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‘Water for Life’ event to serve beer brewed from reclaimed wastewater at World’s Fair Park
Summary
Organizers told the Knoxville Beer Board they will serve beer made from treated wastewater at the Water for Life event in World’s Fair Park July 27-30, produced by three local breweries with water-treatment partners and KUB as local host.
The Knoxville Beer Board approved a special-event beer permit Tuesday for a Water for Life event at World's Fair Park where event organizers said beer brewed with treated wastewater will be served.
The permit matters because the event pairs water-professional outreach with a public demonstration: organizers said treated wastewater will be further purified, given to local breweries, and brewed into beer served at the event as an example of reuse technology.
Richard Yarborough, who represented the event, described the…
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