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One of the Coastal Commission’s conditions is approval by the CPUC before the desal project can break ground. But in the Coastal Commission’s staff report recommending approval, it concludes that while the Pure Water Monterey Expansion will produce enough water in the short term to meet growth demands, in the long run an additional water source will “likely” be needed.

In May 2022, Paul Sciuto, general manager of Monterey One Water, was under his house building a shed when he got a call from Brent Buche, then-general manager of the

Californians could drink highly purified sewage water that is piped directly into drinking water supplies for the first time under proposed rules unveiled by state water officials.

Waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing before it’s piped directly to taps, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply. The state’s new draft rules are more than a decade in the making.

Waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing before it’s piped directly to taps, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply. The state’s new draft rules are more than a decade in the making.

The project will increase biogas production from the plant’s four digesters by more than 150

Turning wastewater into drinking water in Monterey

 E-Mail Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates. As this years below-average rainfall accentuates the problem, a public-private partnership in the Monterey/Salinas region has created a novel water recycling program that could serve as a model for parched communities everywhere. As Stanford civil engineers report in the journal Water, this now urbanized region, still known for farmin...