By Kerry Trueman

Most of us turn on our faucets without giving a thought to where the water’s coming from, but that’s about to change for residents of Orange County. Starting this Friday, the Orange County Water District is launching a new system to recycle wastewater, in collaboration with the county’s sanitation district.

The process is sometimes called “toilet to tap,” and with water shortages increasingly more common across the country, we may have to swallow the fact that we can no longer afford to simply flush all that water away.