This site is dedicated to the utility professionals at the Lake Worth municipal water treatment plant and all that work in South Florida. It is also dedicated to the City Council that authorized the possibility of a new Reverse Osmosis or RO water treatment facility needed for our water.

Lake Worth Utilities is moving in the right direction and the citizens need to be informed to make the right choices for the future. We need to conserve our water and preserve our way of life.

Wars have been fought over water and it is too important to give up local control of one's water rights.

Keeping our water local seems logical to me.

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Why does Lake Worth, Florida and South Florida need to build these new high technology RO systems?

Florida used to have lots of fresh surface water. We drained the swamps with a series of canals. We pulled the water out of the ground for our growing population. We also paved the ground for our streets and sidewalks and homes. This prevented the water from going back into the ground and recharging the surficial water table.

Now South Florida is faced with a dropping water table. As the water table drops, the salt water in the oceans moves in to take up the area vacated by the fresh water. This is called salt water intrusion. When the old fresh water wells become contaminated with salt water, they become unusable for drinking water.

Salt water intrusion has ruined many wells along the east coast of South Florida. We are running out of fresh water in our area, that is a plain and simple fact. Besides that problem, we have another major factor involved, sinkholes.

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So why is South Florida in the need for the new Reverse Osmosis membrane treatment plants for our water?

Is this a waste of taxpayers money or is it a necessity?

I shall give you some answers below.

First let me answer what is RO or Reverse Osmosis?

To understand "reverse osmosis," it is probably best to start with normal osmosis. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, osmosis is the "movement of a solvent (water) through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane." That's a mouthful.

A semipermeable membrane is a membrane that will pass some atoms  or molecules, like water, but not others. Saran wrap is a membrane, but it is impermeable to almost everything we commonly throw at it. The best common example of a semipermeable membrane would be the lining of your intestines, or a cell wall. In other words some things can go through the membrane, but not all things can.

In Reverse Osmosis the membrane allows passage of water molecules but not salt molecules. So we can take salty water and under pressure push the water out away from the salt and use it to drink and irrigate our lawns.

Should we use shallow or deep aquifers?

Sinkholes are a problem that maybe caused by pulling too much water out of the ground. It is somewhat debatable that this is true. Since the water management districts have limited the amount of water drawn from the surficial ground aquifers, sinkholes have not been as big a problem as they were in the past. Surficial water costs less to get than the deep wells, but we are not always having the luxury to choose what is cheapest. You see the days of cheap water are over and now it is time to pay for the best available technology.

We are governed, in Palm Beach county, by the South Florida Water Management District. Overall I think they have done a good job.

The local municipalities are having to go to the deep Florida aquifers to get the water needed for the RO plants to prevent having problems with sinkholes. This is a necessity for the problems faced to be resolved.

We, as a water industry, are governed by various agencies and are told by what standards to meet for treatment and these standards dictate the types of treatments that are needed and used.

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Osmosis, by the way, is why drinking salty water (like ocean water) will kill you. When you put salty water in your stomach, osmotic pressure begins drawing water out of your body to try to dilute the salt in your stomach. Eventually, you dehydrate and die.

In reverse osmosis, the idea is to use the membrane to act like an extremely fine filter to create drinkable water from salty (or otherwise contaminated) water. The salty water is put on one side of the membrane and pressure is applied to stop, and then reverse, the osmotic process. It generally takes a lot of pressure and is fairly slow, but it works.

Using Reverse Osmosis we can go into a deep aquifer and pull out brackish

(salty water) and seperate the water from the salt for use as drinking water.

I like having local control of the water system and not having the million residents of Palm Beach county in charge of our local water supply. Our water is just too important to give away local control.

You see Lake Worth and all of South Florida has no other option but to build these RO plants.

By the way:

This site was built by Robert H. Walker

I am Licensed to treat drinking water by the state of Florida

Department of Environmental Protection.

I have over 4,000 hours of experience in treating drinking water, in the above RO and convention lime treatment plants.

I also have over 500 hours of training in water treatment and reverse osmosis systems.

I am not an expert, but I am familiar with the issues involved.

I assure you that the City of Lake Worth utilities is moving in the right direction by working on building a Reverse Osmosis water treatment plant.

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