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With the new facility, which is scheduled to be finished in 2027, the city will for the first time start using purified recycled water as part of the drinking water supply.

City leaders are investing in the facility while also planning a much larger effort to turn sewage into purified drinking water.

Gonzalez said the DWP will soon open a small demonstration facility at the department’s complex near Griffith Park to develop treatment technologies and monitoring methods that ensure protection of public health.

Gold said another key question is how the city’s project at the Hyperion plant in Playa Del Rey will fit with the Metropolitan Water District’s separate plan for another recycling facility in Carson, called Pure Water Southern California.

Through a project called Pure Water Los Angeles, they plan to treat recycled water from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, the city’s largest wastewater treatment facility, and use that water — as much as 230 million gallons a day — to provide about a third of L.A.’s drinking water supply.