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.

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

Updated 11:51 a.m. Wednesday. Officials in Contra Costa County are still working on Wednesday to stop an underground wastewater leak that is believed to have spilled about 20 million gallons of sewage ...