Explores innovative approaches to leveraging desalination brine as a resource for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal, addressing two critical environmental challenges simultaneously: freshwater scarcity and climate change.

Explore what’s holding circularity back and what it will take to make reuse, recycling, and resource recovery mainstream.

Explore how circular design thinking is turning wastewater into valuable resources and how public and private actors are enabling reuse ecosystems at scale.

This presentation explores converting water treatment residuals (WTR) from disposal challenges into valuable resources. The research demonstrates transforming aluminum-based WTR into high-performance ceramsite for phosphate recovery and construction applications, while examining its use for removing emerging pollutants like microplastics. This circular economy approach reduces landfill dependency and creates sustainable materials for various industries.

Get a special look at the world’s largest indirect potable reuse facility that has produced more than 400 billion gallons of water since 2008. A joint project of Orange County Water District and Orange County Sanitation District, the project serves as a global model for water reuse as the world's largest recycling project of its kind winning more than 80 national and international awards.