Wichita Falls
City in north Texas, USA.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How Sewage Recycling Works | Wesley Crump | subject | During the 2011-2012 drought Wichita Falls faced running out of water by 2015, so it piped its sewage plant’s effluent directly into its drinking water purification plant. |
How Sewage Recycling Works — Wesley Crump (2025)
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Wichita Falls, Texas, went through the worst drought in its history in 2011 and 2012.
- Role: subject
- In the article: During the 2011-2012 drought Wichita Falls faced running out of water by 2015, so it piped its sewage plant’s effluent directly into its drinking water purification plant. After two months of testing the emergency direct potable reuse system started in July 2014 and ran for exactly one year until a 2015 flood refilled the reservoirs. The city reclaimed nearly two billion gallons and was the first US city to do direct potable reuse at this scale.
- Why it matters: The article’s central case study: the first city-scale direct potable reuse in the US, which showed the approach could meet standards.