Her prior professional experience includes serving as the Director for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) for the state of Maine (2000-2002), and as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She has also worked in management and technical positions with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Jones obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, where she studied the effects of stress on protein expression and metabolism, using nuclear magnetic resonance. She holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from Barnard College, Columbia University. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/130147.htm
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energy codes currently require, to some extent, pipe insulation on domestic hot water piping. Cost justification for DHW piping insulation has historically been based on the energy savings associated with reduced heat loss from piping systems. Often overlooked is the contribution of thermal insulation to conserving water. Water is routinely wasted as users wait for water at fixtures to become hot enough to use. Thermal insulation can help reduce the waste in some situations. Several green building codes have recognized this and require thermal insulation on all DHW piping. While the energy and water savings associated with DHW piping insulation will depend in part on the behavioral patterns of users, this study attempts to quantify the potential energy and water savings associated with typical hot water usage events. Estimated savings are compared to typical installed cost information to the economic feasibility of insulating all DHW piping in buildings.      Click here to download PowerPoint presentation      Click to watch video of presentation

Research Paves Way for High-Performing, Water-Saving Spray Valves | Stephanie Tanner and Holly Cannon

The presentation covered the results of EPA's recent field study on the performance of pre-rinse spray valves at various water flows. It discussed how the results of this study have paved a path for EPA to effectively evaluate the performance of water-efficient pre-rinse spray valves as it relates to user satisfaction. The attendees learned how a thoughtful research collaboration among manufacturers, product users, water utilities and government officials is helping to ensure that efficient, well-performing commercial kitchen spraying products can be differentiated in the marketplace.                 Click here to download PowerPoint presentation                 Click to watch video of presentation

Potential Health Risks from Reclaimed Water: What to Know and Avoid | Janet Stout - Special Pathogens Laboratory
Collection and reuse of greywater/rainwater for toilet flushing, irrigation & utility systems could replace 7% of drinking water production. This goal can be accomplished by capturing, treating, recharging, and maintaining all water flow from the building, thus minimizing ground-sourced and off-site sourced water. Unfortunately, there are potential risks associated with water reuse and grey water that includes amplifying waterborne pathogens like Legionella. Data from testing reclaimed water has shown the presence of a number of potential pathogens including Legionella, Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas and Klebsiella. Potential sources and links to disease will be reviewed as well as the waterborne pathogens that pose the greatest risk of infection from reclaimed water. A safe and sustainable water reuse program must address the potential public health implications of untreated reclaimed water. Control of microbial amplification in reclaimed water can be addressed through novel application of water treatment strategies.
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Final Barrier: A New Global Approach to Water Treatment | Pauli Undesser - WQA
Final barrier provides water treatment at the source of consumption. This new approach to water treatment allows the removal of contaminants to lower levels than central treatment, removal of contaminants not addressed by central treatment, and removal of contaminants that are introduced during or after central treatment. Civil engineers and utility managers globally are beginning to recognize that treatment at the Point-of-Use (POU) may be more cost-effective than centralized treatment. Point-of-Use (POU) or Point-of-Entry (POE) devices have been tested and certified for many different classes of contaminants: Inorganics such as lead and copper, Radium & Other Radionuclides, Volatile Organic Chemicals such as disinfection byproducts, Synthetic Organic Chemicals, Microbiologicals such as bacteria, cyst and virus, Aesthetic concerns such as particulates, taste and odor.This presentation of the final barrier concept will provide global examples of final barrier implementation, the US regulatory perspective, and guidance for residential consumers pursuing this emerging paradigm. 
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Standards – Improving Quality and Efficiency for your Industry | Christine DeJong - ASTM

Standardization plays an important role in the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing and trade in the global economy. Working in an open and transparent process and using ASTM’s advanced electronic infrastructure, ASTM members deliver the test methods, specifications, guides and practices that support industries and governments worldwide. ASTM unites both the public and private stakeholders from industry to develop consensus standards that guide research, production and use of alternative energy sources such as solar power, geothermal and biomass. In addition, the standards developed by ASTM committees cover a broad range of energy-related subjects, including petroleum, coal and coke, nuclear technology and solar energy, among others. The standards are leading the way for the more efficient use of all energy sources. Other ASTM efforts support efficient homes and office buildings, enhanced waste management, water quality and reuse, heat-metering and improved environmental assessment processes. This presentation will provide an overview of ASTM International and how ASTM standards are playing an important role in advancing needed energy innovations, improving water efficiency and providing standards solutions that will support the sustainability of our planet.                    Click here to download PowerPoint presentation                    Click to watch video of presentation

