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June 20, 2005
Tucson projected growth requires new sources of water.
By 2050, Pima County, Arizona could be home to nearly 2 million people, roughly double today's population.
The area can pump only so much from the desert without killing more of our rivers and streams.
Tucson is growing so fast in such a dry region that they are headed toward drinking their our own sewage.
That is the central element of Tucson Water's plan for the next 50 years.
People just have to get used to the fact that our water resources are limited and that effluent is going to become a more important source as the population here grows," said Gail Cordy, senior hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson. "We're going to have to use it."
An effluent plant able to process 41 million gallons a day would cost $278 million in today's dollars, so water is going to cost more, as reported by the Arizona Daily Star.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at June 20, 2005 06:08 PM
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