Wastewater will always be in abundance to some degree and new treatment methods have made the water safer each year. "If nobody uses that water it goes into the Sacramento River," Crooks says.

The plant processes around 135 million gallons of wastewater every day from Sacramento County and West Sacramento. It is expecting to deliver about 50,000 acre-feet per year to farmers once the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Water managers are celebrating the completion of a major project to upgrade the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Elk Grove.