Several Atlanta institutions are getting recognition for their efforts to clean and conserve water. They’re on the Georgia Water Coalition’s annual list of 13 people and organizations that work to protect the state’s environment.
One honoree: Emory University’s WaterHub. It’s a sewage treatment plant that looks like a greenhouse, and it supplies 40% of the campus’s water, Joe Cook with the Georgia River Network said.
“And it is odor-free,” he said. “It processes some 400,000 gallons of sewage daily and returns that treated wastewater to the campus where it is used to flush toilets in some of the residence halls and is used to heat and cool campus buildings.”
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