Lunch & Learn: EPA NEWR

Tuesday, October 5 | 12 - 1 PM PST | ZOOM

The U.S. EPA’s Non-Potable Environmental and Economic Water Reuse (NEWR) Calculator is a simple to use web-based tool for screening-level assessments of source water options for any urban building location across the Unites States that is considering onsite non-potable reuse. Based on ZIP code and building characteristics, NEWR can be used by any building designer, utility personnel, or water resource professional looking to evaluate the relative cost and environmental impacts associated with different source water options for onsite non-potable reuse at a preliminary or screening level of detail, prior to them performing more detailed engineering calculations. It can facilitate planning strategies to help alleviate increasing pressures on water resources associated with climate change and increase local water supply resiliency. NEWR is recommended for evaluation of non-potable reuse systems in buildings with 50 or more occupants. NEWR supports the National Water Reuse Action Plan.

Link to EPA’s NEWR: https://www.epa.gov/water-research/non-potable-environmental-and-economic-water-reuse-newr-calculator

Presenter

Sam Arden

Eastern Research Group, INC

Sam Arden is a water resource engineer with a focus on efficient, safe and sustainable water management. Dr. Arden’s expertise covers a broad range of research, planning and modeling subject areas including non-potable reuse, stormwater, combined sewer overflows, water quality assessments of pathogens and emerging contaminants, and integrated assessments of existing and novel systems using environmental accounting methods such as emergy and life cycle assessment. He regularly supports tasks for EPA’s Office of Wastewater Management and Office of Research and Development.

Prior to working at Eastern Research Group, Dr. Arden worked as a consulting engineer throughout Florida on a range of stormwater design and wetland restoration projects. He has a background in systems ecology, having worked for over 7 years in the University of Florida’s Center for Wetlands and Center for Environmental Policy. He holds an M.E. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida and is a registered Professional Engineer.