Measuring Sustainability – Credibility and Accountability | Len Swatkowski - PMI
The need to define a credible and transparent method to measure environmental accountability has been clear even before the Brundtland Commission and the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The difficulty lies in defining this accountability in terms that customers and consumers can understand and see value. This presentation will attempt to define the aspects of current life cycle analysis and sustainability and look at how global efforts to present this information to customers and the consuming public is still a complex and politically charged process.
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The Future of Water and Energy Efficiency in Commercial Applications - Even the Tipping Points Are Changing | Bill Hoffman and Tom Meyer
There is a new awareness about how things are done in our industry.  Dynamic changes continuously revolutionize design, installation and operation-maintenance.  Building owners face new expectations and decision-making processes.  Building users now have a voice in building design and retrofits as early as the design stage.  On-site power generation, cooling towers, stormwater regulations, new local energy and water conservation initiatives, and of course a rapidly changing economy make all of these issues almost impossible for the building owner, manager, engineer and tenants to comprehend.  On top of that, some of the old "tried and true" assumptions are going by the wayside as the tipping points for choosing one technology over another change. This presentation will examine how "going green" is changing the face of building operations.
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Grease Traps and Advanced Organic Waste Disposal | Alexander Brinkhoff
The state-of-the-art regarding wastewater and waste treatment by gravity separators and handling, storage and retention of food waste will be presented. In addition a short overview of Standards “PDI-G101” (US) and “DIN 4040” (Germany) was given.

The presentation’s provided short information about current developments in these fields and also to show risks and consequences of missing or inadequate measures of waste or wastewater treatment. Therefore enhancements with European Standard EN 1825 (harmonization, optimization, testing and effects) are very important. Raising experiences as well as continuous technical development are offering significant advantages for operators and staff of above mentioned facilities. According to European Standard some details of the usage of gravity grease separators like dimensioning of grease traps through operation, kitchen equipment or other sources, disposal of grease traps (intervals and ways of disposal) and maintenance. In addition to that sustainability and the chance of an effective renewable energy source will get into the focus. A disposal system for organic waste will be presented as a significant cost reduction for the general public will arise caused by reduced maintenance and cleaning efforts of public infrastructure like sewage systems, pumping stations or municipal wastewater treatment plants.
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The Last Mile of Safe Water Delivery: A Global Problem | Kyle Onda - UNC Water Institute
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) regularly estimates the proportion of each country that has access to piped and other types of improved water and reports that steady progress is being made on extending access to improved sources of water to ever-greater portions of the world’s population. As access to ostensibly safe sources increases, problems of contamination between source and point of use will become of increasing concern; this threat to water safety is the problem of the “Last Mile”. In some places, safe water is collected from community sources only to become unfit for drinking during transport to and storage in the home. In others, safe water is delivered to a building but becomes contaminated because of sanitary risks in the water distribution system. The Last Mile is conceptualized as being the priority threat to water quality when the water is verifiably safe at a distribution point and there are significant sanitary risks to the water along its transmission from a safe source to the point of use. In this work the only nationally representative water quality data currently available (that from the Rapid Assessment of Drinking Water Quality Project) is used to assess the number of people receiving water that is recontaminated during the last mile. National environmental and development indicators are used to create fractional logit models that predicted for most countries the proportions of piped and other improved water supplies that are microbiologically safe and, of these sources, the proportions that face elevated risk of contamination. We estimate that 1.2 billion people (18% of the world population) have access to microbiologically safe water from improved sources that nevertheless face significant contamination risks. We contend that this problem will require ever greater attention as more people gain access to improved sources, and as these sources age and accumulate ever greater sanitary risks. Addressing this problem will require use of innovative technologies, policies, programs and regulations.
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Technologies for Industrial/Municipal Water Reuse | Peter Cartwright
An introduction to the specific technologies which enable water from any source to be recovered and reused in virtually any application and provide understanding of technology choices and how they apply.
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Rainwater Harvesting - What is it Good For? | Bob Boulware
At a time of worsening and uncertainty of  healthy water quantity and quality conditions, shortages of freshwater from rising demand but shrinking resources, climatic oscillations such as more intense precipitation and runoff, and less snowpack but earlier melting making storage more difficult for long-term management, and degrading water quality of streams, rivers, lakes and oceans from stormwater runoff, it is incumbent upon those involved in water management to implement a sustainable water demand and supply side management paradigm.  Such a paradigm must focus not only on potable water solutions, but increasingly on local non-potable water resources, such as recycled water, greywater, rainwater and stormwater.  This paper focused on the benefits of rainwater and stormwater resources and management.
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Panel Discussion – “Keeping Our Plumbing Systems Safe; Exploring and Mitigating the Risk of Legionellosis and Other Pathogens” – Moderator, Jim Kendzel – Executive Director, American Society of Plumbing Engineers
  • Dr. William McCoy – Chief Technology Officer, Phigenics, LLC / Chair of ASHARE Guide 12
  • Dr. Jamie Bartram – Director, The Water Institute, UNC at Chapel Hill (or Joe LoBuglio)
  • Dr. Joseph Cotruvo – Principle, Joseph Cotruvo & Associates LLC
  • Dr. Janet Stout – Special Pathogens Laboratory
  • Tim Keane – Consultant, Legionella Risk Management, Inc.
  • Chuck White – PHCC 
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How the testing adjusting and Balancing spec affects “Green” buildings, IAQ, energy loss due to commissioning of the HVAC system | John Hamilton
This presentation covered the final component to make a HVAC system successful meeting in Green design requirements.  The importance of the testing adjusting and balancing of the HVAC system is the single most integral part of a building truly being healthy inside.  Reliable air and water flow data are critical for the designers trying to achieve a healthy indoor environment.  The integrity of the individual who performs the HVAC testing and balancing is a consideration that must be addressed.  The topics covered in this presentation will touch on the dos and don’ts of commissioning/retro commissioning and testing, adjusting and balancing of HVAC systems.  The correlation between indoor air quality, energy consumption and commissioning of HVAC system will be explained.  After the building is occupied, the issue of how occupants will keep the green building green was also discussed.
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Trends, Technologies and Barriers to Implementation of Efficient Water Use | Rob Zimmerman - Kohler

