• Navigating The Waters of the United States Rule

  On December 11^th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) proposed a new definition of “Waters of the United States” to replace the 2015 definition adopted under the Obama administration. That definition has been subject to a variety of litigation over the past three years, causing its application to be sporadic at best.

• Michigan Water Rules Prompt Lawsuit

  Water utilities in Michigan are suing the state over the implementation of the toughest lead rules in the country.

• How To Develop The Best Construction Dewatering Solutions

  Basic construction activities today are more complex than ever when it comes to environmental concerns. Dewatering is a common necessity for contractors and developers today. In addition to ensuring a safe construction site, contractors must be aware of groundwater disposal constraints and regulations.

• Enhancing HVAC Performance: Siemens Clamp-On Flow Meters Chosen For NYC Building Complex

  A commercial real estate corporation that owns, develops and operates premier properties in major North American cities was one of the earliest companies to recognize the benefit of individually metering tenants for their utility usage. When designing a prestigious building complex in New York City, the company sought a flow meter that would facilitate this task. After careful consideration of several options, the choice became clear: clamp-on ultrasonic flow technology from Siemens.

• Saving Energy And Enhancing Environmental Sustainability At A Top University In Asia

  At one of the most prestigious universities in Asia, the main campus comprises a large number of buildings clustered within an area less than 2 km2 (1.2 mi2). Because the university was built more than a century ago, many facilities on the campus were never fitted with the proper instrumentation for energy measurement, making it difficult or impossible to monitor the performance of most HVAC systems, including the cooling system.

• Field Test Turns Clamp-On Ultrasonic Skeptics Into Believers

  After having been reluctant of using clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters for energy measurement in cogeneration plants in large residential and commercial buildings, a USbased engineering firm was convinced by the clamp-on meter’s strengths.

• How Do You Know If Your Ozone Contacting System Is Well Mixed?

  Mixing is something that is often taken for granted when designing systems for water and wastewater treatment. Perhaps “taken for granted” is too harsh a term. Let’s instead say that while designing a treatment unit operation or process, mixing as a phenomenon is automatically assumed to occur — an assumption that forms the basis for process controls, performance guarantees and measurement methods and locations.

• Meter Reading Dangers

  Did you ever have a paper route or go door-to-door selling items to your neighbors for a charitable cause in your younger years? Remember the house with the big dog? Or the overgrown yard? Maybe even the dark house at the end of the lane that the spooky old woman known to all as “the witch” lived in?

• Flood Cloud: How Cloud-Based Modeling Capabilities Can Help Boost Cities’ Resilience And Infrastructure Needs In The Face Of Climate Variability

  Combining technologies can deliver a detailed and robust understanding of flood risk.

• Rotary Drum Thickener Virtual Tour (ThickTech)

  The video provides a different perspective on the sludge thickening process and explains how various features combine to make the ThickTech the best option for low polymer usage and the highest capture rates of 98% or more.

• 5 Key Steps To Better Plastic Piping Designs

  Most people understand the inherent benefits of plastic piping — chemical resistance, installation speed, ease of assembly, cost efficiency, longevity in corrosive, harsh exterior or underground environments, etc. Not everyone, however, fully appreciates the nuances of plastic piping design that help to maximize those benefits most efficiently.

• Vegas Planners Prep For 'Doomsday' On Colorado River

  Las Vegas water planners are prepping for a harrowing possibility: The disappearance of the Colorado River.

• EPA Uses Floating Vegetated Islands To Remove Excess Nutrients From Water

  Harmful algal blooms — the overgrowth of algae in water — are a major problem across the nation. Blooms occur when excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), combine with sunlight, and warm temperatures in water bodies. They can cause severe, negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems, the economy, and human health.

• Trouble In Paradise, And A Plan To Alleviate It

  While San Diego has a reputation for beautiful weather in a sunny seaside setting, its growing population in the southernmost area of rain-starved California is a recipe for trouble in paradise. That challenge has spurred the creation of Pure Water San Diego — a multi-phase, multi-year program with the goal of using recycled water for up to one-third of San Diego’s water supply by the year 2035.

