Wastewater Instrumentation News
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WWEM 2022 Sees United Utilities Win The Instrumentation Apprentice Competition And University Of Edinburgh Win The SWIG ECR Competition
10/24/2022
This year’s Water, Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring Conference & Exhibition was a resounding success all around with hundreds of exhibitors visited by thousands of attendees over the two days of the event.
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EPA Awards $1M To University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign For COVID-19 Research On Wastewater Systems To Track Current And Future Pandemics
10/19/2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
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Badger Meter To Feature Solutions For Intelligent Measurement, Water Quality And More At WEFTEC 2022
10/11/2022
Badger Meter will present solutions for intelligent measurement, reliable communication and actionable data at booth 529 during the WEFTEC 2022 conference and exhibition, October 10‒12 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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CDC Plans To Test National Wastewater For Polio As Community Spread Worsens
9/28/2022
As wastewater analysis rises in prominence, becoming a critical tool to track and combat the spread of disease, it will now be put to use to fight back against the reemergence of a life-threatening virus.
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OleumTech® Adds Smart DP Transmitter To H Series Instrumentation Platform
9/28/2022
OleumTech®, a leading provider of industrial automation and IoT solutions, announced the addition of a Smart Differential Pressure (DP) Transmitter to its fast-growing H Series line of hardwired process instrumentation.
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Preparing For The Next Pandemic: NSF Grants $1M To UB To Develop A Rapid Response System And Build Community Trust
9/27/2022
They introduced genomic sequencing of the coronavirus to Western New York. They sampled wastewater to determine the level of the virus locally. They partnered with local groups to boost vaccinations and share scientific information in user-friendly ways.
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Monitoring COVID-19 Virus In Honolulu Wastewater Focus Of UH Public Impact Research
8/29/2022
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are analyzing wastewater collected in Honolulu for the COVID-19 virus and its properties to gain a greater understanding of the virusʻs community spread.
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COVID Wastewater Monitoring Techniques Adapted To Track Monkeypox
8/16/2022
As wastewater analysis has proven a critical tool in combating the spread of coronavirus, researchers now plan to leverage these techniques in the fight against the next high-profile pandemic.
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Announcing New SWAN Leaders
8/16/2022
The Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) is pleased to welcome two new Council Members: Andy Smith, Smart Water Strategy Manager at Anglian Water and Eric Bindler, Senior Research Director at Bluefield Research.
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Wastewater Samples Detect Traces Of Polio In New York Wastewater
8/1/2022
Beyond screening for routine contaminants in the influent that arrives at wastewater treatment plants every day, wastewater analysis is playing a growing role in identifying the spread of deadly and highly infectious diseases. And officials have now turned to wastewater testing following the reemergence of a notorious virus in New York State.