New SW Team Member, Seth Lanciani
Seth Lanciani recently joined SW’s business development and marketing team as a Business Development Specialist. A graduate of Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Seth received his degree in Business Administration and has a strong background in analytics, business strategy, and marketing. In addition to playing an integral role in SW’s preliminary client outreach and project initiation, Seth will support company marketing needs. Seth has a passion for critically analyzing problems and providing solutions for optimal business performance. With SW, Seth looks forward to continuing the water reuse messaging to clients across the country and to creating a better, more […]
Investors’ Growing Interest in Food-Industry Water Risk
The importance of water to the food industry cannot be overstated, and as risk associated with water becomes more widespread, it is gaining the attention of industry investors. Food and agriculture production use the largest share of the world’s freshwater resources (estimated at 70 percent). Consequently, those companies must consider and plan for water risk and its potential impact on both production and profits. In a 2017 report by Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization, and a follow-up to a report released in 2015, the organization evaluated ways in which 42 food and beverage companies were dealing with water risk in […]
Pittsburgh’s Two-Pronged Battle
Pittsburgh is often criticized for poor air quality, one report finding that the city has air of poor quality for breathing approximately 4 months out of the year. However, the city is also under scrutiny for its water quality. Its sewer systems, constructed in the early twentieth century, were designed to carry both wastewater and stormwater. With the recent increase in precipitation (and any time there is increased precipitation), the sewer systems have been unable to handle the augmented volume, which results in sewage in rivers and backups in people’s homes and yards. The water quality issues have resulted in […]
Wineries, Breweries and Recycled Water
California is one step closer to making it easier for wineries and breweries in the state to have onsite use and treatment of recycled water. State Senator Scott Wiener recently proposed a bill that would create the regulations necessary for the industries to treat and reuse water onsite. According to SF Bay News, the regulations would be developed by the State Water Board in collaboration with the California Department of Public Heath’s Food and Drug Branch and “would require water quality monitoring, notification and public information requirements, and reporting annually to the CDPH.”[1] The use of water in wineries […]
What Do Mt. Kilimanjaro and Waterboys Have In Common?
In 2013, Chris Long, defensive end with the Philadelphia Eagles, went to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and afterward, he ran into Joe Buck and Doug Pitt in a hotel bar. Pitt, Brad Pitt’s brother and the Goodwill Ambassador to Tanzania, along with Buck had gone to Tanzania to build a sustainable water well as part of the initiatives of WorldServe International, an organization dedicated to bringing clean water to East African countries. According to the Waterboys.org website, their discussion focused on the issue of water scarcity and by the time Long returned home, he had made the decision to […]