‘Toilet to tap’ bottled water offered in a taste test.
One California company wants you to drink wastewater.
Yes, you read that right.
It’s been affectionately nicknamed "toilet to tap" water.
RELATED: Texas’ water future: More toilet-to-tap, aquifer storage Company officials set up a stand to give away free bottled water to encourage people to try it.
Some wouldn’t give it a shot, while others had no problem gulping it down.
California Recycled Wastewater Filtration went through the legislative process to be able to bottle the recycled water but they don’t actually have plans to do so.
Instead, the taste test was to try to get people comfortable with the idea of recycled wastewater so it could eventually be pumped directly into the water system.
Would you be comfortable with the recycled wastewater?
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DiNapoli: State must maintain water quality vigilance.
Alarm bells sounded in Hoosick Falls when its water supply showed up dangerous levels of Perfluorooctanoic acid, a water and oil repellent, used since the 1940s in products including non-stick cookware, stain-resistant carpeting and microwave popcorn bags.
Now, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state must raise the level of oversight on hundreds of New York water systems to safeguard public health.
Based on the Comptroller’s review of water system reports, nearly 90 percent of the state’s 192 public water systems detected contaminants equaling or exceeding limits.
"How do we protect drinking water supplies so we don’t have any of these chemicals?"
Additionally, the report said, it is incumbent on the state health department to maintain a up-to-date database on contaminants that could pose water system hazards, along with detailing their maximum allowable levels.
In the wake of the Newburgh and Hoosick Falls incidents and the fallout from serious lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, $2.5 billion was allocated in this year’s state budget for water infrastructure projects, including $120 million for remediation of contaminated supplies; at least $20 million for the replacement of lead drinking water service lines; and up to $10 million for information technology systems related to water supplies.
By DiNapoli’s estimate more than $5 billion has been spent by the state and federal government on local water systems over the past 20 years.
Among the recommendations from the Comptroller’s Office: •Create a statewide response plan, with public input, to effectively address drinking water contamination incidents.
"Water contamination incidents in the Village of Hoosick Falls and the City of Newburgh illustrate the vulnerabilities of the current regulatory structure," the comptroller’s office said in its report.

Some anti-drought programs face cuts.
But with the drought now broken by an unprecedented wet season and snow pack, it’s possible to look back and see the positives develop, especially when it comes to the state budget.
Many homeowners dealt with the stress of monitoring water usage in their homes to avoid fines and penalties, with the result that water was conserved.
It worked, mostly.
“But now we know that drought is becoming a regular occurrence and water conservation must be a part of our everyday life.” It’s also part of the 2017-18 state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Thursday is the constitutional deadline to send the budget to the governor’s desk.
The new fiscal year begins July 1 For example, money being allocated to the Department of Water Resources’ Save Our Water Campaign was cut from $2 million to $1 million in the May version of the budget and now the funding for the project may be eliminated from the budget completely.
In that moment, it seemed as if the people of California breathed a collective sigh of relief.
But what can Californians expect to see different?
“This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said.

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism wins top national award for drinking water project.
“Failure at the Faucet” was one of 85 honorees among more than the 1,300 entries.
“This award is a testament to the stellar work of the Center’s staff and the inspiring leadership of Andy and Dee Hall, who have built the Center into one of the top investigative nonprofit newsrooms in the country,” said Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and president of the Center’s board of directors.
Reporting for the series began in 2015 as part of The Confluence, an experimental news project of the Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
It is an example of in the UW’s vaunted Wisconsin Idea in action.
In early 2016, the Center was the first to report on the dangers posed by Wisconsin’s 176,000 lead service lines and the state’s high childhood lead poisoning rate, which rivals that of Flint, Michigan.
Throughout 2016, the Center continued its coverage of the risk of lead in state drinking water, including high levels at two state prisons.
The Center’s staff, along with UW-Madison’s J475 students, won an award for "Best Investigative Story or Series" for the "Failure at the Faucet" series, which revealed numerous threats to drinking water quality in Wisconsin, including lead, arsenic, radium, strontium, human and animal bacteria and viruses and pesticides.
UW-Madison journalism faculty: Deborah Blum and Katy Culver.
The organization is “dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.” Last year’s SDX award winner in the same category was “Rape on the Night Shift,” by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporting Program at University of California-Berkeley, Frontline, Univision and KQED.

