Artificial Intelligence Fueling Wasco's High-tech Water Treatment Plant

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Artificial Intelligence Fueling Wasco's High-tech Water Treatment Plant

For the first time in California, water treatment is leveraging artificial intelligence, a game-changing alternative that may spread to oil fields across the country, and it's starting in Kern County.

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The hundreds of gallons of oil Kern County produces every year is just a drop in the bucket compared to how much water that comes with it.

One barrel of oil can produce up to 100 gallons of waste water, costing the oil and gas industry hundreds of millions of dollars to dispose of.

Arian Edalat, president and general manager of Los Angeles based company, MembranePRO Services LLC. His company's technology is responsible for turning brown, oil-polluted wastewater, into clean, reusable water.

Wasco's brand new water treatment plant is the first in California to tap into Edalat's technology.

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