Is toilet water the same as sink water? Could you drink it? Would you want to? Here’s the lowdown on what’s flowing through ...

TOILET TO TAP IS A CRUDE GROSS, BUT THE MOST DIRECT DESCRIPTION OF HOW WESTMINSTER PLANS TO RESOLVE ITS ACHILLES HEEL, A SCARCE WATER SUPPLY. I THINK IT SOUNDS DISGUSTING. I WOULDN’T WANT TO DRINK IT.

When you flush the toilet, you probably hope to never see the contents again, especially in a glass of drinking water, but Orange County Water District is touting the benefits of the toilet to tap. In ...

Arizona cities and utilities will soon be able to get permits to deliver drinking water to faucets that just days earlier had been flushed down the toilet. The Arizona Department of Environmental ...

If you were to drink improperly recycled toilet water, it could really hurt you — but probably not in the way you’re thinking. Advanced purification technology so thoroughly cleans wastewater of feces ...

“Tucson plans toilet-to-tap plant”. So reads a front-page headline in Tuesday’s Arizona Daily Star. In mid-article, we read, “Please see TOILET, page A2”. Turn the page. And there we find “Toilet” in ...

On a hot day, there’s nothing quite like a refreshing drink of water. But how would you feel if that water was sourced from the sewer? As cities across the West brace for a drier future, they’re ...

In La Paz, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Marta, Colombia, water service from the local utility can be erratic or nonexistent. Pictured: Neighborhood kids stand next to a rain ...