Category: General

OSCAR and CLARA: The Future of Climate-Water Resilience

There’s something about water-reuse projects that give me a treated-wastewater-slurping grin when I tour them, and it was no different last week when I elatedly toured the City of Austin’s on-site, building-scale wastewater reuse demonstration project during its ribbon cutting. The 2011 to 2015 drought gave Austin quite the scare as the Highland Lakes disturbingly…

Climate Change COP-out?

The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) recently concluded. Running for two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, leaders from 200 nations worldwide came together to review and advance goals related to humanity’s response to climate change and create the Glasgow Climate Pact. Delayed a year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, COP26 was a check-in on…