Statement: “That water (from purified sewage) is three to four times as expensive as anything else. Desalinated water has gotten cheaper because they’ve improved the technology for taking the salt out of the water. … We can create more water through desalination and through reclamation at a far cheaper cost than the toilet-to-tap project. It’s economically unviable, in my view,” Bob Kittle, KUSI’s director of news planning and content, said Sept. 10 on Editor’s Roundtable on KPBS.
Analysis: There’s no ignoring that creating water by purifying sewage (what Kittle called toilet-to-tap) isn’t as cheap as importing water from the Colorado River or Sacramento Delta, our two main sources. But it’s not as expensive as Kittle claimed.
Fact Check: The Real Price of Purified Sewage
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