Recycled water and social injustice upheld
Escondido’s city council approved a conditional use permit on Jan. 11 to build a recycled-water treatment plant on a vacant lot at 1201 E. Washington Avenue near the Springs retirement home. The facility will further treat water from the city’s Hale Avenue Resource Recovery facility to a level suited for agriculture, mainly avocados. In a later phase, the city will expand it to focus on potable reuse water….