"Water is the driving force of all nature"
Leonardo da Vinci
DECENTRALIZED WATER RECYCLING IN RESPONSE TO A DRIER FUTURE
Water is too precious a resource to use just once. The depletion of water reserves is widespread and worsening nationwide. Climate models, moreover, indicate that droughts will occur more frequently and will be longer and more severe in the next decades. California and other dry regions in the U.S. are to become even drier.
In addition, restoring the existing aging water and sewer infrastructure and expanding it to serve the growing population will cost billions of dollars over the next decade, if we are to maintain current levels of water service. Consumers will have little choice but to face skyrocketing water bills to cover the funding shortage for these investment needs.
Water is an essential asset for the economic prosperity of our society and our goal is to provide cost-effective solutions to ensure a sustainable social development and high quality of life. Recycled water offers a drought-resistant and sustainable water source for uses such as landscape irrigation, cooling, and toilet flushing.
San Francisco's approach to water conservation has become a model for the use of decentralized water recycling. The City’s Recycled Water Ordinance requires property owners to install onsite water recycling systems in new construction, modification, or remodel projects. The State of California has also laid out plans to increase the use of decentralized recycled water by at least two million acre-feet per year by 2030.
