S5E6 - Who will become the US's first Water Reuse Champion Ever? - a podcast by Antoine Walter
from 2022-05-11T03:00
with 🎙️Jon Freedman - Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS
💧 SUEZ WTS provides industry-leading water technology and process expertise to solve the toughest water, wastewater, and process challenges
What we covered:
🇺🇸 How the US federal government just put out a National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP)
👑 How among the 55 action items, Jon holds one that's especially interesting
🧠 How there are four levers from a policy standpoint to promote greater water reuse (and what they are)
🦸♂️ How a fifth approach might well trump them all, by incentivizing water reuse
💪 How we might have to 5x water reuse in the coming decade
🤝🏿 How private sector, multilateral organization, development agencies and governments will have to work hand in hand to develop water reuse
💰 How the US infrastructure bill will apply to the water sector, and what the $55 billion there will be allocated to
❇️ How the scattered nature of the water utility scene in the US can prevent rapid actions from being taken
🍏 How decentralized water reuse might be a powerful solution, and how the 50L Home coalition promotes this direction
🍏 How Los Angeles intends to reuse 100% of its wastewater by 2035 and what it deploys to meet that goal
🌱 How piloting reuse solutions goes beyond a pure technological assessment
🍎 How water tariffs and their absence when it comes to river and groundwater are crucial influencers for the adoption of reuse
🦈 Teaching at the university and the Wharton School, Creating an “H2O Shark Tank,” Membrane Bioreactors as a fundamental technological brick, the water usage mix, PFAS treatment, having aspirational goals... and much more!
🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥
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