AURORA, Colo. — As Aurora city leaders consider reducing water usage, a closer look inside the city’s purification system shows how reused water from river basins is transformed into drinking water through a multi-step process designed to remove contaminants for more than 400,000 customers.
At the center of that process is Ann Malinaro, a process specialist with Aurora Water, who helps oversee how water travels from river basins through treatment and back into taps.
“So the water that we see coming down these pretty steps, that is water that was taken from the mountains,” Malinaro explained. “Half of it starts in the South Platte River Basin, a quarter comes from Colorado River Basin and a quarter comes from the Arkansas River Basin.”…