Sustainable Water Supply with Eastern’s General Manager Joe Mouawad

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

Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:

• Joe Mouawad LinkedIn profile
• Eastern Municipal Water District’s Website

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