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Can "toilet to tap" save the Colorado River?

Can "toilet to tap" save the Colorado River?

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Apr 15, 2025
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Lake Mead and the big “bathtub ring” as seen from next to Hoover Dam. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

The 40 million or so people who rely on the Colorado River for drinking, bathing, irrigating, cooling data centers or power plants, or filling their swimming pools with have a problem. The amount of water being pulled out of the riv…

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