The past ten years have seen a great deal of improvement in the performance, capabilities, and efficiency of plumbing fixtures and fixture fittings. Even as these products continue to be specified and installed in buildings, we believe a second “wave” of technologies is on the horizon. These technologies will support the need to reduce per capita water use and improve water quality, while offering a range of other capabilities that consumers demand, or that society mandates. BUT, each of these faces significant hurdles, either in terms of technology, economics, or user acceptance. Therefore, it’s impossible to predict which of these technologies will become commercially viable and when that might happen, but we believe they are ripe for innovation.                 Click here to download PowerPoint presentation                 Click to watch video of presentation

Heavyweight Water User Reformed | Doug Bennett
The fastest growing population centers are in water-scarce western states. More than one in ten Americans rely on the Colorado River for urban supply, but drought and climate change threaten this critically important resource. Conservation and efficient use of urban supplies has become a major water resource strategy for nearly all arid cities. Despite improvements in technology of plumbed systems, many cities are finding that new housing consumes as much or more water than older, standing housing stock. This presentation takes a "backstage" look at urban water demand in Las Vegas and examines how water-efficient products, policies and programs are influencing future water demand in western cities.
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Potable and Process Pipe and Fitting Advances Utilizing Radio Frequency Fusion Welding Techniques | Stephen R. Barrett - Watts Water Technologies
Where once iron, steel or copper were the choices for residential and commercial plumbing, plastics have become preferred.  Current joining methods rely on solvent cements, mechanical clamps and butt or fusion weld techniques.  The primary potable pipe, PEX, uses cold expansion or crimp fitting systems.  Each of these choices has drawbacks. While cost-effective to install, PEX is not eco-friendly and requires a mechanical joining method that reduces flow and is prone to leaking.  PVC/CPVC and ABS require fittings that use difficult primers with potentially dangerous V.O.C.s.  Expensive copper requires numerous fittings, and a soldered or mechanical joint.  Strong, flexible PE and PP blends are fast becoming the pipe of choice.  Butt and fusion welding are most often used to melt pipes together, but are compromised by fitting costs and poor tool usability.  Radio-frequency fusion welding from Watts is a breakthrough in pipe joining with a cost-effective fitting and no heat or EMF’s. Clean OD sheer joints are stronger than the pipe, and can be used on any thermofusion plastic piping.
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