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WaterWorld Weekly: June 16, 2011

Officials say the $700 million dollar plan will reduce the city's reliance on imported water supplies. Currently, more than half of its drinking water comes from Northern California or the Colorado River.

The city's Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Encino already pumps about 40 million gallons of reclaimed water daily for irrigation and industrial uses.

Under the proposed plan, 30,000 acre feet of that water would undergo further advanced treatment processes -- including microfiltration, reverse osmoses and UV purification -- before being injected into wells under the Hansen dam.

BY 2035, LA DWP aims to increase its use of reclaimed wastewater to 8 percent.

[story2] Water officials in Portland, Oregon, decided to drain a drinking water reservoir there after a man was caught on tape urinating into it.

Portland Water Bureau security spotted the 21-year-old relieving himself and immediately shut down the supply from Reservoir Number 1.

The 8 million gallons of water in the reservoir is already chlorinated and ready for distribution, so although it most likely would not have been a health hazard, the Water Bureau decided to drain it.

Officials say it will cost taxpayers around $32,000 dollars.

[story3] An outbreak of at Lemoore Naval Air Station in California has prompted officials to take water samples and warn residents and employees to NOT drink the base's tap water.

Twenty-nine people at the base became ill with severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. While the cause is still unknown at this time, one possibility being explored is contaminated drinking water.

Tests are currently being conducted and results are expected on Thursday.

In the meantime, water fountains have been shut off and restaurants on the base have stopped serving fountain drinks.

[story4] Jeffrey Pruett, owner and operator of two wastewater management companies in Monroe, Louisiana, will serve 21 months in prison and pay fines amounting to $850,000 for multiple violations of the Clean Water Act.

Pruett's companies, Louisiana Land & Water Company and LWC Management Company, provided sewer and wastewater treatment and services for a number of residential subdivisions in Monroe.

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