REUSE AND ABUSE

* A growing anxiety seems to be gripping residents of southwestern states frightened by the prospect of water reuse.

In San Diego, members of the Association of Concerned Taxpayers (ACT) has started a court action against the city’s water department, charging it with planning to secretly pump treated wastewater into the city’s reservoirs, despite a commitment in 1999 not to do so. The city contends that the process has been open and that it needs to consider ...

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