Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO & Co-founder of Epic Cleantec, provides an outstanding overview of water reuse systems, their benefits and how centralized and decentralized components of a water system support and strengthen each other.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Epic Cleantech’s origin story in the onsite water reuse space
- The policy background driving onsite reuse
- How onsite reuse supplements centralized treatment systems
- Why and how San Francisco implemented its requirement for onsite reuse systems
- How onsite water reuse regulation is spreading across the United States
- How onsite reuse diversifies supply and enhances resiliency of water supply
- How onsite reuse helps recapture waste heat from wastewater
- How the waste heat provides significant energy savings
- Overcoming the “Yuck!” factor
- Individual home vs. district water reuse systems
- Where the U.S. is on the spectrum of water reuse around the globe
- Aaron’s thoughts on what the U.S. can do better in the policy arena to promote better water stewardship
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