Source:  Urban Land Magazine

Date Published: 10.20.2025

Link: From Liability to Asset: How Water Reuse Is Transforming Property Economics

Water is obviously an incredibly valuable resource. This article discusses the growing use of water and the water systems that are becoming increasingly overburdened and expensive to maintain. With the growing cost of water and the difficulty in securing its access, it is now becoming beneficial to invest in recycling systems and finding new methods of reduction and reuse. It discusses many of the regulatory shifts that many cities are trying in terms of water use. For example, San Francisco requires on-site reuse in buildings over 100,000 square feet. Other major cities are rolling out their regulatory and incentive plans. As much as this is an important issue, the article discusses how the problem is being approached from a rational perspective.