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I hope this doesn't remove public pressure for a sensible water conservancy policy in the west.

I just found out that LA doesn't reuse their wastewater.

Here this whole time they have been talking about things like building a pipeline from the Great Lakes and they don't even treat and reuse.

I believe they have all of the purple pipe infrastructure in place, and they currently dump the "output" into an aquifer which is not directly tapped [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/recycled-drinking-...

There was a huge campaign against "toilet water" when it was proposed.

Yeah, I recall the provocative slogan "ass to glass" being passed around.

How do people even claim that? http://www.lacsd.org/waterreuse/

Yes, there is no potable reuse at the moment because their initial plant opened during an election year & valley secession movement, but a pilot plant for indirect potable reuse is in the works and current reclamation efforts still yielded 35.4% of total county sanitation districts effluent per FY 2014-2015.

Everyone wants a 'sensible' policy, no one agrees on what 'sensible' means.

And no one wants to give up their water rights.

I agree with what I believe is your central point, which is that the issue is difficult and there are no clear answers. This makes it all the more important that we continue to talk about solutions.

I agree with what I believe is your central point

What part don't you agree with?

I don't disagree, just reiterating my hope that the obstacles you point out don't lead to the problem being passed over as too politically intractable.

Oh, if you want to discuss it, I am available.

With the prop system of CA, who knows?

I thought the state was being responsible for the last while, and then the last election just pushed in $18B unfunded spending on the General Fund via Prop 51.

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