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(Cont.) In order to directly address the region's multiple needs (infrastructural, economic, civic, and environmental), normative development provides a scaffolding for waste-water treatment wetlands that double as urban wildlife sanctuaries. This combined program capitalizes on a highly valued, increasingly scarce cash crop produced as a by-product when treating waste water. This new cash crop is water. Clean enough to drink, this water be sold back to the neighbors, forming a new infrastructural network of "locally grown" gray water. This infrastructural network reinstitutes wildness - if not wilderness - in Silicon Valley, combating its homogenous regional development patterns by proposing a new network " of un-settlement. A new homestead, for the new cash crop.