This one-of-a-kind event brings Scottsdale residents and visitors a chance to participate in the world’s first showcase featuring beer made exclusively with ultra-purified, recycled water from Scottsdale’s Advance Water Treatment
Plant.

Event Details
Come sample different beers, brewed by local craft breweries, make with ultra-purified, recycled water. Up to five breweries will be participating each night.
- Date:
- Nov. 3 & 4, 2023
- Time:
- 6 p.m.
- Location:
- Soleri Bridge, 4420 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ
During Canal Convergence
- Cost:
- Free to attend; there is an option to buy samples (includes sample mug and a sample at each brewery)
Participating breweries
Scottsdale Water is proud to announce its partnership with several local breweries to bring this fun, educational event to the area. The breweries committed to participating as all parties understand the importance of water sustainability and
conservation – especially during this time of prolonged drought and water shortages. Partnering breweries include:
- AZ Wilderness Brewing Co.
- Desert Monks Brewing Co.
- Fate Brewing Co.
- Huss Brewing Co.
- North Mountain Brewing
- O.H.S.O. Brewery
- Walter Station Brewery
- Wren House Brewing
What is direct potable reuse (DPR)?
Most water utilities reuse their water in some capacity. Returned water is processed, treated, and then sent to a natural buffer – like a lake, stream, or aquifer – where the water can then be retrieved, treated, and sent into the potable water
system.
DPR takes away the natural buffer and serves the water directly to the customer.
Scottsdale Water is the only permitted facility in Arizona to offer this water resource. After recycled water is treated, it undergoes several more purifying processes: ozonation, membrane ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet
photolysis. The final product results in a water quality which exceeds that of bottled water.
Comparing Scottsdale’s advanced treated recycled water to bottled water
Scottsdale’s state-of-the-art water quality lab tested a leading bottled water brand to the same standards used for the recycled water produced at the AWT Plant. The tables below include testing results for everything that was detected in either
water systems when tested. The second table lists more than 100 additional substances that were non-detectable in either water – down to the part per million.