimed to begin with. All the water we have on the earth is ALL the water we have on the earth. No more, no less. So it is all recycled over and over again.
The reclaimed water comes in Purple Pipes. That is how you know it is reclaimed water. And that is why we have a Reverse Osmosis water system for our whole house. City water is filthy anyway. Here in Wellington they put bleach and flouride in our water and those are two chemicals we know have serious side effects therefore I prefer my family not be exposed to them. So by the time the water has gone through our Reverse Osmosis system we have pure and clean water.
Reclaiming water is good for the environment. Is sustains rich life in the Wetlands. We can no longer take water from the Everglades. We will have serious droughts if we continue to take water from the Everglades. The cities that want t add growth must have another way to get water to new developments and more people. Orange County in California uses reclaimed water and Broward and Palm Beach counties can learn from them.
There are mandatory building requirements in West DelRay Beach, Boynton Beach and Wellington that if you are going to build it must include Purple Pipes with Reclaimed water. Palm Beach county only reuses 28% of its' water yet Broward county only reclaims 6%. These figures must change to become responsible water users.
The residents of South Florida need to get used to this idea and start to accept it as a part of living in a populated area. If we keep using the water the way we are we will be sorry next spring when a drought would be much worse than this year.
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Katerina, We have an exploratory program dubbed "toilet to tap" for recycling water. I think the opponents have called it that.
But we also have another program that is a little more palatible. It is using "grey water" for landscape uses. Grey water is water from your washing machine, dishwasher, etc. and NOT from the toilet. A simple filtering process makes this water usable for your lawn. It can be done right at your home. You use this same water twice. Hence you use a lot less water from the water company.
Bill Roberts