Water Reuse is an exciting world that will shape our future as we continue towards a path of sustainability for our children's and future generations.
I started my journey in water reuse back in 2005, working on sea water desalination with one of the pioneers of reverse osmosis technologies for the marine industry (Sea Recovery Corporation). This was an eye opening experience, in learning how much technology had advanced and the potential available for resolving water scarcity problems for our planet.
In 2006 I joined General Electric (GE) in the Water Treatment division: this chapter of my career took me on a 360 degree ride to learn other water treatment technologies, first focusing on ultra-pure water systems needed by pharmaceutical and microelectronic industry, by using reverse osmosis and deionization equipment to reach the highest level of purity of water. The next step took me on a decade long experience inside the refinery world, managing recycled water chemical programs for cooling towers and boilers and waste water. This experience that made me appreciate how crucial Water Reuse is for our communities, and how many million of gallons of water are saved on a daily basis, by recycling water for industrial purposes, and how many more can be saved in the future, as we are just scratching the surface on this journey.
In 2016, I moved upstream in the water ecosystem, working in a Water Reuse facility as Production and Plant Manager at Suez - North America. In this position I learnt to manage and operate fully integrated facilities that produced water for ground water replenishment through Advanced Water Treatment, but also provided the local refineries with boiler feed and nitrified product for refineries and tertiary disinfected water for irrigation and other industrial uses...all coming from recycled water. It is amazing to know that every day we are recycling millions of gallons of waste water already, and it is exciting to be part of the circular revolution as more facilities are being built and we are embracing the highest level of sustainability in water production, as never before. There is so much more to be done in this field...the future looks bright.