What is Heal the Bay advocacy team doing to impact climate change?
While Heal the Bay is not directly involved in the fight against climate change, many of our advocacy efforts are closely related. As climate change begins to impact California’s traditional water supplies, water conservation efforts will need to be enhanced and non-traditional sources will need to be sought out. Heal the Bay strongly advocates for the reuse/recycling of treated wastewater. Instead of wastewater treatment plants discharging high-quality treated water into a stream or an ocean outfall never to be beneficially used again, we promote water reuse for practices such as irrigation and industrial use. We even support indirect potable reuse of recycled water when the water has been highly treated by ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. In turn, using recycled water will conserve the potable water supply and protect precious ecosystems like the Sacramento River Delta-San Francisco Bay. Heal the Bay recently participated in a State Water Resources Control Board-led stakeholder g
