Water Environ Res. 2018 Feb 1;90(2):187-192. doi: 10.2175/106143017X15054988926569.
In the spring of 2015, Emory University in Atlanta, GA, commissioned an innovative campuswide water reclamation and reuse system known as the WaterHub®. Treating up to 400,000 gallons each day, the system can recycle the equivalent of two-thirds of the University's wastewater production and reduce the campus water footprint by up to 40 percent.One of the first district-scale water reuse systems in North America, the WaterHub mines wastewater from the campus sewer system and repurposes it for beneficial reuse on campus. In its first year of operation, the facility has treated more than 80 million gallons of campus wastewater and is expected to save millions of dollars in utility costs for the University over the next 20 years. The system represents a new age in commercial-scale water management in which onsite, urban water reclamation facilities may be a new norm.
2015 年春,佐治亚州亚特兰大的埃默里大学委托建造了一个创新的校园范围的水回收和再利用系统,称为 WaterHub®。该系统每天可处理多达 40 万加仑的水,能够回收相当于大学三分之二的废水产量,并将校园水足迹减少多达 40%。作为北美首批区域规模的水再利用系统之一,WaterHub 从校园污水系统中提取废水,并将其重新用于校园内的有益再利用。在运营的第一年,该设施已经处理了超过 8000 万加仑的校园废水,预计在未来 20 年内为大学节省数百万美元的水电费。该系统代表了商业规模水资源管理的新时代,其中现场的城市水资源回收设施可能成为新的常态。