Decentralized Water Reuse
Texas needs smart water management to meet growing water needs while facing declining supplies. The Net Zero Water design approach is a One Water strategy that invites the urban environment to contribute to water accessibility by leveraging water reuse at the building footprint scale. Buildings of all scale and size can be equipped to capture, store, treat, and reuse a variety of source waters such as air conditioning condensate, rainwater, and even treated wastewater to meet significant portions of their water demands while also providing an economic savings.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn the challenges faced by Texas’ continued growth due to rapid population expansion and strained water supplies.
- Participants will explore how the built environment has the opportunity to participate in the water balance by emphasizing design to capture, store, treat, and reuse waters sourced on site for non-drinking water needs.
- Participants will define what factors to consider when selecting and designing onsite water systems including source water quality, treatment requirements, volumes, costs, permitting, and operations.
- Participants will compare impediments and opportunities for onsite water strategies to gain adoption and further provide water savings benefits to our urban cores and sprawl.
1.0 LU | HSW
Our Speaker:
Chandler Crouch, PE
Net Zero Water Program Lead