The 2015 World Water Week was hosted by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in August, at the City Conference Centre in Stockholm, Sweden with the theme of “Water for Development.”
Earlier in the month, SIWI presented the Stockholm Industry Water Award to CH2M, a global engineering company. The award was established in 2000 to energise and celebrate salient and transformative water achievements by companies in managing risks, improving production, contributing to wise water management, and finding solutions.
CH2M Awarded Stockholm Industry Water during World Water Week
CH2M, the first engineering company to receive this industry recognition, was awarded for its leadership in potable water reuse. The company first experienced notable success in the 1960s, through its pioneering use of a third advanced stage of effluent treatment during wastewater recycling, which removed excess nitrogen, phosphorus, and trace metals, thereby restoring the used water of the South Tahoe Public Utility to pristine purity.
The technology of treating used water back to drinking water quality has since, via various improvements, tests and large-scale implementation, been further refined, increasing efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.
CH2M is an engineering company that is in the forefront of recycling wastewater and making it potable, and it constantly continues to evolve water reuse practice, and by combining state-of-the-art technology and public education tools, it is winning public acceptance of the safety of potable water reuse.
Part of the secret of CH2M’s success and many awards is the fact that instead of designing separate systems to manage treatment capacity during wet weather and remove harmful nutrients in dry weather, the company has designed an innovative system to perform both functions.
We certainly need companies such as this to address the problems we have with water wastage and possible future water shortages, and they are the leaders in their field, but I am not entirely sure that I am quite ready to drink water that once contained effluent and who knows what else.
That being said, none of us can be too sure of what is in our tap water these days, so I will continue to rely on my Living-Water Pure water cooler for my drinking water, thank you very much!
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