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Texas using waste water for drinking water?

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    Water shortage forcing officials to get creative

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A tall cool drink of water make some refreshing but what if it came straight from here.

The idea of building an appointment to faucet water treatment system is being considered in the town of brown would.

Bob Valentine and his wife who were storming the capitol grounds Friday.

And the typical reaction to this idea someone that I -- Real good filtration system because back Oreo Oreo understands the reaction if so what are lots of water -- you levels or requiring probably wouldn't -- it.

-- running out -- rodeo is the director of innovative water technologies with the Texas water development board.

With the state population expected to hit fifty million people in fifty years Arroyo says new water resources must be found.

The crowd can be a very persuasive argument to -- new sources of water.

Much of -- state as this map indicates remains under drought conditions.

The dots on this map will they identify community water systems that are struggling under the dry conditions so we -- at a time.

No I don't think we're out of time.

Overall there's some communities -- might be closer to that.

Time wise too.

Find themselves in a very difficult situation.

Building plants to treat salt water is a key part of the state plan.

The water would come out of the golf.

And from oceans of underground -- highlighted in yellow want a -- computer screen so when I was saying that we had a pretty much over the -- has learned.

Brown wouldn't unfortunately does not have a talk refer to tap into.

-- a phone interview the director of utilities there told me for him the hard sell isn't convincing residents it's okay to drink the treated wastewater.

It is it is hard to explain -- -- two point thousand.

It we have to close governor restaurants that -- -- to closed schools to shut that industry as we don't have water.

-- is confident the new treatment plant will be better than any already online.

-- sources and everything that happens it on the lack so I wouldn't do it.

If I didn't like it do you -- and.

-- two more reviews construction and brown would could begin.

By February of next year.

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