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When you recognize all water is recycled, we re giving away the most precious, the most valuable resource, when we re sitting on a gold mine right here. i want to be super clear. the mayor of los angeles is saying that by 2035, the 4 million residents in the city hopefully will be drinking this stuff that started hours ago in our homes and showers and toilets? absolutely. you ll have the sweetest, cleanest, clearest water and it s going to be right here from l.a. already, los angeles has one small facility on terminal island that purifies water to the point that people can drink it. although now this water doesn t get piped back into homes. the plant goes through all the purifying steps that tillman and hyperion do, but then adds a couple of more steps at the end. first, reverse osmosis, filtering the water through microscopic fibers. then the final stage of the process which treats the water with ultraviolet light. this is the equivalent of the most extreme tanning bed you ve ev ....
you didn t do anything wrong. he just spit it out. he figured out how to get off of it. i have the hook, so he spit it out. the one that got away. in the rainy season, the l.a. river is fed by storm drains and snow melting in the mountains of the angeles crest above los angeles. in the long dry season, the main source of the l.a. river is the wastewater from the tillman reclamation plant in the san fernando valley. is it fair to say behind this door is the control hub for some pretty critical infrastructure? that s correct. this control room is a 24/7 operation. there s always someone here? there s always someone here. 800,000 residents are flushing their toilets, taking a shower, et cetera. that water, 35 millions of it, ends up here every day, all that have is recycled into lakes, eventually the l.a. river? you got it. ....
so in the data we saw just what we normally see. you can see the salinity. it s normal water quality parameters. translation, that s clean water. right now only marine creatures are benefiting from it. with this massive infrastructure project, that s supposed to change. los angeles has a plan to recycle almost all of its treated wastewater by 2035. this is an important goal for a city that imports most of its water from hundreds of miles away, from places where the water supply is threatened by drought and climate change. to hear more about l.a. s water independence plan, i met l.a. mayor eric garcetti. this is bigger than universal studios but we re going to ride just like universal studios. this is the largest treatment plant west of the mississippi. when you flush the toilet, when you run the garbage disposal, take your shower, 81% chance, somewhere in los angeles, it s going to end up here. arguably i think this peeves ....
Out there in the distance on that ridge line, you don t see any flames but you definitely see smoke. i smell the fire where i m standing very strongly right now. the biden administration wants to stop fires like this by stopping the effects of climate change. and they want to stop the effects of climate change by turning to infrastructure. but it isn t the infrastructure that you might think. in fact, it s infrastructure that, believe it or not, looks a lot like this. one of the more controversial parts of the american jobs plan is president biden s desire to broadly define infrastructure in order to solve a wide range of problems facing the u.s., including climate change. here in california, we re better positioned than most to see its impact. last year alone a record 4.2 ....
And how many dollars biden wanted to spend? tens of billions. all of this has to be done. so when you re saying, in terms of infrastructure and spending and fighting climate change, what that money is going to go towards are pipes that return activated sludge and things like that? that s right. once the water has been fully treated, it s ready for release. 12 hours ago, this water was being flushed down people s toilets and it made its way to the tillman treatment facility to be treated and recycled which is exactly what s happening here. it goes into the l.a. river, people kayak in it, go fly fishing in it. the majority of water in los angeles is treated by not recycled. and that s part of the problem. this is the water that started how many hours ago as somebody s toilet water? about a day. the entire process, about a day. so about a day ago, what i fleshed down my toilet has ended up with this. yes. ....