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GE Water's Jon Freedman joins The Water Values Podcast to discuss water reuse and other challenges in the water industry. Jon walks us through issues surrounding water reuse and recycling and gives us a peek behind the curtain about several water-related technologies and where he and GE Water see the next frontier of water technology.
In this session, you'll learn about:
- The recently announced partnership among GE Water, MWH Global and Goldman Sachs
- The difference between delivery of water service in the Unites States and in other parts of the world
- Chronic underinvestment in water systems and their impact on infrastructure
- How water rates are rising to help alleviate the chronic underinvestment in water systems
- GE's Ecomagination initiative
- The difference between water reuse and water recycling
- What a membrane bioreactor is
- Why Latin America is not on the forefront of water reuse
- What the policy issues are for water reuse and which parts of the world are leading the way on water reuse policy
- Energy and resource recovery from wastewater streams
Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:
- GE Water's website
- GE's Ecomagination website
- Press release on the GE Water-MWH Global-Goldman Sachs partnership
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) website
- Buried No Longer – the AWWA report on $1 trillion needed investment in drinking water systems
- Wikipedia page on secondary treatment
- TWV 021 Which Path Will Water 4.0 Follow with Prof. David Sedlak, which discusses secondary treatment
- Water Environment Research Foundation PowerPoint on energy recovery from wastewater
- Water Environment Research Foundation webpage for resource recovery from wastewater
- USA Today article on the White Houses' "Moonshot for Water"
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