Fort Worth water reclamation facility uses less energy by making its own

354 views · Published 17 April 2015 · 1:30 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: The Dallas Morning News · 2015 · News & Politics

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The Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Fort Worth was honored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy for its progress as part of Obama's Building Better Communities initiative, which calls for companies and communities to reduce their energy usage 20 percent by 2020. Fort Worth is already halfway there, partly because of efforts like its water reclamation plant, which gets 75 percent of its own energy from methane gas emitted by the very wastewater it treats.

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