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Increasing resilience with wastewater reuse

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Drinking water infrastructure in urban settings is increasingly affected by population growth and disruptions like extreme weather events. The integration of direct wastewater reuse can help to maintain drinking water service when the system is compromised.

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Fig. 1: Performance curves used to quantify resilience under different conditions, based on the change in performance and the recovery time after a disruption.

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The author is a software developer of the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), which was used in Liu et al. for resilience analysis.

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Klise, K.A. Increasing resilience with wastewater reuse. Nat Water 1, 1002–1003 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00170-w

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