They will eventually, when they are done they will start again, because pipes will always leak. its only a max 7% increase, which is not enough

Yes the plants will need to be retrofitted with more advanced processes.

Well Vegas is already world class in water reuse. Basically only Israel beats them. we will certainly go to water reuse before we repair/replace LA’s entire pipe system. That is crazy difficult and expensive and an ordinary problem for most networks (though probably worse in la due to the seismic activity) Meanwhile there are already wastewater plants producing drinking quality effluent. It’s clear cut the cheaper solution short term

Which may not be an option, as southwestern cities such as Phoenix and LA are likely to fail within the century without it.

As someone who’s been in on this research. It is the main, non-policy related, impediment to DPR. They don’t degrade so they will get increasingly less dilute in a closed system.

hormones such as estrogen will likely be an issue for every application