{"id":8834,"date":"2021-03-06T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T01:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2021-03-06T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T01:15:16","slug":"toilet-to-tap-water-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/06\/toilet-to-tap-water-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet-to-tap water bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Florida Bill for toilet-to-tap water is gaining traction after it passed through the Environmental, Agriculture, and Flooding Subcommittee 17-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"991\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZA3INPZTQKEPF7HOZABNN24U5Y.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZA3INPZTQKEPF7HOZABNN24U5Y.jpg 991w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZA3INPZTQKEPF7HOZABNN24U5Y-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZA3INPZTQKEPF7HOZABNN24U5Y-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toilet-to-tap is a system in which cities would stop dumping sewage water and instead, turn it into healthy drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor at FGCU, Lauren Redfern, believes this system could be a viable solution to help combat Florida\u2019s booming population growth (estimated to grow 23 percent by 2040 according to the Senate Bill).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s be nice not to have a big tank of water, these damns or these lakes to create drinking water. You could use a water source that is already there with the waste water,\u201d explained Redfern.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest hurdle moving forward: trying to convince the public it is safe to drink former sewage water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnce the public kind of see\u2019s the water is high quality, there is a great amount of acceptance but before, when you just hear that you have a toilet to tap water the public is kind of concerned about that,\u201d said Redfern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to make sewage drinkable <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/wastewater-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/wastewater-cycle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Bill for toilet-to-tap water is gaining traction after it passed through the Environmental, Agriculture, and Flooding Subcommittee 17-0.\u00a0 Toilet-to-tap is a system in which cities would stop dumping&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}