”Tapping Toilet Water“ was the Hearst-like headline in the Daily News. It was both an attention grabber and a blatant falsehood in terms of what the story was about, which was something called the East Valley Water Recycling Project. This is our Department of Water and Power‘s planned dumping of some tertiary-treated sewage water into 500 feet of soil for eventual well-water consumption five years from now. The dismal, three-word headline on April 16 topped an otherwise lucid and accurate article. That is, except when it came to the key point of whether the Department of Water and Power had given fair ”warning“ on this issue. After all, the water in question wouldn’t be coming out of local taps until 2005 at the earliest.
Source: Daily Drips | L.A. Weekly