2025 Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #2: The values of the Net Zero Water concept and how it integrates with the adoption of the One Water Framework across Texas
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Lecture #2: The values of the Net Zero Water concept and how it integrates with the adoption of the One Water Framework across Texas
Speaker: Chandler Crouch, Texas Water Trade | Net Zero Water Engineer
Bio: Chandler is a professional civil engineer with nearly a decade in the Texas water industry. His professional tenure includes community based impact while serving in the US Peace Corps and detailed water project implementation for major municipalities across Texas. A native Central Texan, Chandler has a strong awareness of the balance between conservation of our water resources and the population driven development Texas is facing. Through leading the Net Zero Water Program, Chandler provides guidance and technical expertise to stakeholders and decision makers on applying onsite water reuse and conservation technologies. Chandler holds a BS in civil engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station and lives in Lake Travis, Austin with his wife.
Synopsis: Texas needs smart water management to meet growing water needs while facing declining supplies. Net Zero Water is a One Water strategy that invites the urban environment to contribute to water accessibility by leveraging water reuse at the building footprint scale. Buildings can be equipped to capture, store, treat, and reuse a variety of source waters such as air conditioning condensate, rainwater, and even treated wastewater to meet significant portions, if not all, of their water demands.
This reuse strategy improves a building’s water resiliency and reliability while alleviating strain on traditional groundwater and surface water supplies. Texas Water Trade launched the Net Zero Water Toolkit – a public resource designed to guide property developers, owners/operators, and other land development professionals in Texas from design, to permitting, to maintenance of onsite water reuse.
Across Texas, many projects have already recognized the advantage of Net Zero Water systems, and this presentation will explore the various sources, treatments, and uses for onsite reuse water and showcase technologies already operating in Central Texas.
