To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As much of the Western U.S. navigates a historic drought ...

Municipal wastewater contains many chemicals that present known or potential health risks if ingested. The concentration of these contaminants must be reduced before such water is used to augment a ...

When Eric Seufert brewed a test batch of beer in 2017 with water from recycled sewage, he wasn't too concerned about the outcome. The engineering firm that approached him about the test explained the ...

Epic Cleantec operations director Ryan Pulley holds a beaker of wastewater known as gray water from a San Francisco apartment tower (left). It’s cleaned to drinking water standards (right) and reused ...

WateReuse Arizona named the Potable Water Reuse pilot tested in Tucson as the 2016 Project of the Year award winner. A handful of UA students and faculty contributed to the six-month pilot that was a ...

On Nov. 14, 2022, the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) adopted new regulations to authorize and guide water suppliers in implementing Direct Potable Reuse (DPR). DPR is the process of ...

John Rehring is a vice president and senior client services manager with Carollo Engineers in Broomfield, Colo. For 30 years, he has focused on water supply and reuse planning and implementation ...

Cities in the arid West are not going to get more water any time soon. So they need to squeeze every last drop out of the supply they already have. Water-strapped communities along the Colorado River ...