The Brazos River Watershed is the second-largest river basin in Texas, supplying water to millions of residents, businesses and agricultural producers. Reducing unnecessary water loss through smart water management strengthens regional resilience and helps lower operating expenses for affordable housing communities at a time of rising utility costs, aging infrastructure, and growing demand for affordable housing.

Across the United States, affordable housing developers are facing a new water reality. Water is becoming scarcer while demand and costs rise.

In this episode of BuzzHouse, Don Bernards and Garrick Gibson talk with Orlando Valdes, vice president of business development at Ion Water, about how invisible water waste is draining operating budgets in affordable housing and what developers, investors and property managers can do about it.