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Not the first, just the latest to do this.
Arcata, California began doing this back in the 1970’s.
Here is a link to an EPA report published in the 90’s.
San Diego pumps millions of gallons of treated wastewater into the ocean. Every day.
180 million gallons.
Every day.
It’s not drinkable, but if you treated it through some kind of wetland filtering system like, I dunno, a river, and pump it into a reservoir for holding for later treatment into potability it might make sense.
[http://www.sandiego.gov/mwwd/facilities/ptloma/][Point Loma Treatment Plant]
Try that again: