Bruno Pigott

Like, a lot of people were sharing it and being like, "Please talk to her because I wanna read this article." So I got a lot of outreach from, like, very overqualified people, which I love that.

I mean, one of the people you said was, like, way, way overqualified, um, was Bruno Pigott, who used to be in charge of, like, wastewater for the EPA under the Biden admin- administration.

Yeah.

How did Bruno respond when you approached him with this question? [laughs]

Can data centers use recycled water? Reusing wastewater is not new.

So these water treatment facilities, they take recycled water, and they use various different complex technologies that I cannot explain to you, like membrane bioreactors, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet light, and other processes where they're treating water until it's clean enough for industrial use.

use.And Bruno Pigott, the guy formerly in charge of wastewater at the EPA, told Amanda something really interesting.

I keep saying EPA 'cause it's just cool that he used to be so high up in the government.

This upcoming guide is an attempt to take a decade of hard-won lessons from state rulemaking processes and put them in one place so any state can work through this on its own terms.

To walk us through it, I talked with Bruno Pigott, who is Executive Director of the Water Reuse Association and served as Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Water in 2024.

Tricia Kilgore is the Director of Innovation and Technology Leadership at Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority in South Carolina.

and a member of the guide's technical advisory committee, where she brought the perspective of a utility that is right now in the middle of a state rulemaking process.

Today we'll be learning about the State Water Reuse Regulatory Guide.

It is a sector-wide project led by the Water Reuse Association, managed by consultants Brown and Caldwell and Hazen and Sawyer, and supported with funding and guidance from the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, the American Water Works Association, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, and the Water Environment Federation.

We're talking with Bruno Pigott.

Bruno is the executive director of the Water Reuse Association and served as the acting assistant administrator for the Office of Water at the EPA in 2024.