Texas Toilets

I chose to write about an article called "The Effluent Society," which can be found at http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/wichita-falls-drought-forces-town-to-drink-toilet-water. This article was particularly interesting to me because Wichita Texas is soon to be in a stage-5 water restriction due to the increasing drought. This proposes problems such as how to continue watering crops, how to use water based utilities and how to attain more drinking water without having it trucked in. The current proposal, since Wichita has no usable water basin near it, is to use purified water from toilets and washing machines, as well as other common household utilities. This seems very pertinent because central Texas is in a drought as well, and with our water supply diminishing it raises the question as to whether this could be a viable option for us as well.