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Water is arguably the most vital resource we have, and California sure knows it.
水可以说是我们所拥有的最重要的资源，加利福尼亚州当然清楚这一点。
On Tuesday, the State Water Board approving a new rule allowing water agencies to take wastewater, treat it and then put it directly into the drinking water system.
周二，加州水务委员会批准了一项新规定，允许水务机构回收废水，对其进行处理，然后直接将其输送入饮用水系统。
"So, the regulators are comfortable with the level of treatment and the safety levels of that water to be directly connected to our distribution systems."
“监管机构对直接连接我们供水系统的水的处理水平和安全水平感到满意。”
Before this direct wastewater transition rule, there are some communities in California, like the City of Oceanside, that have been using a process called "indirect potable reuse" for some of its water supply as it turns out.
在这一废水直接转换规定出台之前，加州有一些社区，比如奥申赛德市，一直在使用一种叫做“间接饮用回用”的方法来处理一些供水问题。
"We're able to take treated wastewater and then treat it further.
“我们能够将处理过的废水进行进一步处理。
We put it in an environmental buffer like the ground or reservoir, and then we can retreat it for a final time and then distribute it to the public."
我们将其置于地面或水库等环境缓冲带中，然后可以把它最后一次处理，随后将之输送给公众。”
Direct potable reuse wouldn't have that environmental buffer in its process.
直接饮用回用在其过程中不会有环境缓冲带。
The Chief of Operations at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California says the treated wastewater has a number of treatment steps like ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis.
南加州大都会水区的运营主管称，要处理的废水会经历很多处理步骤，比如紫外线和反渗透。
"And then ultimately for direct potable reuse, it'll go into a drinking water treatment plants.
“最终，为了直接饮用，废水将进入饮用水处理厂。
So, the same drinking water treatment plants that have been operated for decades and the number of treatment processes there, it'll be treated through that process."
饮用水处理厂已经运行了几十年，有很多处理步骤，废水将通过这些步骤进行处理。”
However, when asked about the process:
然而，当被问及这个过程时：
"What if I told you that this was once wastewater, would you still drink it?"
“如果我告诉你这曾经是废水，你还会喝吗？”
"I might... I might still drink it. I feel like water always kind of cycles through eventually, right?"
“我可能...我可能还是会喝。我觉得水最终总是会循环的，对吧？”
"I'd prefer not to drink wastewater."
“我还是不愿意喝废水。”
