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Bookmark or Share- Recycled Water - Water Education FoundationRecycled water is also produced by purifying wastewater for safe use in drinking (potable) water and for non-potable uses such as irrigation. Recycling wastewater provides a new, costly but renewable water resource that can bolster local water supplies, save energy and reduce the amount of sewage treatment plant effluent emptied into rivers and ...
- Potable Water - Water Education FoundationPotable water, also known as drinking water, comes from surface and ground sources and is treated to levels that that meet state and federal standards for consumption. Water from natural sources is treated for microorganisms, bacteria, toxic chemicals, viruses and fecal matter.
- Surface Water vs. Groundwater - Water Education FoundationThe nation’s surface-water resources—the water in the nation’s rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs—are vitally important to our everyday life. The main uses of surface water include drinking-water and other public uses, irrigation uses, and for use by the thermoelectric-power industry to cool electricity-generating equipment.
- Water Kids - Water Education FoundationThe water you drank this morning might have been the same water that once rained down on a Tyrannosaurus, froze on a woolly mammoth, flowed down the Nile to bring new silt to an Egyptian farm – or filled the bathing pool of Julius Caesar. The water we use now is the same supply that has been on Earth for billions of years.
- Water Education Foundation - Everything about California water that mattersThe Water Education Foundation has a full-time opening for an experienced, energetic and motivated News & Publications Director who can elevate our online and print publications with sharp editing, innovative storytelling and a passion for clearly explaining the complexities and nuances of water resource issues.
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