[FRIAM] Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water (fwd)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Raymond Parks wrote:
> The latest improvement to the wastewater treatment plant cost $70 million.
Are we talking about sewage treatment, or drinking water?   Do you mean 
this project?

 http://www.sjcdrinkingwater.org/water_treatment/index.htm

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Ok, so ABQ is spending about $140 per person on that plant ($70 million 
> for 500,000 people).   OC is spending $96 per person on theirs ($480 
> million for 5 million people).   
Apparently the OC drinking water system takes output of traditional 
sewage treatment as input, so it's not toilet-to-top end to end.  ;-)

Marcus