Leading Edge Utility Developments – A Forum to Discuss
- Utilities implementing leading edge technology
- Utilities developing leading edge technology
- Utilities needing leading edge technology
Date: Monday 1st June 2020
Time: 9.30am – 15.30pm
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Collaborating organizations
Utility List (To be confirmed)
- City of Sapporo, Japan
- Rand Water, South Africa
- Southern Nevada Water Authority, USA
- MWD of Southern California, USA
- Truckee Meadows Water Authority, USA
- MWRD of Greater Chicago, USA
- Denver Metro, USA
- HRSD, USA
- New York City DEP, USA
- PUB, Singapore
- Ruhrverband, Germany
- Los Angeles CSD, USA
- Aarhusvand, Denmark
- KU Water, Korea
- Scottish Water, UK
- San Francisco PUC, USA
- Queensland, Australia
- Watercare, New Zealand
Luncheon Keynote
Peter Grevatt
CEO, Water Research Foundation
Peter Grevatt, Ph.D. is CEO of The Water Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. As the leading water research cooperative, WRF funds, manages, and publishes research on the technology, operation, and management of drinking water, wastewater, reuse, and stormwater systems—all in pursuit of ensuring water quality and improving water services to the public. With close to 1,200 subscriber members in the U.S. and abroad, the Foundation has funded and managed over 2,300 projects valued at more than $700 million.
Dr. Grevatt has over 30 years of experience leading the implementation of public health and environmental protection programs including significant national leadership experience in the water sector. Most recently, he served as Director of EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) where he was responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation’s drinking water supply through the development and implementation of national drinking water standards, oversight and funding of state drinking water programs, and the implementation of source water protection and underground injection control programs.
Prior to joining OGWDW in 2012, Dr. Grevatt served as Director of the Office of Children’s Health Protection and as Senior Advisor to EPA’s Administrator for Children’s Environmental Health. In addition, Dr. Grevatt has held leadership roles in EPA’s national hazardous waste and water quality programs. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Basic Medical Sciences from New York University Medical Center and earned his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
Forum Co-chairs
David Jenkins, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Charles B. Bott
Director, Water Technology and Research, Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Patricia Mulroy
Senior Fellow, UNLV Boyd School of Law, Former GM, Las Vegas Valley Water District
Erica Marti
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Patricia Mulroy
Senior Fellow, UNLV Boyd School of Law;
Former GM, Las Vegas Valley Water
District & Southern Nevada Water Authority
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