Fountain Hills Sanitary District deserves all the credit for reusing “every drop” of wastewater it collects from its 15,000 sewer connections. A 100% reuse standard is admirable and praiseworthy, but the Arizona district had little choice in the matter.
The community of Fountain Hills is a greater Phoenix area desert community blessed with hilly topography — mountains and canyons — and picturesque flora. Combined with 12 months of dependable sunshine, the desert setting attracted 20th-century snowbirds and other denizens of the north. They flocked here as modern-day Yavapai, the Native American “people of the sun” who originally occupied the area.
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