On Wednesday, bookending the Symposium’s program, The Water Research Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Peter Grevatt will deliver a plenary talk on Water Reuse in the One Water Research Portfolio.

Sponsored by Carollo Engineers

The Water Reuse 101 boot camp is one of the Symposium’s most popular sessions. A cast of seasoned experts team up to introduce newer professionals to the world of water reuse. Topics include assessing needs, financing projects, navigating regulations, building public support, and learning about best management practices. This year, we are offering two sessions on Sunday and Tuesday afternoons. Ellen MacDonald (Principal, Plummer Associates, Inc.) and Eva Steinle-Darling (Water Reuse Technical Practice Director, Carollo Engineers) will moderate the sessions, which will include presenters from Bureau of Reclamation, El Paso Water, San Antonio Water System, among others.

Registration deadlines for the WateReuse Symposium are coming up. Don’t miss your chance to participate! Deadlines:

• February 18: Discount rates at the Marriott Rivercenter 
• February 25: Advanced event registration ends

Is Your Water Reuse Project Ready for Federal Funding? 

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will send billions of dollars to your communities for investments in water recycling projects. Please take this brief five-question survey to help WateReuse Association understand if your agency plans to apply for federal funding or financing for a water reuse project in the upcoming two years. Your feedback will help us ensure that every possible dollar of federal funding for water reuse is put to good use.

Last week, the Administration released a guidebook to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Rather than providing official guidance from any one federal agency, the guidebook serves as a roadmap to all the funding available under the law, including funding for water recycling projects. Details on program funding amounts, application periods, funding mechanisms, eligible uses, and next milestones begin on page 230. The guide includes a sortable data file of resources. Programs relevant to WateReuse members include:

• p. 234: Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
  
• p. 235: Clean Water State Revolving Fund
  
• p. 241: Water & Groundwater Storage and Conveyance
• p. 244: Water Recycling
• p. 246: WaterSMART Grants
• p. 247: Desalination Projects

For additional program details, WateReuse encourages our members to review the Water Recycling Practitioner’s Guide to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Innovatreat joins the WateReuse Association as a leader in solving small flow treatment challenges with innovative modular solutions that optimize the use of energy and chemicals and minimize waste.

WateReuse Association members brought the message of reuse to NACWA’s Winter Conference last week. Greta Zornes, Water Reuse Practice Leader at CDM Smith and WateReuse’s Onsite and Distributed Water Recycling Systems Committee Vice-Chair moderated the conversation, titled Extreme Drought, Heightened Water Demands and Water Reuse’s Moment. The panel featured Adel Hagekhalil, Chief Executive Officer & General Manager of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Todd Swingle, Executive Director of Toho Water Authority, and Kathryn Sorensen, Director of Research at Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy.

Tampa’s city council approved initial funding to explore water reuse programs. The city aims to study the impact of diverting 50 million gallons a day of highly treated wastewater to improve the city’s drought resilience. Although the city will move forward with the study, council members indicated the need for continued community engagement and discussions to build support for a water reuse program. Read more.

The Village of Greenport in Suffolk County, New York completed a feasibility study evaluating water reuse opportunities. The findings, aimed at minimizing nitrogen discharges into the Long Island Sound, recommend reusing city wastewater in a series of recharge basins to bolster the local aquifer. Greenport is now exploring potential grants to fund the recharge program. Read more.

NGL Energy Partners LP announce a commitment to advance full cycle produce water management across their operations in the Delaware Basin. NGL is partnering with XRI Holdings, LLC, the largest produced water recycling company in the Permian Basin to develop a produce water reuse system.  Read more.

Are you interested in recognizing recycled water customers as community water stewards or offering an incentive for new customers to come onboard? Participate in the Recycled Water User Network, a members-only network for businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations that use recycled water, including customers of water utilities and organizations that recycle water onsite. The network gives businesses, governments and nonprofits that use recycled water the opportunity to receive a green designation, WATER STAR®, and access to information and resources on recycled water. Learn more.

February 24, 2022
11 am PT | 2:00 pm ET | (1 hour)

Hear experts in California discuss two alternative approaches that have great potential to replace ozone-BAC in some Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) projects without any substantial impacts on project cost, footprint, or operational complexity.

Draft California DPR regulations require a high degree of protection for unknown chemicals, chemical peaks, and pathogenic organisms where at least four separate treatment processes and three diverse treatment mechanisms are needed. These include ozone and biologically activated carbon (BAC) prior to full advanced treatment for chemical control. While efficacy of ozone-BAC has been well proven, it can also increase operational complexity, footprint, and project costs. The draft regulations allow for alternatives if an agency demonstrates that the proposed train removes contaminants of concern to an equivalent or better level.

April 6, 2022
11 am PT | 2:00 pm ET | (1 hour)

For the past three years, Virginia Tech has led a collaborative academic research planning effort exploring the concept of Smart One Water Management. Join this webcast to learn how research can improve the reliability of our water resources and advance the implementation of water reuse. The research plan covers governance and implementation, innovation ecosystems, workforce development, diversity and stakeholders, and water reuse.

Smart One Water requires understanding how people interact with smart water services, as well as advancing national-scale cyberinfrastructure for adaptive management of water systems, driven by societal needs for resilience, sustainability, and social justice. Despite an increased urgency to modernize and integrate water system management practices, for most communities, management remains ad hoc and siloed with only incremental and reactive changes over the last few decades. Join us to learn about a major national initiative to converge disciplines around the most pressing challenges in our water systems.

Accounting and Administrative Assistant
WateReuse Association
Washington, DC
Join us! We’re seeking a full-time team member to support critical business and accounting functions.
Closes February 18
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Engineer – Associate or Assistant I/II
Soquel Creek Water District
Santa Cruz County, CA
Closes February 21
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Plant Operator I/II/III/IV
City of Ventura, CA
Closes February 24
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