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The limited availability of surface water, combined with pollution of the Daling River which flows through the city, has led to the overexploitation of groundwater resources. Groundwater serves as a vital water supply source for the city (around 85 percent of total water use). Under new regulations enacted by Lingyuan City government, the establishment of any new business projected to consume large volumes of water must be justified. Water scarcity has thus become a major constraint on the city’s economic development.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The municipality of Lingyuan started a project to increase wastewater collection and treatment and foster wastewater reuse. Reclaiming wastewater may be a useful alternative to conventional water resources, especially where there is water scarcity. 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That is more than the amount of timber harvested from national forests each year.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In addition to this, about 70% of Baltimore offenders find themselves back in jail within three years of being released. Few cities have been hit as hard as Baltimore by violent crime and the scourge of abandoned housing — big-city blight that becomes hubs for illicit drug use and prostitution and is frequently used by assailants to dump homicide victims.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Some of the nation’s cities with the highest homicide rates also have enormous stocks of abandoned buildings. 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With more than 2.7 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area (as of 2015) and intensive industrial and economic development, the region gets less than 400 mm of rainfall a year. The state government has been a pioneer in understanding wastewater as a resource to utilize rather than a waste only to dispose. Since the 1990s, the city’s development has been tied to water conservation efforts and wastewater reuse. Given the area’s fast growth, the aquifer was being depleted, with extractions doubling its natural recharge.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In San Luis Potosí, the right mix of local conditions and political support combined with a creative project funding and design that incentivized wastewater reuse, which made wastewater treatment economically and environmentally sustainable. 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