The Orange County Water District's wastewater recycling program uses ponds, manmade waterfalls and technology to keep wells from running dry — a model for other regions facing water scarcity. Orange ...

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SALEM — Irrigating crops with treated wastewater is widely considered a promising but underused way to help relieve drought impacts in Oregon and across the West. Given that consensus, it would seem ...

California isn’t recycling nearly enough water, according to a new report by UCLA researchers, who say the state should treat and reuse more wastewater to help address the Colorado River’s chronic ...

Sheep graze among poplars at the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission’s Biocycle Farm, which irrigates about 400 acres of trees with treated wastewater from Eugene and Springfield, Ore.