Learning Opportunity: Getting Started in Water Circularity

By Resource Innovation Institute|February 23, 2024

The Resource Innovation Institute (RII) will be hosting its first webinar of 2024, “Getting Started in Water Circularity: How To Really Achieve 90% Water Savings, on Feb. 28 at 1:00 p.m. EST.

RII’s 2023 Benchmarking Report showed that some greenhouse and CEA facilities are capable of achieving the oft-repeated savings of 90% of the water that field production of food requires. This free webinar will discuss strategies for how this can be done, and feature expert insight from panelists Andy Lee of Grodan and Kyle Lisabeth of BlueWTR – a subsidiary of ARCO/Murray.

Growers of any size or level of technology will take away recommendations they can put into practice immediately, while also planning for a climate-smart future. Topics for this webinar will include:

  • Smart irrigation
  • Leak/waste reduction
  • Water recapture and storage
  • Rainwater capture
  • Condensate recapture
  • Updates on proven water disinfection and purification technologies

You can register for the webinar here.

Resource Innovation Institute (RII) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance resource efficiency to cultivate a better agricultural future. Founded in 2016 in Portland, OR, RII’s Board of Directors includes the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a former Energy Policy Advisor to two Oregon governors, a former board member of the U.S. Green Building Council and leading cannabis industry players. The organization has unique expertise on intelligence, policy and education related to energy use in controlled environment agriculture (CEA).
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