Harbor Lights: Recycled drinking water
It wasn’t the first time I’d raised a glass (or plastic cup) in a toast. It was the first time I’d toasted with a hard hat on my head and water in my glass that had been in someone’s toilet just a few days ago. Fortunately, I couldn’t really tell the difference between it and the tap water I used to swallow my vitamins an hour earlier. No, it wasn’t some twisted dream or an audition for a reality show. I was standing at the West Basin Municipal Water District’s (WBMWD) El Segundo purification plant with three employees whose mission in life is to ensure the fresh water that flows from our faucets continues to flow. As times get tougher, we’re learning not to take for granted things like municipal services that were always just “there.” In good times and bad, for as long as anyone can remember, when you turn on your tap, turn on your garden hose or do a load of laundry, clean water comes from some unknown source to get the job done. The past, in this case, is not an accurate predictor of the future. Last April, the WBMWD board voted to cut the supply of water it sells to the agencies who sell it to us by as much as 15 percent. Residents and businesses didn’t find less water coming…
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