Water Values Podcast Sustainable Water Supply with Eastern’s General Manager Joe Mouawad
Feb 6, 2024
41:10
Eastern Municipal Water District (Eastern) General Manager, Joe Mouawad, provides a fantastic discussion of Eastern’s Purified Groundwater Replenishment Program and its attendant benefits, as well as a discussion about water usage and water efficiency in Eastern’s service area.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Joe’s background in water and path to Eastern’s General Manager position
- Eastern’s water resource portfolio
- Eastern’s brackish groundwater desalination program
- Eastern’s customer growth and how Eastern has creatively reused water
- Eastern’s Purified Groundwater Replenishment Program
- The groundwater infiltration and aquifer recharge process and cycle
- The climate extremes driving Eastern’s water resource portfolio diversification
- The federal and state support for the groundwater purification project
- How the aquifer recharge supports groundwater resources throughout the entire basin
- How the Water Master administers and improves the basin’s groundwater resources
- The groundwater replacement program’s impact on subsidence and energy usage
- Water efficiency measures adopted by Eastern
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