Press Release, September 20, 2024: Data Instincts founder and principal Mark Millan was awarded the prestigious “Bahman Sheikh Award for Vision in Water Reuse” at the 2024 WateReuse California Conference in Garden Grove, CA on September 16, 2024.
RENO, Nev. (KOLO): 6/13/24: $30 million for a purified water facility is coming to northern Nevada.
Press Release, December 19, 2023: Following years of research, collaboration, and public engagement, California’s State Water Resources Control Board is voting today to adopt new regulations allowing for direct potable reuse.
Press Release, October 4, 2023: Data Instincts founder and principal Mark Millan has been selected to present at the International Desalination Association (IDA) “Summit on Water and Climate Change” in Seville, Spain on October 15-17, 2023.
Resilience: 10/1/23: Population growth and climate change are stretching America’s water supplies to the limit, and tapping new sources is becoming more difficult each year—in some cases, even impossible.
BBC StoryWorks: 9/28/23: In Santa Cruz County, a community gives water a second life, ensuring everyone has access to a fresh supply. A brief (5 minute) video produced by BBC StoryWorks for the PureWater Soquel project
LA Progressive: 8/27/23: Treating wastewater is a powerful solution, finally gaining more public support.
VEZA: 8/23/23: There are already several indirect potable reuse – or IPR – facilities reclaiming water in the US and around the world. IPR uses an almost identical treatment process to DPR but for the addition of an environmental buffer, such as a lake, reservoir or groundwater aquifer, where the water sits after a first round of treatment and is diluted with a raw water supply.
KQED, 8/22/23: When recycled for drinking, the millions of gallons of water that Bay Area residents flush down toilets and showers every day could be cleaner than the pristine Hetch Hetchy
Cal Matters, 8/1/23: Waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing before it’s piped directly to taps, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply. The state’s new draft rules are more than a decade in the making.