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1. What’s In An Underdrain? More Than You Might Think
   7/30/2014

   Media filtration is employed for a variety of treatment applications — drinking water, wastewater recycle/reuse, and pretreatment for desalination among them — but practitioners may be missing out on a key opportunity for savings.

2. Peristaltic Vs. Diaphragm Pumps
   7/29/2014

   Bill McDowell of Blue-White Industries, a supplier of chemical metering pumps and flow meters, recently sat down with Water Online Radio and explained the difference between peristaltic pumps and diaphragm pumps.

3. Rebuilding A Wastewater Treatment Facility Through Guaranteed Savings
   7/29/2014

   Honeywell played a key role in helping the Town of Lyons, CO, rebound from the catastrophic flood in 2013 with a plan to repair and enhance the wastewater treatment plant.

4. Happy, Healthy Operators: A Water Provider's Guide To Wellness
   7/29/2014

   All companies want to attract and retain a high-performance work force. Employee wellness programs are a great opportunity to position your organization as an employer of choice while pumping the brakes on rising insurance premiums.

5. The Benefits Of Process Monitoring
   7/29/2014

   Efficiency is the buzzword with utilities these days — there is little tolerance for wasted time, money, or water.

6. Bio-Dredging: Cost-Saving Sludge Digestion For Lagoons
   7/29/2014

   The City of Royston is a town located in Northeast Georgia operating a wastewater treatment plant that is comprised of a two‐pond (lagoon) system. 

7. Enhanced Flow Measurement For Challenging Flow Situations
   7/29/2014

   Flow metering is a key element in water plant operations and distribution. As operational efficiency has grown in importance over the past 5 years so has flow measurement, informing operators of flow rates, destinations, and critically, how much treated water is getting lost on its way to customers.

8. Fit-for-Purpose Water Reuse And The Road Toward Water Security
   7/28/2014

   The future of water resources for safe and reliable consumptive uses is uncertain. Today, hundreds of watershed basins worldwide experience water scarcity during some part of any given year.

9. Energy-Efficient System Design For Wastewater Treatment Plants
   7/28/2014

   Energy is the single highest operating cost in a wastewater treatment plant. More specifically, the energy to operate blowers for aeration is the single highest energy consumer. 

10. Corrosion Prevention, Energy Savings With Iron Pipe
    7/25/2014

    In this Water Online Radio interview, Maury Gaston of American Ductile Iron Pipe and American SpiralWeld Pipe talks about the many benefits of iron pipe and the company’s improved polyethylene encasement.