Water Reclamation Research

During the spring of 2000, Heal the Ocean retained graduate students from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB to conduct a research project on the use of reclaimed water in Santa Barbara County. The purpose of the research was to study the feasibility of upgrading all secondary treatment of wastewater to tertiary treatment while expanding the uses of reclaimed water within the County (file is 33 megabytes). Download PDF