Sid Singh – Chief Operating Officer Sid Singh is the COO of Sustainable Water and brings 20 years of finance and development experience with a specific focus on sustainable infrastructure for the last 10 years.  Select recent projects include clean energy power plants for public and private hosts, distributed energy management systems for commercial customers, and a dedicated finance facility for a series of hydroponic greenhouse farms. As a developer, Sid has lead teams to design, build, own, and operate sustainable infrastructure facilities characterized by the use of existing proven technologies, high quality technology and construction partners, and contractual, long-term off-take […]

A recent study conducted by Michigan State University found that as many as one-third of Americans may be at risk of not being able to afford water by the year 2020.  The objective of the study was to highlight the likely impact of increasing water prices on communities with higher concentrations of low-income households.  Of the ten states at “high risk,” a majority are located in the south east.  Tennessee is ranked sixth. The study took into account the average monthly usage by household (12,000 gallons in 2014), the average cost of that amount of water and the salary necessary […]

In July of this year, the University of Virginia’s water and sewer rates increased and will continue to increase until 2021 when the University will pay full city water and sewer rates instead of the reduced rates they have paid since 1981.  The bargain rate was the outcome of the U.Va.-City 1981 Water and Sewer Agreement, which “established that water delivered to the University’s water distribution system instead of directly to a University building would only be paid for with 25 percent of the normal retail rate over the wholesale rate of water.”[1]  City of Charlottesville Director of Utilities, Lauren […]

In a time when water scarcity is the norm for much of the country, environmental pressures effect numerous industries including breweries.  “On average, it takes about 4 to 5 gallons of water to produce a gallon of beer, making it a water-intensive industry.”[1] The city of Burlington, Vermont has six breweries, which does not seem like a lot.  However, in recent years the volume of beer produced by these breweries has increased and so, too, has the waste.  “Brewery waste includes yeast, spent grains and hops, and managing waste is expensive and challenging, local breweries say. Managing water and wastewater, […]

Although water is vital to sustain human life, water is equally vital to the economic foundation of the Permian Basin in west Texas.  Recently, large energy corporations have employed more intense fracking techniques to efficiently retrieve oil and gas.  This practice places an even greater amount of stress on the valuable commodity of water, which is already a scarce resource in the semi-arid western Texas climate.  The increase in the volume of water required for oil and gas operations has raised the question of how can “energy needs coexist with the needs of the people and animals and other industries […]