Water

EcoCloud exists to provide resources to water professionals, businesses and governments, with information and case studies to allow implementation of water projects and to connect with others in their region to implement their water projects. The EcoCloud team has focused on providing utilities, commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) users, and water professionals, the case studies, metrics, tools, and frameworks to complete projects.

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for a 20% reduction in per capita use of water by 2020 . To meet that need, the EcoCloud™ team seeks to apply the principles of Industrial Ecology to Integrated Urban Water Management & Water Conservation Projects by investigating opportunities for systems thinking, efficiency, waste reduction, and closed-loop processes both at the planning stages and implementation. Some of the key EcoCloud™ focus areas include recycled utility water, decentralized water management, conservation (efficiency), and the energy/water connection. Urban water management and water conservation projects need to take into account the entire water cycle.

Image: ActewAGL Education Website

Ecocloud is seeking cutting edge examples of water projects especially in the Silicon Valley and Bay Area – if you have implemented a project or used an innovative tool, contact us at ecocloudcontent@sustainablesv.org

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Comment by Cheryl Weiden on March 16, 2012 at 3:41pm: Fascinating 11 min lecture on the Future of Water given in Mar 2012 by William J. Cooper,Professor and Director,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Urban Water Research Center

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SF8KKxeTF4&context=C4089f72ADvj...

Comment by Scott Bryan on February 23, 2012 at 1:32pm: Imagine H2O's 3rd Annual Water Entrepreneurs Showcase

Meet the winners of IH2O's Wastewater Prize. Join the leading ecosystem for water entrepreneurship.

March 20 - Autodesk Gallery - San Francisco

Early Bird tickets still available:

http://ecocloud-sv.com/events/imagine-h2o-water-entrepreneurs-showcase

Comment by Scott Bryan on November 2, 2011 at 10:56am: Imagine H2O WASTEWATER Prize

Entries due November 15

Official Website: 2011 Wastewater Prize

Prize purse includes $200k in cash and in-kind services. All participants will receive written feedback from our judges.

Comment by Carol Steinfeld on September 6, 2011 at 11:23am: Just FYI: Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Resource R... features more than 50 profiles of wastewater resource-reclamation and rootzone-based "natural" treatment modalities in use worldwide. That includes Monterey's 9-town wastewater-to-farm-irrigation system, some of the most advanced biogas and heat capture systems, and many flow-specific and onsite systems. See community transit systems run on wastewater-derived methane, a development that diverts urine for animal fodder fertilization, and sculptures that clean river water. Explanations of system concepts are explained in layperson's terms. Hundreds have been sold to activists seeking to inform infrastructure choices in their communities.

Comment by Ursula Syrova on August 23, 2011 at 4:58pm: There is a small lake in Minnesota being rehabilitated with help from plastic floating islands (like the floating island chinampas of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico except made from plastic). No mention of the photo degradation of the plastic that could be eaten by small fish. Perhaps it is not an issue in this arrangement? The islands will be planted with aquatic plants and and the bacteria in the green slime that will form on the underside will help form artificial wetlands that will clean the water.

Comment by Tod duBois on July 9, 2011 at 12:43am: The graphic of the urban water supply should include the discharge river water running into the next dam or source, this educates people on the fact that we are already discharging waste into our fresh water sources. Also, the well system is not shown, where the sewer and recycled water use puts "dirty" water into our ground water sources and is then pumped up by the next municipality that pumps from the ground water source. This slowly degrading water quality cycle is important for the public to understand so they can get behind substantial changes to our usage and processes.

Comment by Heyward Robinson on April 13, 2011 at 3:25pm: Project Green21 has new short video on rethinking the way we use and manage water. Its very inspiring. Check it out: Got H20? (Segment One)

Comment by Heyward Robinson on March 25, 2011 at 5:29pm: The second annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit was held February 28 - March 2, 2011

This presentation may be of interest

"The Energy-Water Nexus"

http://arpa-e.energy.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=5MHRS3ClqXQ%3d&tabid=414

Comment by Tina Gonterman on December 2, 2010 at 4:15pm: FYI - South Bay Water Recycling (SBWR) produces water through a high level of treatment (dissinfected tertiary). The image named "ActewAGL Education Website" depicts recycled water at a lower level of treatment. If this were to reflect SBWR treatment, the purple pipe would begin after the wastewater treatment facility.