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How can cities across the American West reuse and recycle water to combat drought?

Even when water is scarce, “people still flush their toilets,” former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Dan Beard said.

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Catarina Negrin shows an irrigation system using gray water running through the back yard of her home in Berkeley, Calif. As cities cut back on irrigation and other urban water uses, lawmakers are trying to make gray water systems more common. Gray water is recycled waste water from kitchen appliances, bath tubs, showers and sinks. It flows through discharge pipes into irrigation systems that can keep plants and lawns lush and green, even in a drought. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
In this photo taken Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Catarina Negrin shows an irrigation system using gray water running through the back yard of her home in Berkeley, Calif. As cities cut back on irrigation and other urban water uses, lawmakers are trying to make gray water systems more common. Gray water is recycled waste water from kitchen appliances, bath tubs, showers and sinks. It flows through discharge pipes into irrigation systems that can keep plants and lawns lush and green, even in a drought. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Even when water is scarce, “people still flush their toilets,” former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Dan Beard said.
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