How One Town Solves Pollution and Saves Water - Jerry Gentry - January 1973

Jerry Gentry

Picture yourself in a tree-studded, aquatic park with sparkling blue lakes and grassy green slopes. You can picnic, fish for bass or take a leisurely boat ride. Now imagine that this beautiful park lies only yards downstream from a sewage treatment plant. Add to this nearly incredible picture a desert terrain with brown baked hillsides, and only ten inches of rainfall annually. This is a picture of a remarkable modern sewage treatment and water reclamation project at Santee, California. This farsighted town is known worldwide. The story of Santee is a lesson for the whole world to view. It is an illustration of how a serious pollution problem can be solved. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library