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Loo Poo - Phoenix Water Newest Mascot
Loo Poo represents wastewater that comes from toilets, drains, sinks, and showers in your home.
July 10, 2020
Wayne Drop, Phoenix Water’s popular water conservation mascot, educates kids and adults all across greater Phoenix. After many visits to schools, events and libraries, it was time for Wayne to have a sidekick to talk about the stinky side of things.
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Loo Poo is the go-to guy when it comes to wastewater and sustainability, including what we do with your poo, what shouldn’t go in your toilet, and the beautiful Tres Rios Wetlands. Loo Poo has been busy training with Wayne Drop the last few months, but he finally made his big debut in April.
Loo Poo represents wastewater that comes from toilets, drains, sinks, and showers in your home. Starting at your home, wastewater travels through 5,000 miles of pipes and pumps underground until it arrives at a wastewater treatment plant. Phoenix Water treats 63 billion gallons of wastewater annually.
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Once treated, the wastewater becomes reclaimed water. Most of the reclaimed water that comes out of the wastewater treatment process is recycled. It can be reused for non-potable applications such as energy production, non-edible crops, turf irrigation, groundwater recharge, and wetland restoration.
Reclaimed water is pumped from the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant over to the Tres Rios Wetlands, rehabilitating nearly 700 acres in and around the Salt River. The plants and animals take what they need before it is discharged back into the river. This restoration project creates a mutual relationship between the renewed wetlands and the nearby wastewater treatment plant.
The lush and scenic Tres Rios Wetlands is now home to more than 150 different species of birds and animals such as muskrats, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, bobcats, and beavers. The beautiful cottonwood groves, willows, mesquites, and other desert shrubs around the reed-lined ponds and along the trails attract many migratory and wintering songbirds. This project is repairing a natural habitat by bringing the Salt River back to the condition it was in during the early 1800s.
You can learn more about the wastewater treatment process, or download Loo Poo’s activity book, by visiting phoenix.gov/watercloud.
This press release was produced by the City of Phoenix. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
