WateReuse California Review - 2023 Conference Edition

Dr. Charlie Liu, KJ’s National PFAS Practice Leader, primary researcher on PFAS separation and destruction technologies, and treatment process designer will moderate a distinguished panel representing practitioners, researchers, decision-makers, and professors from across California to discuss proactive measures to manage PFAS across multiple types of use. The panel will focus on areas of concern for beneficial reuse, including addressing RO concentrate disposal challenges, groundwater augmentation in basins that are on the PFAS threshold, risks of PFAS adsorption to crops that receive recycled water, management of PFAS residuals, and considerations for onsite industrial reuse of water with PFAS concentrations. As PFAS regulations become more stringent, it will be more important than ever to be knowledgeable about how PFAS are regulated and to be proactive in how one water is managed. Join us to hear from the experts on the successes, the challenges, and what may lie ahead.

Discussion around wetter-drier climate conditions 2022 (driest) vs. 2023 (wettest) and how reuse helps ameliorate Climate Change, their agency plans for the future, including system integration and lessons learned from those that have been there and done that. 

Panelists: Adel Hagekhalil General Manager MWD, Anselmo Collins Senior Assistant General Manager Water-LADWP, Shivaji Deshmukh General Manager IEUA, Dave Pedersen General Manager Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Mike Markus General Manager OCWD. 

Alternative project delivery (Design Build (DB), Progressive Design Build (PDB), and Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR)) has jumped onto the stage and is now the preferred method for the delivery of potable reuse projects. This Panel will review how this got started (in LA at Terminal Island), what has changed since that groundbreaking project, its pitfalls, benefits, and differences between alternative delivery methods. 

Photo: 2016 Groundbreaking at the City of Los Angeles’ Terminal Island AWPF with Former Mayor Garcetti

Join our 25 exhibitors who will be showcasing their products, and services throughout the conference in the Hyatt Regency, Desert Vista A. Be sure to meet them all at the Welcome Reception on November 5 at 5:30 pm and then join us for Breakfast with the Exhibitors on November 7 at 8:00 am, where exhibitors will have breakfast options at their tables.

WateReuse California has four standing committees:

Agricultural Reuse Committee, Communications Collaborative Group Committee, Legislative and Regulatory Committee, and Potable Reuse Permitting and Compliance Committee.

These committees are designed to allow member organizations a direct way to engage in their most related reuse field. Any individual belonging to a WRCA member is eligible to join. If you are interested in joining any of these committees, please complete the interest form: