{
  "id": 14989858,
  "title": "Matching wastewater treatment to local demand could help China tackle water scarcity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/matching-wastewater-treatment-to-local-demand-could-help-china-tackle",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-16T16:20:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-wastewater-treatment-local-demand-china.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Wastewater reclamation is increasingly regarded as an alternative water source to mitigate water scarcity in China. However, expanding wastewater treatment capacity alone may not be enough to ease this scarcity, since wastewater supply, treatment facilities and reuse demand are not always geographically aligned.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}