News and Resources

The Western United States is experiencing the driest two decades in at least 1,200 years. Technology and policy will need to play an increased role to ensure our water security. Read more on Commercial Property Executive.

The nutrients in human waste are drifting into our oceans and landfills instead of back into soils. But there are much better uses for human poo than flushing it down the drain. Read more on BBC.com. 

The bulk of water recycling now happens at centralized wastewater treatment plants, requiring thousands of miles of pipelines to move the water. This practice is neither efficient nor cheap. But as more municipalities begin to require water recycling in commercial and residential buildings, companies are stepping up with new methods of on-site water recycling. Read...

Companies such as the Gates Foundation-blessed Epic Cleantec hope to lower energy costs — and dent climate-change-related shortages. Read more at commercialobserver.com. 

14 projects improving water around the world, whether in our oceans or what we drink. See the full list of honorees of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards in the water category at fastcompany.com. 

From San Francisco to Somalia, where 60% of people lack basic water services, there’s a lot of promise in implementing decentralized water treatment and reuse systems. In the places that haven’t traditionally had centralized wastewater treatment, deploying decentralized systems could be a faster, cheaper way to democratize water access. Read more at workweek.com

Epic Cleantec (or “Epic”), the San Francisco-based onsite water reuse firm, announced today that it has successfully closed a $9.4 million financing round. The company has pioneered an approach to treat and reuse water in buildings and will use the funding to expand geographically and deepen its portfolio of technology offerings. Read more at businesswire.com. 

With the combined challenges of aging infrastructure, urban population growth, and an increasingly unpredictable climate, we simply need to do things differently when it comes to how we manage our water. As part of the Urban Water Challenge, Epic was thrilled to have partnered with Imagine H2O, 11th Hour Racing, and additional funding partners to...

This startup watches what SF flushes – and grows food with it. “You tend to be the recipient of lots of strange things when you’re sitting at the bottom of a sewer pipe,” Tartakovsky told The Examiner. “We have a flush-it-and-forget-it mentality.” Read more at sfexaminer.com. 

Our Co-Founder and CEO Aaron Tartakovsky joined Dr. Marshall Shepherd on The Weather Channel’s Weather Geeks podcast to discuss water, infrastructure, and what our technology is doing to conserve resources and manage costs. Listen now on all major podcast platforms: Apple Podcasts Spotify Audible Player FM

Our Co-Founder and CEO Aaron Tartakovsky spoke with Felicia Combs, meteorologist and co-host on The Weather Channel, about the importance of water reuse to commercial real estate and building sustainable infrastructure.

“Ten or 15 years ago, a green building was a ‘nice to have,’ whereas now it’s driven by regulations and the market,” said Aaron Tartakovsky, a co-founder and the chief executive of Epic Cleantec.

Epic Cleantec’s CEO on meeting conservation goals with innovative technology.

Host Greg Smithies, partner for climate tech at Fifth Wall, is joined by Aaron Tartakovsky, the Co-Founder and CEO of Epic CleanTec. Aaron explains why our wastewater management processes are remarkably outdated and reveals the massive cost savings that could come from modernizing them.

“We’re taking wastewater, which we actually don’t see as waste at all, and we’re showing people that wastewater really just consists of water, it consists of energy, it consists of nutrients, and it consists of organic matter,” says Aaron Tartakovsky, CEO of Epic CleanTec, the startup that makes and manages the recycling tech. “All of those...

Epic CleanTec (“Epic”), the San Francisco-based sustainability company that has developed a novel approach to onsite wastewater treatment and reuse, announced today that it has successfully secured $2.6 million in funding.

Let’s face it, in the new 754-unit NEMA luxury apartment building on San Francisco’s mid-market street — there will be a lot of showering, sink running and — well — toilet flushing. But Aaron Tartakovsky and his company, Epic CleanTec, are aiming to give all that water — and even human waste — a second...

The next decade promises to be pivotal for water. Under pressure from climate change, expanding population, aging infrastructure, urbanization and countless other factors, innovation is crucial to our ability to meet the world’s water needs. Imagine H2O’s Accelerator identifies and supports the best innovators in water. With 215 applications from 33 countries for 2020, the program...

If you want to go down a scary internet rabbit hole, search “water conflict” for a glimpse into a future that could be. A 2018 UN report warned that water shortages could affect five billion people by 2050, and would very likely result in wars, food shortages and energy crises. There are things I don’t usually think about that could massively...