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Thought Leadership

April 5, 2023

At the UN Water Conference, I Saw the World Supercharge Action On Water

By Aaron Tartakovsky Although 1 in 4 people globally lack access to clean and reliable drinking water, less than 2% of the $70 billion invested in climate tech last year went toward water solutions. That urgently needs to change if we want to improve sustainable, long-term access to clean water. The good news is that…

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Water

March 22, 2023

World Water Day 2023: Be the Change You Wish to See

How Epic Cleantec is accelerating the advancement of water Water plays a central role in our daily lives. We need water to grow and prepare the food we eat. We rely on water for most basic hygiene and sanitation needs. And we utilize it to power industry, from apparel and construction to the datacenters and…

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Company Announcement

March 9, 2023

An Epic Start to 2023: Wins for Water Reuse in Fast Company, TIME, and CBS

Our water challenges are multiplying — we are facing a hotter, drier world every year, with some regions facing too little water and others facing too much water. These water challenges deserve more mainstream attention to help galvanize action and ensure water security for our communities. However, things seem to be slowly turning around. After…

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Thought Leadership

February 20, 2023

What the World Economic Forum Showed Me: Water Security Relies on Cooperation

By Aaron Tartakovsky Epic Cleantec Co-Founder + CEO Having returned from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos a month ago, I’ve had some time to reflect on the experience. When I entered the water industry nearly 10 years ago, I came to learn that as omnipresent as water may be in our lives,…

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Company Announcement

January 9, 2023

Epic Cleantec
Year in Review: 2022

As we ring in the New Year and look forward to a productive 2023, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all our achievements from 2022. From growing the Epic team, to brewing our own recycled wastewater beer, to having our OneWater System named to TIME’s Best Inventions List, our successes have provided…

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Water

December 6, 2022

Epic Cleantec’s Recycled Water Beer Project

How (and why) we turned building greywater into delicious beer At Epic Cleantec, we like to do things differently. When we learned that Greenbuild, the largest sustainable building conference in the United States, was being hosted in our very own backyard of San Francisco, we knew we had a unique opportunity to advance the water…

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ROI

January 24, 2022

Calculating the ROI of Water Use in Buildings

How Does Water Reuse Benefit Building Owners? Onsite water reuse can also ensure property owners are in compliance with local water reuse regulations, such as those in San Francisco, CA, or can take advantage of local incentives, such as in Austin, TX (ahead of a 2023 onsite water reuse mandate). As drought across the United…

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