"Water reuse is one of the best tools we have for sustainable management of the public water supply. While other water sources are affected by natural swings and by the changing climate, recycled water is reliable in terms of quantity and quality. Human use of water leaves its imprint on the environment due to diversions from rivers, groundwater overdraft that can lead to land subsidence and loss of storage, and salinization of freshwater. We need to minimize that imprint, and intensively monitored water reuse operations are a safe, effective way of doing that."
Jean Moran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at California State University East Bay, where she is actively engaged in research in isotope hydrology and contaminant hydrogeology. Her research interests include: groundwater dating and groundwater contamination vulnerability, analytical methods for environmental geochemistry, chemical evolution of fluids in the Earth's crust, isotopic tracers in hydrogeology and environmental geology, artificial recharge, public health and drinking water quality, sources and transport of iodine in the environment, and sources and transport of nitrate in groundwater. Prior to joining the university, she spent 11 years as a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and maintains a strong collaboration with LLNL’s research group in Isotopic Tracers and Transport, and leads projects under the State Water Resources Control Board’s Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) program. Moran received a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Geology from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the University of Rochester.