City of Raymond boil water advisory lifted.
RAYMOND, Miss.
(WJTV) — The precautionary boil water advisory issued for the City of Raymond has been lifted.
The Mississippi State Department of Health said the notice was issued due to a system wide pressure loss from a power outage caused by the storm.
Below are some tips from the Mississippi State Department of Health on what you should do after a boil water advisory is lifted: Flush faucets for a total of 10 minutes to introduce system water throughout house plumbing.
Example: 1 faucet — run for 10 minutes 2 faucets — run both for 5 minutes 3 faucets — run each for 3-4 minutes Flush any faucet a minimum of 2 minutes to ensure clearing of the line serving the faucet.
Discard any drinks, ice, food, etc, made during the boil water notice.
with “cleared” system water.
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It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but sometime over the past decade or so, the general population of this country formed a belief that bottled water is better than tap water — and safer and healthier. It’s pretty ingenious, if not shocking, how bottled water suppliers created an entire industry by convincing millions of people to pay between 240 and 10,000 times more for water in a bottle than getting it from the supply we’re already paying for in our homes. TAP WATER IS CHEAPER These days, a 16-ounce bottle of “spring” water goes for about a dollar, which works out to about $8 a gallon, twice the cost of milk and on par with bottled soft drinks. Home delivery of water in those great big, heavy bottles is less per gallon but still costs around $40 a month, according to online averages. How does that compare with the water coming out of your kitchen tap? The average household cost for town water in the U.S. is 66 cents per cubic meter, which is 265 gallons, or 4,240 8-ounce glasses…

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but sometime over the past decade or so, the general population of this country formed a belief that bottled water is better than tap water — and safer and healthier. It’s pretty ingenious, if not shocking, how bottled water suppliers created an entire industry by convincing millions of people to pay between 240 and 10,000 times more for water in a bottle than getting it from the supply we’re already paying for in our homes. TAP WATER IS CHEAPER These days, a 16-ounce bottle of “spring” water goes for about a dollar, which works out to about $8 a gallon — twice the cost of milk and on par with bottled soft drinks. Home delivery of water in those great big, heavy bottles is less per gallon but still costs around $40 a month, according to online averages. How does that compare with the water coming out of your kitchen tap? The average household cost for town water in the U.S. is 66 cents per cubic meter, which is 265 gallons, or 4,240 8-ounce glasses of water — enough to last the average person 530 days (consuming eight 8-ounce glasses per day). Another way to price it: Sixty-two 8-ounce…

Few things are more valuable than time.
Without a home water tap, Manjula had no choice but to carry a 20-30 pound water container back-and-forth each day to a community water tank about a kilometer from her home.
Water.org discovered that something keeping moms like Manjula from providing safe water for their families was a lack of access to the financing needed to construct a water tap.
This insight led us to create WaterCredit, enabling the world’s poor with access to small, affordable loans.
It’s smart, simple and sustainable.
More importantly, it helps the people we serve solve their immediate need, and continues to enrich their lives long after the original loan has been repaid.
For Manjula, the loan allowed her to build a home water tap.
Now the time she used to spend collecting water each day can be spent with her two boys.
And with more time and energy to invest in caring for the ‘kakada’ flowers she sells, Manjula can earn 2,000 Rupees a month – enough to repay her loan.
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The journey of our water from source to tap is long, and not one we think much about. For most of us, our water starts high in the mountains, hundreds of miles away. From there, water flows across natural and working lands until a portion is channeled to water pipes that move water to our faucets, to farms, and to various types of businesses. Most often we think of those pipes as being our main water infrastructure, but upstream lands play a key role in capturing, storing and moving our water. By conserving these lands, we can better protect our water and generate additional benefits for people and nature. Today, approximately 40 percent of the land in urban source watersheds of the world’s largest cities show high to moderate levels of degradation. This degradation impacts the present and future quality and reliability of water flows. However, by investing in nature, we can reduce these impacts. A new report released by The Nature Conservancy, Beyond the Source: The environmental, economic and community benefits of source water protection, shows that forest protection, reforestation, and the use of cover crops can help four out of five of the 4,000…

The San Ysidro School District continues to distribute bottled water at its three oldest campuses following findings of elevated levels of lead, copper and bacteria in plumbing at one of the schools. Last October, an employee at La Mirada Elementary noticed discolored water in faucets during pressure tests for plumbing leaks. Water to all drinking fountains, sinks and faucets was shut off immediately. “For the safety of the kids it was a very easy decision,” said district Superintendent Julio Fonseca. Water quality reports from the Otay Water District indicated that the water itself was not contaminated, but rather that the water was contaminated by aging plumbing. The district has…