Read the full article by Tony Davis (Arizona Daily Star)
“News about Tucson Water’s plans to treat sewage effluent to drinking quality coincided this week with national headlines: New research finds much treated wastewater across the U.S. is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals.’
Tucson just signed an agreement with the federal government to get $86.7 million to build a plant to treat sewage effluent to drinking quality.
In part, that’s intended to serve an area on the metro area’s northwest side whose wells have been closed due to contamination by the PFAS compounds known as forever chemicals.
The utility says the recycled water the plant will treat starting in the early 2030s has already been treated at the Pima County-run Tres Rios wastewater plant and will get further ‘purification’ to make it drinkable.” …