09.17.26 -- Trust in Water Highlights Wastewater Funding Gap

Join water utility professionals on September 23, 2026, at 10 a.m. ET for a Virtual Water Expo session focused on infrastructure maintenance, fluidics, and chemical maintenance. Explore solutions for asset protection, corrosion control, fluid handling, pipeline repair, water conditioning, and filtration technologies that help extend equipment life, improve reliability, reduce downtime, and support long-term water and wastewater system performance.

Reusing master equipment specifications without evaluating application-specific hydraulics or basin geometries creates costly mechanical conflicts. Auditing legacy requirements ensures every structural and operational component directly supports site-specific treatment goals.

One of the most perplexing challenges that wastewater plant operators face is the need to measure the various sources of influent. For closed-pipe systems, the use of traditional flow devices requires intensive and expensive engineering to keep the pipe full at the point of measurement. The good news is that there is an emerging solution that measures flow in a less-than-full pipe.

Wastewater process intensification has long centered on a single instinct: hold more biomass in the same tank. Whether the technology is integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS), a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR), or something else, the working assumption is that more retained biomass means more treatment capacity.

Increasing water scarcity, which results in higher water costs, is pushing manufacturers to reclaim and reuse their wastewater. 

Discover how you can enhance cooling skid efficiency, reduce energy usage, and ensure sustainability with liquid analysis. 

A new system removed all nine PFAS compounds from a municipality's water to non-detect levels in a single pass. Unlike traditional methods, it addresses both long- and short-chain PFAS while generating minimal waste.

Modern biosolids management requires sophisticated biological treatment to achieve Class A pathogen reduction and efficient solids destruction. Explore how integrated aerobic digestion and nutrient management technologies provide reliable, cost-effective paths toward regulatory compliance.

Discover how utility operators resolved a critical emergency main leak in just one day, using under-pressure valve insertion to isolate the break without draining the regional reservoir or interrupting water service to the community.

Discover how a municipal wastewater treatment plant reduced its overall sludge management expenses by one-third and improved daily operational efficiency by implementing an advanced thickening system to streamline solids management and reduce hauling logistics.

Understanding the distinct boundaries between theoretical detection, laboratory capabilities, and reliable quantification ensures defensible water-quality reporting. Master these analytical metrics to select appropriate methods and avoid overstating data certainty in compliance reporting.

In this video, see how significant water loss lead to new technologies that put the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on the cutting edge of service.

Through ASTERRA, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has launched LeakTracer — a first-of-its-kind grant funding program that deploys AI and advanced satellite technology to reduce water loss and strengthen long-term water resilience for rural water utilities statewide.

Precise ammonium monitoring is essential for optimizing aeration and ensuring regulatory compliance. Advanced gas-sensitive measurement techniques provide interference-free data and high stability, allowing operators to define narrower process thresholds while significantly reducing long-term maintenance requirements and operational costs.