Drought means more "Toilet To Tap!"

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Drought means more "Toilet To Tap!" Big Springs, Texas is rapidly drying up. In order to have enough water it is preparing to tap its citizens for their supplies. Or rather what they flush. This town will join several communities in California, Arizona, and the ISS space station in doing so when their water reclamation plant comes online. Before you gross out, toilet to tap isn't literally toilets go flush and come out your tap. The nasty goes through a very complex reclamation process that is like a Britta filter on steroids. The filters grab at everything, the nasty, salts, even traces of medicine get filtered out. The water is almost as good as distilled when it reaches your glass. Regular non-recycling human waste water plants have to filter out some pretty nasty things too. They are processing the contents of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, dams, and aquifers for drinking water. Except for the aquifer sources, all the above come with biological waste. That's dead fish, fish by product as fish excrete just like we do, and dead fish. Then there's the occasional human swimmer who decides that he or she doesn't want to go to land to let go some personal water, and human litter.