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The Partnering for Impact (PFI) event is a one-day, highly focused, interactive meeting of thought-leaders representing a cross-section of wastewater industry experts, practitioners, researchers, and regulators. These industry leaders strive to innovate and successfully integrate advanced technologies through local and regional partnerships. The goal of the PFI event is to foster partnerships and deepen utility, academic, and regulator collaborations with the aim of identifying specific issues where we can work together to create a positive impact, support community resilience, and promote national leadership in the water sector.

Partnering for Impact events began in 2016 in San Francisco, California, with 45 delegates from 15 national professional water organizations including Bluetech Research, Imagine H2O, WEF, AWWA, IWA, WRA, WRF, U.S. Water Alliance, NWRI, CWEA, SFPUC, and the LuminUS Group. The group met to explore the simple question, “how can we accomplish more by working together?”  Since the initial inspirational meeting, follow-up national PFI events occurred in Chicago, San Francisco, Reno, and Washington DC. In California, PFI is organized annually by CASA and sponsored by environmental firms, solution providers, and individuals who are active in CASA’s Engineering and Research Group.

This year, the focus of the event will be reverse osmosis concentrate management and the intersection of nutrient removal treatment and emissions at wastewater treatment facilities. As part of this event, we hope to discuss research questions that need to be answered and priorities for future inquiry or research, as well as develop a shared understanding of how these issues connect and ways we can work together to address them.