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Hoping to avoid the hostile community reaction that helped kill the city's first bid to build a recycled-water project, DWP leaders said Friday that they're taking a new plan to the public early to win support. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.
"The idea is not to repeat the mistakes of the past and to learn from those who have managed to successfully roll out a water-recycling process," said DWP General Manager H. David Nahai.
"I'm convinced that we can overcome people's reticence," Nahai said Friday at the DWP's first community forum to pitch the idea of recycled water.
The estimated $1 billion project is at least 10 years away from completion and DWP officials are now devising a plan to pay for it.
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