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Industry Leadership & Innovation
OCWD is an international leader in groundwater management, seawater intrusion barriers, and water reuse and purification.
Hundreds of engineers, scientists and water leaders from all over the globe visit OCWD each year to learn from its expertise. OCWD operates the world’s largest water purification project of its kind, the Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System.
The GWR System takes highly treated sewer water, destined for the ocean, purifies it to near-distilled water quality and puts it back into the groundwater basin and OCWD’s seawater intrusion barrier. The GWR System, a joint project of OCWD and the Orange County Sanitation District, produces near-distilled, high quality water for less than the cost of future imported water while using fewer gas emissions than required to import water from Northern California. |