8/31/26 RENO, Nev. (KOLO): By Noah Bond Officials with the City of Reno, City of Sparks, Washoe County and Truckee Meadows Water Authority take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for Nevada’s first Advanced Purified Water Facility on Monday, Aug. 31, … Continued
This is Reno. September 1, 2026 By Kristen Hackbarth A rendering of the Advance Water Purification Facility in north Reno. Provided by TMWA The city of Reno and Truckee Meadows Water Authority on Monday broke ground on the Advanced Purified … Continued
RENO, Nev. (KOLO): 6/13/24: $30 million for a purified water facility is coming to northern Nevada.
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.
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.
KUNR Public Radio, July 5, 2023: The Reno area doesn’t have a history of threatened water supplies, and historic snowfall this past winter eased drought conditions in Nevada and across parts of the Mountain West. But that could shift quickly with climate change.
NASA, June 20, 2023: For space missions that venture beyond low Earth orbit, new challenges include how to provide basic needs for crew members without resupply missions from the ground. NASA is developing life support systems that can regenerate or recycle consumables such as food, air, and water and is testing them on the International Space Station.