{"id":17685,"date":"2016-10-23T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17685"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:24:06","slug":"if-you-have-do-it-just-dont-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17685","title":{"rendered":"If you have to &#8230; do it, just don&#8217;t tell me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_117251716-1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17686\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_117251716-1024x682-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_117251716-1024x682\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_117251716-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_117251716-1024x682-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shutterstock_117251716-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WICHITA FALLS, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; Drinking potty water isn&#8217;t exactly to my liking.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing in this Wichita County community. They&#8217;re processing waste water and turning it into potable water &#8230; the stuff you can swill with allegedly no discernible after taste.<\/p>\n<p>The officials in Wichita Falls swear by what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, it is reducing by a considerable amount the volume of fresh water the city&#8217;s 100,000 or so residents are consuming.<\/p>\n<p>The city had to do it back when so much of Texas was enduring the punishing drought. They developed technology to turn &#8212; pardon the intentional pun &#8212; crappy water into fresh drinking water. It&#8217;s my understanding that the locals aren&#8217;t complaining about it.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Wichita Falls has a limited supply of drinking water &#8212; with it all coming from surface-water reservoirs &#8212; the city felt it had no choice but to find a way to convert the waste water into the drinkable liquid.<\/p>\n<p>When I first got wind of this initiative, I approached then-Amarillo City Manager Jarret Atkinson &#8212; a well-known expert on water development and conservation &#8212; and said the following:<\/p>\n<p>If you have to develop this kind of technology for Amarillo, fine! Go for it! Just don&#8217;t tell me.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA FALLS, Texas &#8212; Drinking potty water isn&#8217;t exactly to my liking. But that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing in this Wichita County community. They&#8217;re processing waste water and turning it into potable water &#8230; the stuff you can swill with allegedly no discernible after taste. The officials in Wichita Falls swear by what they&#8217;re doing. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17685\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you have to &#8230; do it, just don&#8217;t tell me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,18],"tags":[2418,4609,6648,5259],"class_list":["post-17685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-jarrett-atkinson","tag-texas-drought","tag-waste-water","tag-wichita-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17688,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}