Tucson approves plan for $86 million treatment facility turning wastewater into drinking water
Tucson officials are moving forward on a plan to create southern Arizona’s first water treatment facility that turns wastewater into drinking water. Tucson City Councilmembers voted to approve a proposal to use some $86 million worth of Bureau of Reclamation funding to build the new treatment facility and save Colorado River water as a result. Tucson Water Director Jon Kmiec says things began about 16 months ago, when the water utility asked the agency to fund an advanced water purification plant in Tucson’s northwest side.
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