{"id":107520,"date":"2020-05-23T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/water-recycling-reuse-could-dramatically-slash-cities-need-for-fresh-water-resources-research-shows"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:43:27","slug":"water-recycling-reuse-could-dramatically-slash-cities-need-for-fresh-water-resources-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/water-recycling-reuse-could-dramatically-slash-cities-need-for-fresh-water-resources-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Water recycling, reuse could dramatically slash cities\u2019 need for fresh water resources, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-recycling-reuse-could-dramatically-slash-cities-need-for-fresh-water-resources-research-shows3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using Houston as a model, researchers at Rice\u2019s Brown School of Engineering have developed a plan that could reduce the need for surface water (from rivers, reservoirs or wells) by 28% by recycling wastewater to make it drinkable once again.<\/p>\n<p>While the cost of energy needed for future advanced purification systems would be significant, they say the savings realized by supplementing fresh water shipped from a distance with the \u201cdirect potable reuse\u201d of municipal wastewater would more than make up for the expense.<\/p>\n<p>And the water would be better to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Houston as a model, researchers at Rice\u2019s Brown School of Engineering have developed a plan that could reduce the need for surface water (from rivers, reservoirs or wells) by 28% by recycling wastewater to make it drinkable once again. While the cost of energy needed for future advanced purification systems would be significant, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}