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Meeker The New Frontier
The document advocates for increasing water reuse to help address California's imbalanced water supply and demand. It discusses various types of water reuse like indirect and direct potable reuse. The organization, WateReuse, conducts research to overcome barriers to greater reuse adoption, educates the public on reuse safety, and works with regulators. If water reuse is expanded, it can provide a local and reliable water source while benefiting the environment, agriculture, industry, and public.
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- 1. Embracing Water SupplySustainability - Advocating for Reuse in Our Water Supply Portfolios Melissa Meeker, Executive Director Southern California Water Summit November 8, 2014
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- 5. How it actuallyworks:
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- 8. 8 De factoWater Reuse Consumer Discharge Drinking Water Treatment Conventional Wastewater Treatment
- 9. 9 Indirect PotableReuse Drinking Water Treatment Conventional Wastewater Treatment Advanced Consumer Wastewater Treatment Environment al Buffer
- 10. 10 Direct PotableReuse Concept Drinking Water Treatment Conventional Wastewater Treatment Consumer Advanced Wastewater Treatment
- 11. How do youview water? 11 Significantly Undervalued
- 12. Balancing Water Demandsand Limited Resources 12
- 13. Chronic Imbalance betweenSupply and Demand • Article in the LA Times – UC researchers have determined that California has issued water rights that amount to roughly five times the state's average annual runoff 13 August 2014 January 2011
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- 15. Potential for WaterReuse • About 7% of municipal About 33 bgd Municipal wastewater effluent in Effluent 7.3% the U.S. is reclaimed and beneficially reused • Israel reuses more than 70% • Singapore reuses 30%, up from 15% in recent 92.7% years Available Water Reclaimed Water • Australia, now at 8%, has a national goal of 30% by 2015 15
- 16. Factors Driving WaterReuse Today •Drought •Population growth •Increased municipal, industrial, and agricultural demand •Dependence on single source of supply •TMDLs/Nutrient load caps “Water scarcity” 16 No one strategy can solve the future water needs of the state, so the portfolios include different mixes of strategies, such as conservation, reuse, agricultural transfers, and new water supply
- 17. The time isnow Provides local, climate-independent, sustainable supply for the environment, agriculture, industry AND people • The need has never been greater • Shift in climate • Greater awareness of environmental/downstream concerns • Existing treatment systems are protective • Treatment technologies have been proven • Continued technological advancement • Significant research to ensure reliability 17 Economic Environmental Social
- 18. The WateReuse Story:Who We Are, What We Do 18 Trade Association Research Foundation Leadership Research Education
- 19. 19 What isneeded? Leadership • Funding Advocacy • Policy Development and Implementation Research • Applied • Timely • Robust Education and Outreach •Message development •Tool development •Tiered Campaigns The Right Water for the Right Use In California: Jennifer West, WRCA Managing Director • Sacramento-based • Extensive legislative experience
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- 21. Since 2000… •198projects commissioned •Over $61M in funding leveraged •145 published reports • 50 projects still active So far in 2014… • 13 projects launched •$3M WRRF funding, leveraged by additional $4.2M (and counting) •15 published reports (and 21 Research Foundation 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Projects Started Reports Published
- 22. 22 Research Categories • Potable Reuse • Business Economics/Triple Bottom Line • Industrial Reuse • Public Acceptance & Policy • Desalination
- 23. WateReuse Research Themes:Project count 23 # of Projects by Topic Potable Reuse Water Quality and Human Health Economics/TBL Public Perception Energy/Desal Industrial Treatment Techn/Operations Potable - IPR DPR WQ/Hum an Health - Pathogen s Chemical s Disinfectio n byproduct Techn/Ops - RO Non-membrane based Operator Training
- 24. Research Path toAchieve DPR Initiative Goal To overcome the regulatory, scientific, technical, and attitudinal barriers to DPR by undertaking three main tasks: • Conduct rigorous scientific research • Communicate the research findings through public awareness programs •Work with regulatory authorities to facilitate DPR implementation by local water utilities • >US $6 million raised to date, leveraged (so far) $12M 24
- 25. Regulatory Concerns Howdo we achieve treatment and process reliability through redundancy, robustness, and resilience? Community Concerns Utility Concerns How do we address the economic and technical feasibility of DPR? How do we train operators to run these advanced systems? How do we increase public awareness of the water cycle and illustrate the safety of DPR to lead to acceptance? Barriers to DPR
- 26. Regulatory 14-10 11-10 14-01 14-02 WRF4508 WRA-14-01 14-13 14-16 14-18 11-02 11-05 11-01 12-06 13-02 13-12 13-03 14-03 WRF4536 14-05 14-14 14-15 14-19 Utility Community 14-08 14-12 13-13 12-07 14-17 WRRF DPR research program worth over $12M is underway to address these concerns to illustrate the
- 27. 13-02 Public Perception 27 •Polling •Focus groups •Telephone surveys •Northern and Southern California
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- 33. Funding Sources •State Water Resources Control Board – $800M in 1% Interest Loans through CW SRF • MWD Local Resources Program Incentive • $340/AF over 25 yrs; $475/AF over 15 yrs • Includes on-site retrofits as eligible costs in the LRP • 2014 State Water Bond - $7.545B ; $725M earmarked for water recycling/ advanced treatment technology projects • Competitive bid process; 50%/50% grants and low interest loans
- 34. In Summary •Research •Applied answers to critical questions •Education and Outreach •Tools and action to make water part of the sustainability •Leadership •Do it for the economy, environment, and society’s quality of life. 34
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- 36. The days ofusing water once and disposing of it are behind us. Melissa Meeker, Executive Director mmeeker@watereuse.org Jennifer West, WR CA Managing Director jwest@watereuse.org
Editor's Notes
- #8 Illustration of reuse – fit for purpose
- #19 What are we, WateReuse, doing about it. We are a combination of two organizations – a trade association and a research foundation.
- #22 Research Foundation – nearly 200 projects and over $60M in research…
- #24 This graph shows the key areas which are sized based on the number of projects in that theme.
- #26 Research is focused on the barriers – Regulatory, Utility and Community concerns
- #27 See how the projects fit in that space