Guidelines for Water Reuse U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

and Development Agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency. It has been subjected to the Agency’s peer and administrative review and has been approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. ii Foreword In an effort to help meet growing demands being placed on available water supplies, many communities through-out the U.S. and the world are turning to water reclama-tion and reuse. Water reclamation and reuse offer an effective means of conserving our limited high-quality freshwater supplies while helping to meet the ever grow-ing demands for water. For many years, effluent discharges have been accepted as an important source for maintaining minimum strea