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Water Efficient Technologies (WET) Testimonials
Here's what some past participants have said about the
incentive program ...
 Details has grown tremendously in the last four
years. As a circuit board manufacturer in a highly competitive market,
we look at water and utility use as ways to cut costs. By taking advantage
of Water Efficient Technologies, we installed a brand new process line
with automated features, in-line reuse, and low-flow fluid heads. The
project made sense without the rebate, but even more with it. Our water
efficiency project saves Dynamic Details 10,000 gallons per day and has
helped us grow our business while saving water. We were worried about
added paperwork, but WET staff was easy to work with. — Marino Finley, Facilities
Manager, Dynamic Details, Inc.
 In March 2000, Hadco replaced one of the DES (Develop,
Etch, Strip) lines with a new system that integrates water reuse and uses
pumps instead of high water volumes to provide the necessary spray fan.
The incentive program helped such projects make immediate business sense.
The $50,000 rebate and the water savings of more than 27,000 gallons per
day have motivated us to retrofit our other DES lines with similar features. — Aasha Sachdev, Environmental Manager and Mike Sooter, Environmental Coordinator, HADCO Santa Clara
 In 1999, Intel received a rebate of nearly $45,000
for a water conservation project that makes perfect business sense and
helps to protect the salt marsh habitat of the Bay. We now recycle reject
waters from our reverse osmosis system in our on site cooling towers.
Intel saves more than 80,000 gallons of water per day, and our payback
period was less than a year. This investment has truly paid off by decreasing
our dependency on outside water supplies and helping the environment. — Arman Nikfar, Chemical Engineer, Intel Corporation
 Since 1997, we have reduced our discharge by more
than one third and received $82,000 in rebates. At our semiconductor facility
in Milpitas, we installed flow restrictors on our rinse lines and are
recycling more than 26,000 gallons per day of industrial wastewater in
our fume scrubbers and cooling towers. The financial incentive program
helped reduce the payback period to a level that won overriding management
approval, allowing the projects to be implemented.
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Brett Martinez, Manager Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities, Security, Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems
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