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.
Press Release, July 12, 2023: Since it got its start with the City of Santa Rosa’s Geysers Recharge Project in 1998, the Windsor-based firm has coordinated public outreach for more than $2 billion worth of recycled water projects, from purple pipe to potable reuse. During the past 25 years, the firm has worked on a variety of recycled water projects in California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada, including purple pipe projects for agricultural and landscape irrigation, potable reuse and advanced purified recycled water.
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.