Why Should We be Considering This Now?

While the short-term advantage of water reuse and resource recovery is conservation of water and energy, the long-term benefits are threefold: environmental protection, economic sustainability, and social sustainability.

Environmental Protection

• Reduce contamination to our water systems by decreasing water being taken and returned on a regular basis
• Decrease energy used to treat all water to an unnecessarily high standard
• Promote healthy aquatic ecosystems and reduce algal blooms and fish kills

Economic Sustainability

• Recover wastewater resources, such as biogas, thermal heat and nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen)
• Diversify the water services sector and build decentralized services when needed within growth areas
• Increase the availability of locally sourced resources

Social Sustainability

• Promote responsible use of renewable resources
• Build healthier communities with local recreational/food availability for future generations
• Develop water services resilient to demographic and climate changes