Newsletter | May 14, 2026

05.14.26 -- Breakthrough Technology Detects PFAS At Trace Levels; Is Brine Valorization The Future Of Desalination?

IN THIS ISSUE:

A Dynamic Trio Helps Tackle The Challenge Of Non-Revenue Water

Success Roadmap For Advanced Metering Infrastructure Installations

An Economical Approach To The LT2 Rule

Leak Detection Program For Roswell, NM

Performance Test Services For UV Advanced Oxidation Systems

Hot Springs Combats Aging Infrastructure Challenges With Xylem Digital Solutions

Increased Quality, Less Stratification, Ice Prevention: The Benefits Of Water Mixing

Sealing And Bearing Innovations In Flood Control Pumps

Bearing And Frictional Resistance: The Building Blocks Of A Restrained System

Breakthrough Technology Detects PFAS Faster, Cheaper, And At Trace Levels, On-Site

Smarter Pipeline Condition Assessment

Brine Valorization — The Future Of Desalination

SPONSOR

NXT|MBR™: The Permanent Concrete Modular Wastewater System

Integrated Water Services and CROM have partnered to launch NXT|MBR™, a high-performance water reclamation system that introduces a new category of wastewater infrastructure: the Permanent Concrete Modular system. By combining the rapid commissioning of modular design with the 50-plus-year durability of ACI-350 compliant concrete construction, it provides a municipal-grade foundation that integrates seamlessly into long-term master plans for municipalities, developers and utility owners. Explore NXT|MBR™

FEATURED ARTICLES

Success Roadmap For Advanced Metering Infrastructure Installations

For a water utility of any size to function properly, effective meter reading is a vital aspect of day-to-day operations. Meter reading supports both ends of the transaction, ensuring that water is being properly delivered, accounted for, and billed each month.

Leak Detection Program For Roswell, NM

Harnessing satellite intelligence allows utilities to pinpoint hidden underground leaks with precision. By focusing field crews on high-probability clusters, municipalities can drastically reduce water loss, optimize repair budgets, and prioritize critical infrastructure replacement projects.

A Dynamic Trio Helps Tackle The Challenge Of Non-Revenue Water

Non-revenue water is a global problem: Around 30% of drinking water is lost on its way to the consumer. But this decades-old problem can now be solved: By applying proven, easy-to-use digital solutions, utilities can now make the best use of data they already have from sensors and from hydraulic models to learn more about how much water they are losing and why.

Sealing And Bearing Innovations In Flood Control Pumps

Flood control pumps must perform reliably after long periods of inactivity. Specialized sealing and bearing innovations, like permanently lubricated bearings and double mechanical seals, are critical to ensuring dependable startup and sustained performance in harsh environments.

Performance Test Services For UV Advanced Oxidation Systems

UV AOP performance verification requires a robust test matrix covering design, operating, and control conditions. This process includes on-site execution, sample analysis, and troubleshooting to achieve successful regulatory approval.

Hot Springs Combats Aging Infrastructure Challenges With Xylem Digital Solutions

The City of Hot Springs, Arkansas knows the challenges of dealing with aging infrastructure well. The city’s 143-year-old system covers 923 miles of water mains in rocky terrain, making it difficult to detect leaks. That is why the utility’s water department decided to act. 

Increased Quality, Less Stratification, Ice Prevention: The Benefits Of Water Mixing

Specializing in water infrastructure maintenance and asset management, USI conducts water storage tank inspections, cleaning, mixing, repairs, renovations, and maintenance. But in order for USI to maintain and fix tanks, they have to understand the problem.

An Economical Approach To The LT2 Rule

Water Online spoke with Alfredo Rizo-Patron and Cyndi Benson of Harmsco Filtration Products about the factors that create the most problems for these communities as well as cost-effective options for achieving and maintaining compliance.

Bearing And Frictional Resistance: The Building Blocks Of A Restrained System

This bulletin discusses some of the specific applications of the design of a properly restrained pipeline.

Smarter Pipeline Condition Assessment Starts With The Right Technology

Advanced pipeline assessment technologies help utilities detect defects, locate leaks, and prioritize repairs — enabling smarter capital planning, reduced failures, and more resilient water infrastructure management.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Breakthrough Technology Detects PFAS Faster, Cheaper, And At Trace Levels, On-Site

In an ideal world, PFAS chemicals would not exist. A second-best option would be to detect and treat PFAS before it could ever contaminate water. Researchers have created a device that can detect PFAS in samples on-site quickly and efficiently. 

Digital Twin Innovation Cuts Energy Costs In Water Purification

AERZEN Delta Hybrid: New Sizes D11S And D16S

Rain Barrels And Other Household Stormwater Strategies Are Working — For Now

Peoria And Phoenix Water Projects Named Arizona's Best

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

AquaKnight: Water Treatment Equipment Brochure

Calgon Carbon’s liquid-phase equipment systems provide utilities with compact, flexible, and cost-effective means to apply both granular activated carbon (GAC) and ion exchange (IX) technologies to treat even the most difficult water treatment challenges.

PFAS Solutions For Small Sites

In this brochure, get more information about Sentinel's PFAS Solutions.

XMTCpro Brochure

The new XMTCpro is a compact, rugged, online thermal conductivity transmitter that measures the concentration of binary gas mixtures, including hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, helium, and many others.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

Brine Valorization — The Future Of Desalination

Brine valorization plants are the next step in the evolution of desalination technology which opens a new horizon for wider use of desalination as a baseline source of drought-proof and environmentally and fiscally sustainable water supply. Over the past decade, the desalination industry has developed a number of brine concentration and mineral extraction technologies which enable the generation of commercially valuable products from brine.

Why Energy Efficiency Is The Quietest Form Of Risk Management

For the better part of a decade, industrial electricity prices behaved like a slowly shifting floor. From 2016 through 2020, wholesale prices in most major markets were remarkably stable. A plant built in 2018 could reasonably expect its electricity costs to drift, not lurch, through the early 2020s. That baseline is gone.

PRODUCT FOCUS

I-SERIES Immersible Wastewater Pump - Smith & Loveless, Inc.

AMI Phosphate II - Swan Analytical USA

EcoSorb Activated Carbons for Air Treatment - Jacobi Carbons Inc.

PillAerator Turbo Blowers - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.

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