• White House Utility District Uses ArcGIS With The PI System For Leak Detection And Remediation

  Carl Alexander, the GIS Director for White House Utility District describes how the utility integrated and used data from the PI System and ArcGIS to recover $900,000 in water being lost through leaks and reduced data prep time from 6 hours to ten minutes.

• Rapid Microbial Assessment Following A Case Of Legionellosis

  A case of legionellosis — an illness acquired from Legionella bacteria, which can grow in cooling water and potable water systems — was diagnosed at a medical retirement home.

• White House Utility District Reduces Costs By Over $1 Million

  In 2007, White House Utility District (WHUD), a water utility serving approximately 90,000 consumers and businesses in Tennessee, faced a dilemma: how to meet a projected growing demand for water within the budget and capital constraints faced by municipal and mid-sized utilities everywhere.

• Shedding Light On Austin’s Boil-Water Notice

  Water delivery in Austin, TX, was challenged by historic flooding in October, prompting an unusual turn of events for a major city.

• In Philly Suburb Water Crisis, Tests Reveal Chemicals In Blood

  The first blood tests results were released since water contamination in the Philadelphia suburbs came to light, and they provide a glimpse at potential health effects for residents.

• Thames Water: Using IT/OT Data To Change Behaviors To Hit KPIs

  Thames Water focuses on extracting value from specific combinations of structured and unstructured business data together with real-time operational data provided by Thames' PI System from across more than 3000 plant and 140,000 km of water and sewerage networks.

• Expansion Of Wastewater Treatment Facility Includes Women’s Employment Plan

  Newfoundland’s Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment has added an interesting condition to its approval of Grand Falls-Windsor’s $10-million wastewater treatment facility upgrade. As reported in The Compass, the town must develop a Women’s Employment Plan for the construction phase of the project.

• Turning Down The Power On High Recovery Desalination — A Global Need

  Envision a world absent of a water crisis, an end to the threatened health and economic welfare affecting nearly 1.5 billion people due to water scarcity. Clean, safe, fresh water is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century and we are only scraping the surface on achieving public awareness. As our global population increases, access to clean water decreases; a metric with diminishing returns.

• Metro Vancouver, Canada: How Executives Across Lines Of Business And IT Use PI

  Metro Vancouver integrates their Microsoft suite with the PI System to empower people to achieve their environmental sustainability goals.

• Small Town, Big Water Problems

  In the Louisiana community of Enterprise, tap water is so unappealing that one woman drives 20 miles each way to do her laundry in another town, according to CNN.

• Las Vegas Valley Water District My PI Story

  Matthew Au of Las Vegas Valley Water District describes using AF Transformer to speed up AF structure creation to build a better database.

• Fort Worth Texas Tackles Stormwater Infiltration Treatment With Dynajet Dry Polymer Feed System

  Like wastewater treatment plants across the country, Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility experiences fluctuations in the volume of water to be treated due to the inflow and infiltration of stormwater. During storm events, this variation can be between X and Y mgd.

• Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flowmeters: How They Measure Up

  Not cool enough in summer. Not warm enough in winter. Guests staying at a prestigious country club in New York state complained regularly about the air conditioning and heating of their luxury suites and apartments. The geothermal heat exchange system serving this facility had never, in fact, been fully functional.

• How Farms Can Tend To The Energy-Water Nexus, Reduce Costs, And Help Their Communities

  Across the country, farmers face unrelenting pressure to conserve both water and energy. From California to Texas, recent droughts and declining groundwater levels require more pumping to provide irrigation water for crops. Pumping water takes energy, as do many other precision agriculture tasks involved in running a successful farm today. This symbiotic relationship between water and energy use — often called the energy-water nexus — is taking its toll on America’s agricultural industry.

• Maynilad Water: Breaking Data Silos — Right Data To The Right People At The Right Time

  Dr. Francisco Castillo speaks on their FIELD MOUS system (Field MOnitoring User System), where a PI System acts as a repository of technical data into which different departments plug their data, and other departments access it to fit their particular needs.

