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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued on July 11th a document titled:

2017 Potable Reuse Compendium (“Compendium”)

The focus of the Compendium is the use of wastewater for drinking water.

The individual topics addressed include:

• Extent of potable water reuse in the United States/world
• Cost of potable water reuse
• Treatment processes used in potable water use
• Seven case studies on indirect and direct potable reuse facilities in the United States
• How and why facilities implement potable water reuse
• Safe Drinking Water Act/Clean Water Act issues
• Constituents and potable reuse water sources
• Rick Analysis
• Treatment technologies
• Alternative treatment trains for potable reuse
• Source control
• Environmental and engineered buffers
• Training
• Operating and Monitoring
• Epidemiological and related studies
• Public acceptance
• Research

A link to the EPA Compendium can be found here.