Peter Annin

What's failed in some of these systems is public acceptance because of rushed or inadequate public relations to help people understand that this is safe and

It's mind over matter.

And we really need this as an additional water source in large swaths of the Sun Belt and around the world.

There haven't been.

I mean, there have been moments that the treatment system has picked up things that have gotten through the process.

So Orange County, again, as an example, and I think it was 2013, they had an industrial customer that illegally dumped a large amount of acetone into the sewage system.

And so that ended up getting into the wastewater system in Orange County, passing through the wastewater treatment.

It entered into Orange County's potable water recycling program.

The real-time monitoring picked it up.

They took a sample of their water.

That acetone was so diluted by that time that it did not reach the level of their permit with the state of California.

Oh.

And so they decided to let the water go through into the groundwater system where it dissipated and neither Orange County...

nor the state of California have detected acetone since.

At unsafe levels.

Because of the dilution level.

Yeah.

And this incident was first reported in my book.

And in my interview with Orange County, they said, you know, we don't regret that decision from a health standpoint.

But from a public relations standpoint, if we were to do that again, we would offload the water and shut down the system temporarily just for public relations.