A bipartisan coalition, Great Lakes ReNEW, will invest millions in new technologies to recover and recycle valuable minerals from our water.
Clean water has unlocked health and wealth since the beginning of time, and now it is in peril. As the risks posed by a warming planet accelerate and the world’s population grows, the need for clean water and better ways to manage it intensifies.
Even our “waste” water is precious. Over the next 10 years, a bipartisan coalition called Great Lakes ReNEW will invest millions of dollars in new technologies to recover and recycle valuable minerals, such as nickel, cobalt and lithium, from our water, and remove toxic chemicals such as per- and polyfluorinated substances, known as PFAS. The goal is to destroy what’s toxic and reuse what’s valuable.
And then, the third challenge is perhaps the hardest: getting industries and governments to adopt it. And the truth is, for that to happen, it has to be affordable or proved to save companies money or be publicly subsidized with tax incentives, similar to the way electric vehicle purchases have been subsidized. Editorial: Rumors of electric vehicles’ demise greatly exaggerated. Don’t let political attacks fool you.
ReNEW will also be helping nascent startups, such as Rapid Radicals, a spinout of Marquette University in Wisconsin, scale its wastewater separation technology. And in Ohio, we’ll be leveraging an industry-leading testbed in Lake Erie run by the Cleveland Water Alliance.
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