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The WaterHub at Emory University: Campus Resiliency through Decentralized Reuse.

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  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.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation
Volume
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90
Issue
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2
Number of Pages
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187-192
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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1061-4303
URL
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https://www.ingentaconnect.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1061-4303&volume=90&issue=2&spage=187&aulast=Allison
DOI
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10.2175/106143017X15054988926569
Short Title
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Water Environ Res
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