Pure Water San Diego

Since opening in June 2011, nearly 19,000 people have toured the City of San Diego’s 1-million-gallon-per-day Pure Water Demonstration Facility in person, but the tour is now also available to everyone online

Today is #UNDay, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of when the UN charter was put into action and set the stage for international cooperation on global issues like universal access to safe, clean water, among other sustainable development goals (SDGs). Which SDGs do you think are most relevant to the Pure Water San Diego Program? Let us know in the comments.

Today is Imagine A Day Without Water, a day to #ValueWater and highlight its importance to people, businesses, and the community. What does water mean to you? Health? Food? Fun? Here is what our Pure Water Demonstration Facility tour attendees had to say!

The latest edition of Pure News is out now and includes information about Pure Water construction updates, our virtual tour and educational resources for teachers! Check out Pure News here. http://bit.ly/PureNewsOct2020

For this week's #OneWaterWednesday, we're taking you on a virtual tour of the Pure Water San Diego facility. Check it out!

To close out #WaterProfessionalsAppreciationWeek, we would like to thank all the members of the Pure Water team for their efforts toward providing San Diego with a safe, local and reliable water supply. Thank you for all you do each and every day!

Our next #WaterProfessionalsAppreciationWeek shoutout goes to Anthony Van, an Associate Engineer with the Pure Water Program and the Project Manager for the North City Pure Water Facility. Anthony appreciates the priority given to water quality and treatment technology with the Pure Water Program and the opportunity to be more involved in water solutions, working to provide the best water quality services for the citizens of San Diego.

#PureWaterSD is celebrating #WaterProfessionalsAppreciationWeek with shoutouts to some of the City team members who helped create our Virtual Tour! Carolyn Ginno is a Senior Water Resources Specialist who develops public policy impacting the Pure Water Program, typically through formal regulations or legislation. She believes in the shared duty of stewardship of our limited water resources and thinks water recycling and potable reuse are the best ways to meet our 21st century water needs, sustainably.

Great news for Pure Water San Diego! The City refinanced a big U.S. Environmental Protection Agency loan to take advantage of low interest rates and saved nearl...y $300M for taxpayers. We are investing in our future and doing it the right way! https://fox5sandiego.com//city-refinances-loan-for-pure-w/ See more

Happy World Teacher’s Day! This year’s theme is: Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future. #PureWaterSD recently added a guided virtual tour of the Pure Water Demonstration Facility to our educational toolkits that teachers can use as a supplement to their lesson plans for in-class or virtual learning. To request an educational toolkit email [email protected]

After the five-step purification process, we have Pure Water. Here’s Jeff Pasek, a biologist and reservoir specialist with the Public Utilities Department to discuss the purity of the water that will be conveyed and discharged into the Miramar Reservoir. Check out the full virtual tour video here: http://bit.ly/purewatervirtualtour.

For our final step of the purification process, we have Carolyn Ginno, Senior Water Resources Specialist with the Public Utilities Department explaining ultraviolet disinfection and advanced oxidation. For the full virtual tour video, visit http://bit.ly/purewatervirtualtour.

The fourth purification step for #PureWaterSD is reverse osmosis, presented by Amy Dorman, Deputy Director of Pure Water Operations. Watch the full virtual tour video at http://bit.ly/purewatervirtualtour.

Anthony Van, Associate Engineer on the Pure Water Program, takes us through the third purification step for #PureWaterSD, membrane filtration, as part of our virtual tour. Check out the full virtual tour video at http://bit.ly/purewatervirtualtour.