KPCC– On Tuesday, California’s State Water Board adopted a new method to augment the water supply. It plans to add recycled wastewater to reservoirs with something called “indirect potable reuse.”

Randy Bernard is the Recycled Water Unit Chief with the California Water Resources Control Board. He joined Take Two’s A Martinez to explain the new system for recycling wastewater.

Before this week, the state’s Water Board could only add wastewater into the ground, where it is filtered through aquifers.

“This new move is to augment our potable water, which means taking municipal wastewater and mixing that with surface water plants,” Bernard said.

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