As America's water needs and problems become more complex, more complex methods for coping with them must be assessed. A hierarchy of water quality is proposed as one of many possible changes in water supply practice, a hierarchy which would lessen the need to squander expensive, finely treated waters on rough usage.
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Daniel A. Okun (1969) studied this question.
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