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11 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read

Problems at a Los Angeles sewage treatment plant that caused a massive spill last month have severely reduced the region’s water recycling ability, forcing officials to divert millions of gallons of clean drinking water amid worsening drought.

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Even as California Gov. Gavin Newsom urges a voluntary 15% reduction in water usage, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant‘s inability to fully treat sewage has forced local officials to divert drinking water to uses normally served by recycled water. latimes.com/california/sto…

The sudden loss of millions of gallons of recycled water has alarmed experts and raised new questions about the plant’s ability to function in a warming climate.

“This is water we can’t afford to spare,” said one watershed management researcher.
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Experts describe the events at Hyperion as a bad domino effect: widespread — and unexplained — flooding at the facility triggered one of the largest sewage spills in Santa Monica Bay in a decade and knocked out pumps and electrical equipment. latimes.com/california/sto…

The spill and its aftermath caused the plant to continue discharging millions of gallons of partially treated wastewater into the ocean as well as creating problems with water recycling efforts.

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“The chain reaction that occurred that day and the longevity of the impacts have been stunning,” said Mark Gold, an adjunct professor with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment & Sustainability.
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