Developing Compliance Models for Off Grid Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Systems
Date
15 February 2019
Overview
Our inaugural Compliance Conversation will focus on regulating and permitting systems that are diverse in technologies, uses and operation. Led by Dr. Clive Lipchin, Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management at the Arava Institute, the discussion will seek to answer the following questions:
- How can we develop regulations and permits for diverse water management systems?
- What should be the water quality standard?
- What measurements will be used?
- How will system operators and regulators work together on ensuring compliance?
Please register here to join us for this event. The sessions will take place during the following times:
- Session 1: Friday, February 15, 9:30 a.m. (GMT-4)
- Session 2: Friday, March 1, 9:30 a.m. (GMT-4)
Read the Issue Summary for this Compliance Conversation to learn more about the background on the topic.
If you are interested in participating as an expert in this Compliance Conversation, please email lilley@eli.org.
Presenter
Clive Lipchin
Center for Transboundary Water Management, the Arava Institute
Dr. Clive Lipchin was born in South Africa and raised in Johannesburg. Clive received his first degree in applied psychology and zoology with an emphasis on wildlife management on private game farms in South Africa’s Northern Province. Clive immigrated to Israel in 1991 and received a masters degree in desert ecology from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1996, he left Israel to pursue a PhD in resource ecology management at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. The focus of Clive’s PhD was public perceptions and attitudes towards water scarcity in Israel.
Clive joined the faculty of the Arava Institute in 2003 where he teaches a multidisciplinary course on water management in the Middle East. Clive oversees research projects, workshops and conferences that focus on transboundary water and environmental problems facing Israel, Jordan and Palestine. His specialty is in water resources management and policy. Currently, Clive is coordinating the TransBasin—Transboundary Water Basin Management Project, a project funded by the International Research Staff Exchange Scheme of the European Union. This project brings together researchers from Europe and the Middle East to study conflict and cooperation in river basin management and to identify the principles and mechanisms that both promote and hinder cooperation in river basins in Europe and the Middle East. Clive is also coordinating a USAID funded project on mitigating transboundary wastewater conflicts between Israel and Palestine and is conducting research on solar powered desalination of brackish groundwater in the Gaza Strip.
Panelists
Sarah Allard
CONSERVE
Sarah Allard is a postdoctoral fellow for CONSERVE, a Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, and Health. Sarah began her research career as an undergraduate, investigating the pollination efficiency and diversity of native bees on watermelon fields in the mid-Atlantic. After receiving her B.A. in Biology from Haverford College in 2009, she began an ORISE fellowship in the Division of Microbiology at the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. At FDA, she participated in environmental sampling for foodborne pathogens, evaluation of a food safety biological control agent, and optimization of Salmonella detection methods from environmental samples. As a graduate student in Plant Science at the University of Maryland, she studied the influence of farming practices and environmental conditions on the lives of microbes, including foodborne pathogens, in the complex agricultural environment. As part of the CONSERVE team based in the UMD School of Public Health, she is primarily working to characterize the microbiomes of nontraditional irrigation water sources including surface water and reclaimed wastewater. She is passionate about working towards the adoption of agricultural practices that are microbiologically safe, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable.
Rhett Larson
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Rhett Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, administrative law, and environmental and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy. Larson graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, and received his Master of Science in Water Science, Policy, and Management from Oxford University, where he was a Weidenfeld Scholar.
Professor Larson’s recent research focuses on the intersection of water law with food and energy security, the impact of technological innovation on water rights, and the law governing transboundary waters. Professor Larson has also written on the sustainability implications of a human right to water, corporate governance reforms to facilitate remediation of contaminated rivers, the water rights of indigenous people based on religious water uses, and the role of water management in aggravating and mitigating armed conflict. Professor Larson’s work has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Utah Law Review, the International Law Journal of London, and other academic publications. Professor Larson is a senior research fellow with Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute of Public Policy and is on the advisory board of the Morrison Institute’s Kyl Center for Water Policy.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Larson practiced law in Arizona, specializing in water rights, water quality, energy and mining law, and climate change.
William Piermattei
University of Maryland, Carey School of Law
Bill Piermattei joined the School of Law in 2010 after 10 years in private practice. In his role as Managing Director of the Environmental Law Program, he directs the Environmental Law Externship Program, advises students pursuing the certificate of concentration in environmental law, is the faculty supervisor for the Maryland Environmental Law Society (MELS), directs Environmental Law Program conferences and events, supervises the Environmental Law Program moot court and negotiation teams, teaches Environmental Advocacy and manages the day-to-day operations of the Environmental Law Program.
In addition to the above, Bill works on a variety of international initiatives. Along with The Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and Professor Percival, Bill is part of the Secretariat for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, an international academy of 200 member universities with programs focused on environmental law. He has co-edited the Proceedings of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law’s 10th Annual Colloquium, Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads, Edward Elgar (2014). Currently, Bill is developing and supervising interdisciplinary student projects addressing international environmental issues. Currently, this “project-based learning” model is focused on creating a legal, financial and regulatory framework for developing and managing greywater use for agriculture irrigation in Israel and West Bank off-grid communities, collaborating with the Arava Institute.
Prior to arriving at the School of Law in May 2010, Bill was an associate at Venable, LLP in Baltimore. During his career as a litigator, he represented businesses and professionals in a variety of different civil suits, including toxic torts, products liability, business torts, and professional malpractice. Bill graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law with honor in 1999 with a Concentration in Environmental Law.
José A. Rivera-Gómez
US EPA Region 2
Mr. José A. Rivera-Gómez joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1990 at the Region 2 office in Manhattan, New York, and since then has been directly involved with the implementation of the U.S. Clean Water Act Statute. At his present office in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, his team of dedicated engineers and scientists is responsible for the protection, restoration and maintenance of the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the surface waters in the U.S. Territories of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. He is responsible for the administration of several permitting, compliance assistance and enforcement programs applicable to industrial, commercial and construction activities, concentrated animal feeding operations, and municipal storm sewer systems under the authority of the Clean Water Act. This is achieved thru the administration of the industrial and commercial National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; by conducting technical reviews and evaluation of scientific data related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the U.S. Rivers and Harbors Act; by providing oversight of the San Juan Bay Estuary Program, including the Martín Peña Urban Waters Program and federal funding; by providing oversight of the Virgin Islands implementation of its Territorial Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program; and assisting in the review of environmental documents undergoing review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
In July 2006, Mr. Rivera received an EPA International Mission Award for his accomplishments in training environmental professionals in Central America and the Dominican Republic. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, where he obtained a Bachelor Degree in Science in Civil Engineering. He also studied English at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.
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