Recycling recycled water plan

Seven years after the death of a controversial plan to recycle sewage water into drinking water, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has resurrected the idea as one way Los Angeles could provide much-needed water to its growing population. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

The reclamation concept - at one time opposed by Villaraigosa - is among a dozen ideas that will be proposed by the mayor and the Department of Water and Power in a new water-supply action plan set to be announced today.

The proposal outlines how Los Angeles will conserve and recycle enough water over the next 20 years to serve an expected 500,000 more Angelenos without having to import more water.