Entries Tagged Direct Potable Reuse

Online Exclusives News Briefs: Scottsdale Treatment Plant Approved for Direct Potable Reuse

Entry 244174The Advanced Water Treatment Plant in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently became the third facility in the nation permitted to treat recycled water...

September 19, 2019

Online Exclusives News Briefs: Water Treatment Plant Worker Finds Rare Species of Spider

Entry 244188A rare species of spider called Crossopriza lyoni was recently found at Missouri American Water’s central water treatment plant in Chesterfield...

September 11, 2019

Editorial This Arizona Utility Makes Sustainability a Way of Life

The portfolio of sustainable practices at Scottsdale (Arizona) Water is wide and deep. The utility received a 2018 Sustainable Water Utility Management Award...

February 14, 2019

Editorial Reverse Osmosis Is Costly. Here's a Cost-Effective Way to Make Water for Direct Portable Reuse.

As various regions of the country struggle with stressed drinking water supplies, direct potable reuse of wastewater is gaining acceptance. Various hurdles stand...

January 15, 2019

Online Exclusives WRF Releases RFPs/RFQ for Four Potable Reuse Projects

The Water Research Foundation (WRF) announces that Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) are available for four new...

January 07, 2019

Online Exclusives Your Drain Is Arizona’s Newest Water Source

Until the beginning of this year, direct potable reuse in Arizona was unequivocally banned. “There was a flat-out prohibition against using direct potable...

April 30, 2018

Online Exclusives WEF Alliance Promotes Brewing Beer With Reuse Water

The Water Environment Federation has convened the Pure Water Brewing Alliance as an informal group of utilities, brewers, associations and companies interested...

October 19, 2017

Online Exclusives News Briefs: Public Gets Access to Potable Recycled Wastewater

Direct potable reuse of wastewater will be getting more attention soon in California, as a team of water districts is embarking on...

June 28, 2017

Online Exclusives California Prepares for Direct Potable Reuse of Wastewater

California’s multiyear drought was officially declared over on April 7, but the Legislature is on the verge of making the state a...

April 24, 2017

Online Exclusives Direct Potable Reuse is Coming, but What Does It Mean for Operators?

Communities in California and Arizona could be more drought resistant in the near future, as both states are looking at enacting regulations for...

February 02, 2017

Online Exclusives Now That's a Beer! Brewing Contest Drums Up Support for Water Reuse

Dan Shirah saw the looks and sensed the trepidation.Sure, Shirah is an experienced homebrewer, but some folks wondered how his latest creation...

September 26, 2016

Online Exclusives EPA Announces Funding for Water Reuse and Conservation Research

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $3.3 million in funding to five institutions to research human and ecological health impacts associated with water reuse...

March 28, 2016