Intel’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler recently earned Platinum level certification from the Alliance for Water Stewardship.

In a news release, Intel is the first semiconductor company in the U.S. to be AWS Certified and the second company in the country to earn the Platinum certification, the program’s highest level.

AWS is the only certification standard that focuses exclusively on water stewardship. It offers a globally applicable framework for entities to understand their own water use and impacts, and to work collaboratively and transparently with others for sustainable water management within the wider watershed context.

At the Ocotillo campus, Intel’s 12-acre on-site water reclamation facility can treat up to 9.1 million gallons of water each day — this includes the ability to remove total dissolved solids, which is especially important in Arizona due to salt concentration levels in the water.

The facility enables Intel to reuse water within its on-site systems.
The campus is also home to the Ocotillo Brine Reduction Facility, a longstanding, innovative public-private partnership with the City of Chandler.

This facility has the daily capacity to treat up to 2.8 million gallons of water that has already been used in Intel’s manufacturing processes. The industrial water is reused by Intel, reducing the need for additional freshwater withdrawals from the city of Chandler

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