Every few months there’s a news report about the need to fix the aging water and wastewater infrastructure in cities. To engineer David Sedlak, the future contains more than just the Big Pipe. In his future, solutions will be customized to each situation and onsite technology may play a major role.Sedlak is a professor of engineering at the University of California-Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Water Center and deputy director of the engineering research center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure, a collaborative project involving several universities and funded by the National Science Foundation. The ideas he talks about
