Although Texas is a water reclamation leader in the country for quantity of water
reclaimed, it falls behind both California and Florida in residential applications. The
concept of residential reuse has some barriers to overcome prior to implementation on a
broad scale in Texas. The two case studies, St. Petersburg, Florida, and the El Dorado
Irrigation District of El Dorado County, California, describe extensive reuse programs in
response not only to impending water shortages but also to effluent disposal limitation
requirements. Major factors that limit residential reuse in Texas include the following:
cost, expediency and negative public perception. Two other considerations exist when
determining the feasibility of implementing residential reuse: income level and irrigation
needs. Most of the successful reuse programs examined were for higher income areas.
Also, irrigation expectations and needs of the residences play a major factor in the
success of the program. In arid environments planted with drought-tolerant plants,
landscape irrigation becomes less of a priority. Further limitations that specifically affect
Texas’ expanding its water reclamation programs include the legal issues of existing
water rights and direct versus indirect reuse. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22356 |
| Date | 21 November 2013 |
| Creators | Dent, Kelly McCaughey |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works., Restricted |
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