• Hormone-Disrupting Herbicide Widely Detected In Tap Water

  A new report from an environmental group points to a potential atrazine problem in tap water.

• HUBER Drum Screen LIQUID

  The characteristic feature of the HUBER Drum Screen LIQUID is its screen basket which is horizontally installed in the channel or in a tank.

• Fine Screening System: The More Intelligent Primary Clarifier

  In the discussion about limited resources and energy saving in sewage treatment plants innovative sewage treatment methods are increasingly becoming a focal point. In Germany, there are about 1,200 sewage treatment plants which are designed for 10,000 to 50,000 PE, about one third of them have a sludge digester. Thus, there is a potential of about 800 sewage treatment plants that remains for a change from aerobic sludge stabilisation to processes with anaerobic sludge stabilization.

• Colorado Springs Utilities Streamlines Operations With Centralized PI System Data

  One of the nation’s largest four-service utility providers, Colorado Springs Utilities supplies energy and water to over 450,000 people. The state-certified laboratory of the Water Quality Assurance section processes over 14,000 samples and 80,000 analytes per year from eight watersheds, seven finished water treatment facilities, 38 finished water reservoirs, four post-chlorination stations, two wastewater treatment facilities, and over 2700 miles of pipeline.

• How To Turn Data Into A Difference-Maker

  With the proliferation of sensors, data collection, and cloud storage, there is the potential for operational insight heretofore never available, and the opportunity will only expand as the technology evolves and the Internet of Things becomes, well, more of a thing. But data is only truly useful if it informs decision-making that results in positive impact — for an organization's bottom line, its personnel, its customers, or even the world at large (i.e., the environment).

• Colorado Springs: From Data To True Business Impacts

  Colorado Springs Utilities internal customers can see lab results more quickly and as a result are reducing costs by optimizing their facilities by 30%.

• Capacitive Deionization Takes Off

  Capacitive deionization (CDI), sometimes called electrochemical demineralization, is referred to as Radial Deionization (RDI) by Atlantis Technologies, which has developed a proprietary form of the process. If you haven't heard of it by any name, or would like to know more about its considerable treatment capabilities, tune into this interview with Patrick Curran,

• Filtration For A New Era

  Filtration has been around for a long, long time, so it may be that most treatment plant operators feel pretty informed about its capabilities. But hearing from Brian Frewerd, Director of Application Engineering with Parkson Corporation and Water Talk guest, will likely prove enlightening. Frewerd provides background on sand filtration for tertiary treatment applications, followed by insight on notable technology improvements and performance milestones

• Water Corporation, Perth

  Ian Scott describes the key landmarks in its use of the PI System and the evolution towards using the PI System as the cornerstone infrastructure of its business.

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  Submersible motor agitators are often used in the homogenisation and suspension of fluids. Stringy solid matter, however, which tends to form strands in waste water and can cause clogging, represents a significant threat to these systems.

• CG/LA & HCSS Forms Global Partnership To Support Infrastructure Investment

  CG/LA Infrastructure is pleased to announce that HCSS (Heavy Construction Systems Specialists) will be a Platinum Partner of the 12th Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum and support the Global Infrastructure Challenge, joining Trimble as industry partners of this groundbreaking approach to catalyzing infrastructure development.

• Corvias And Stormwater Authority Of Chester Improve Local Stormwater Infrastructure

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• NARUC Commends EPA And Army Corps For Revised WOTUS Proposal

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• Industry Leaders Share Experiences At Women in Water

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• Endress+Hauser Launches The Liquiline Compact CM82 Transmitter

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• EPA Awards $12.2M To Commonwealth Of Northern Mariana Islands

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.1M to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality (BECQ) to strengthen its capacity to protect human health and the environment.

• EPA Data Shows Regulated Water Companies Deliver Higher Quality Water Than Government-Run Systems

  An expanded analysis of the largest and most comprehensive study conducted on Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance shows that community water systems owned by regulated water companies are significantly less likely to violate the SDWA than water systems owned and run by local governments.

• WRF Releases RFPs/RFQ For Four Potable Reuse Projects

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• Fluence Adds Another Aspiral Project In Hunan Province China

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