Water is Too Valuable a Resource to be used only once - Potable Water Seminar
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Creating Value Through Onsite Non-Potable Water Systems
5th, October, 2022
1:00–2:00 p.m. PT
Greetings, NAWI Alliance community! You are invited to the next NAWI webinar featuring Manfred Zapka, Ph.D., PE and Phyllis Horner, Ph.D., WELL AP, Patrick McCleary of JMCS Services, and John and Paul King of Kapa'a Light Industrial Park, on Creating Value Through Onsite Non-Potable Water Systems (ONWS). They will provide details on the significant capabilities ONWS have in reducing potable water demand and helping to conserve valuable water resources, and how they are of financial value for organizations.
Registration is required and spots are limited.
We hope you will join us for this informative event!
About the Speaker
Manfred Zapka, Ph.D., PE, principal of Sustainable Design and Consulting LLC, has dedicated his professional career to help create healthy and sustainable built environments, for buildings and infrastructure. He is a certified green and healthy building professional with LEED AP and WELL AP credentials and is a Council-certified Indoor Environmental Consultant (CIEC). He is an adjunct professor for architecture, a researcher for building systems, and an engineering consultant. He believes that water is too valuable to be used only once. He has been promoting the use of ONWS through pilot projects, process optimization, and advocacy.
Phyllis Horner, Ph.D., WELL AP, is an organizational psychologist and expert in creating measurable bottom-line value by creating spaces that are healthy, safe and sustainable, both physically and psychologically. She is the CEO and founder of Great Places and Spaces (GPS) a company dedicated to changing the way how valuable places are created, based on health, wellness and sustainability. GPS has developed ROI models for healthy and productive workplaces which assists organizations to select and assess the performance of investments for optimized workplaces. Similarly GPS has developed a roadmap of how ONWS can be developed, based on ROI, technology advances, and engagement of the stakeholder.
Patrick McCleary, President, JMCS Services, has been in Real Estate development for 30+ years, and he has experienced numerous challenges with municipal sewage treatment. He is a technology developer and has been implementing onsite wastewater treatment systems to realize development projects in rural areas where there are no sewers available, as well in high end developments with waterfront land where traditional septic system are not working well. Patrick will share some examples of how onsite wastewater treatment has created attractive financial performance for private developers and municipalities. Using onsite treatment opens up new sources of water for non-potable uses, avoids investment in larger centrally positioned wastewater collection and treatment facilities, and enables expedited development of much needed housing and commercial developments which cannot connect to sewers right away.
John and Paul King, Kapa’a Light Industrial Park, are developers and operators of one of the largest light industrial warehouse parks in Hawaii. Their development is on a former landfill and close to an environmentally sensitive wetland. Their success in getting public and agency acceptance is supported by their commitment to use environmentally friendly site development technologies, including advanced onsite wastewater treatment. They are using MBR technologies that create high quality effluent that can be reused onsite, and/or safely infiltrated to protect adjacent aquatic resources. Today, John and Paul will share their motivation to use advanced wastewater treatment and go beyond local wastewater code requirements, and their experiences with process implementation and regulatory agencies.
About the Topic
It is universally accepted that Onsite Non-potable Water Systems (ONWS) are capable of significantly reducing potable water demand and therefore help to conserve valuable water resources. The public sector, including utilities and regulatory agencies, have historically been the main players promoting ONWS.
Reducing the need to use potable water for many applications is of the utmost importance as many nations look for solutions to drought conditions. Recent options to stimulate broader adoption of ONWS include initiatives by private developers and building owners and managers to use ONWS in their projects. Using ONWS is not only beneficial to the environment, it also adds value to organizations which face water-related barriers to develop and operate built environmental assets.
ONWS can create attractive financial results when used in a smart way, and ONWS can create attractive ROI scenarios for communities, private developers, and building owners/managers, creating investment opportunities.
This presentation will highlight and quantify the financial value proposition of ONWS. Aspects of mitigating risks to public interests will be addressed for regulatory agencies to facilitate private ONWS applications. Since implementation of ONWS technology includes change management and a shifting perspective of the public as well as other stakeholders, the human behavioral aspect of introducing these systems will also be discussed. Case studies and testimonials will illustrate the pertinent benefits.
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