Don’t miss your chance to join us in Oregon, Arizona, Texas, and California. Mark your calendar with these critical dates: 

• 2025 PNCWA/ WateReuse Pacific Northwest Annual Conference – Early Bird Deadline: This Wednesday, July 16
• 2025 WateReuse Arizona Symposium – Online Registration Closes July 20
• 2025 WateReuse Texas Conference – Poster & Award Deadline: Tomorrow, July 15 | Early Bird Deadline: July 31
• 2025 WateReuse California Conference – Advance Registration Closes September 3 

 We look forward to seeing you there! 

WateReuse Association and WateReuse California welcome Palmdale Water District! Established in 1918, Palmdale Water District services more than 126,000 people across the City of Palmdale and adjacent unincorporated areas in Los Angeles County. Established in 1953, the Palmdale Water Reclamation Plant recycles approximately 7 million gallons per day for irrigation. Last year, Palmdale Water District broke ground on its Pure Water Antelope Valley Demonstration Facility, the first phase in its effort to establish an advanced water treatment facility for direct potable reuse by 2029. 

General Manager of the Gulf Coast Authority Elizabeth Fazio Hale shared her perspective in two Texas newspapers last week as part of a thought leadership campaign on scaling up reuse for industrial water users. The Galveston County Daily News and El Paso Matters published her op eds emphasizing the need for increased investment in water reuse across Texas. WateReuse worked with Fazio Hale to place the pieces, which celebrate the passage of a recent Texas water infrastructure funding bill, SB 7, and call for additional investment in reuse to accommodate increasing industrial demands from high tech industries while protecting local water supply. “It’s my hope that the U.S. Congress and the administration look at the full range of options to help American companies employ next-generation water reuse solutions,” she said. Fazio Hale also celebrated WateReuse Texas’s history of advocacy in the state, highlighting its upcoming 20th anniversary conference taking place in Houston from September 16-18.  

Last week, Katie Peach, Domain Leader for Municipal and Industrial Reuse at WateReuse member Veolia, published a piece in Water Online showcasing Santa Monica as an exemplary case study in water management through its Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP), which encompasses three reuse facilities across the city. Peach outlines how the City of Santa Monica, also a WateReuse member, collaborated with Veolia on an underground advanced water treatment facility, establishing an innovative system which utilizes membrane bioreactor technology, cartridge filtration, reverse osmosis (RO), ultraviolet disinfection, and free chlorine disinfection to deliver high quality potable water for the city. Santa Monica’s reuse facilities under the SWIP also include an urban runoff recycling facility, which is California’s first stormwater direct injection project, and a 1.5 million gallon stormwater harvesting tank at the city’s Civic Center. 

Last week, Smart Water Magazine featured Bluefield Research’s report on U.S. Water for Data Centers, highlighting surging water related expenditures for data centers and the increasing need for water infrastructure to accommodate high tech industries. Bluefield projects that annual water related capital and operational expenditures will reach $797.1 million by 2030, a 31.4% increase from today. The report also highlights that data centers are forecasted to withdraw 150.4 billion gallons, or the equivalent of 4.6 million US households, between 2025 and 2030. Bluefield proposes reuse as a key solution and highlights WateReuse member Loudoun Water’s reclaimed water program as an example of how tech companies can collaborate with municipalities to address data center water demand. “These win-win collaborations offer scalable paths to align community water needs with corporate growth strategies,” said Amber Walsh, a senior analyst at Bluefield Research. 

Since the 1940s when Baltimore began diverting millions of gallons of recycled water to the Bethlehem Steel plant to be reused for steel production, water reuse has helped the Mid-Atlantic region’s communities meet their freshwater needs. Check out the Mid-Atlantic Profile in Reuse highlighting water reuse in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. The profile is part of a series of fact sheets summarizing regions and their unique water reuse histories, drivers, and case studies.

July 17, 2025
10:00 am ET | 7:00 am PT (1 hour)
Free to WateReuse Members

Join Doctors Jay Garland and Michael Jahne to learn about key research coming out of U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development. Garland and Jahne will provide an overview of their research addressing three key areas for developing water reuse systems: 1) defining treatment targets for contaminant removal, 2) specifying and assessing system performance, and 3) evaluating life cycle costs and impacts of different reuse scenarios. The presentation will discuss their involvement in developing a risk based, fit-for-purpose strategy in collaboration with the National Blue-Ribbon Commission for Onsite Water Systems and include work on decentralized systems for reuse of domestic wastewater, roof-collected rainwater, stormwater, air conditioning condensate, and industrial wastes streams from food processing and oil & gas extraction.

Presented by WateReuse Ohio.

July 20-22, 2025
Flagstaff, AZ - High Country Conference Center

Water professionals from across the state of Arizona, including state departments, utilities, consultants, contractors, regulators, equipment manufacturers and laboratory services, and guests from neighboring states, will convene to hear presentations and engage in conversations regarding water reuse in Arizona.

September 16-18, 2025 | Houston, TX

Come together to learn about water reuse in Texas including major advances in direct potable reuse, produced water, and much more.

September 14-17, 2025 | Portland, OR

The Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition (PNCWA2025) will feature a full-day track hosted by WateReuse Pacific Northwest on September 16, 2025. This year’s conference theme is Flowing Together: Stories of Dedication and Innovation.

September 21-23, 2025 | San Diego, CA

Save the date for the premier water recycling conference in California. Hear from a wide range of expert speakers and tour local San Diego-area water reuse projects.