“San Francisco is one of the largest contributors of nutrients,” said Supervisor AaronPeskin. “Therefore (that) gives us an outsized responsibility to be part of the solution.”
The Board of Supervisors this week urged San Francisco’s water manager to rethink how it supplies and disposes of The City’s water after an unprecedented red tide overtook San Francisco Bay last summer, killing untold numbers of fish and aquatic life.
How Bay Area concrete could offer climate change solutions Long a major polluter, the industry could play a big role in carbon capture“San Francisco plays an outsized role, through water management, in the health of San Francisco Bay,” said Jon Rosenfield, science director at San Francisco Baykeeper.
But thus far, solutions like water recycling, which could supply part of San Francisco’s future water supply and clean up the nutrients being dumped into bay waters, are lagging. The SFPUC currently recycles less than 1% of its discharges and provides no treated wastewater for direct or indirect potable reuse, the resolution noted. It also does not have a facility to remove nitrogen from its treated wastewater.
Still, White anticipates that the recent tranche of federal and state investments in climate and infrastructure will help kickstart more projects throughout the region. “People are sharpening their pencils,” she said.
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