Newsletter | November 6, 2025

11.06.25 -- Advancing Digital Solutions From Pilots To Practice; The Hidden Impact Of AI

IN THIS ISSUE:

Navigating Flow Measurement Choices In Water Treatment

Managing Cold Temperature Swings With MBR Technology

Challenges In Ensuring Long-Term Water Quality (And How To Address Them)

6 Considerations When Preparing For Carbon Media Replacement

Optimizing Pump Systems Through Retrofitting

Preparing Water Infrastructure For The Future

Building Resilient Water Treatment

The Pitfalls Of Cellular AMI

KETOS PRISM: Geographic And Demographic Analysis Of PFAS Data

Study Reveals Hidden Impact Of Artificial Intelligence

Industry-Specific Applications For UV Technology

Advancing Digital Solutions From Pilots To Practice In The Water Sector

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From lab curiosity to scalable reality — ferrate is stepping into the spotlight. At WEFTEC 2025, Rick Bacon of AMS joins host Angela Godwin to reveal how AMS has cracked the code on one of water treatment’s most powerful yet elusive oxidants. By stabilizing ferrate through freezing, AMS enables widespread testing and adoption across industries, from phosphate removal to semiconductor water reuse. Bacon also discusses the company’s Safeguard H₂O platform, which is paving the way for cleaner, more efficient water treatment worldwide.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Managing Cold Temperature Swings With MBR Technology

This article delves into the challenges and adaptive strategies for optimizing MBR systems in cold climates, where efficiency often wanes.

6 Considerations When Preparing For Carbon Media Replacement

This guide can help operators ensure seamless granular activated carbon (GAC) media changeouts, minimizing downtime and maintaining high water quality standards.

Navigating Flow Measurement Choices In Water Treatment: A Guide To Optimal Decision-Making

In today’s economic climate, finding cost-saving opportunities has become crucial for the survival of companies across various sectors, including water and wastewater management. Inefficiencies in processes or measurement equipment can lead to significant resource and revenue losses.

Challenges In Ensuring Long-Term Water Quality (And How To Address Them)

Read about how mixers help prevent stratification, maintain consistent disinfectant distribution, and reduce sediment buildup, thereby mitigating public health risks associated with water storage.

KETOS PRISM: Geographic And Demographic Analysis Of PFAS Data

KETOS PRISM is an environmental intelligence tool that sources, aggregates, and analyzes publicly available environmental data from various sources, including the EPA, USGS, NOAA, and NASA.

Preparing Water Infrastructure For The Future

The current state of the water infrastructure in the U.S. is in need of critical attention. Aging and underfunded systems, increasing demand, and the impacts of climate change are putting immense pressure on the nation’s ability to deliver this essential resource.

Building Resilient Water Treatment: How Ozone Systems Help Utilities Prepare For Extreme Weather

Ozone systems build resilience into water treatment. They ensure utilities remain chemically self-sufficient, allow fast recovery from power outages, and handle rapid water quality shifts.

The Pitfalls Of Cellular AMI

This white paper aims to highlight crucial considerations for utilities contemplating cellular networks as the foundation of their communication systems.

Optimizing Pump Systems Through Retrofitting

For aging pump systems, a full replacement is not always practical or cost-effective. In such cases, retrofitting offers a compelling alternative, breathing new life into existing infrastructure.

Industry-Specific Applications For UV Technology

In microelectronics, Aquafine UV systems provide a synergistic approach towards the reduction of trace organics and microbial contamination for ultrapure water.

INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Study Reveals Hidden Impact Of Artificial Intelligence

Ecolab announced findings from its third annual Ecolab Watermark Study, which reports on water stewardship around the world. This year’s research highlights water’s connection to timely global trends, including new business opportunities from the rapid growth of AI and consumer concern about its impact on vital natural resources.

Bentley Systems Announces Winners Of Its 2025 Partner Excellence Awards

NJIT And NJII Launch PureTrace Labs To Commercialize PFAS Detection Technology

BactoCloud Platform For bNovate's BactoSense Instruments Brings New Understanding Of Water Quality

UTA's Water Engineering Research Center Sets The Standard For Water Research

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

AMI Phosphate II

Colorimetric process analyzer for the automatic and continuous measurement of phosphate.

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Swan Analytical USA

 

 

CAPSULAR Underground Pump Station

Handling large capacities, the CAPSULAR Underground Pump Station combines superior performance with custom design and economic efficiency to provide solutions for customers' large flow applications. When compared to built-in-place, concrete designs, 30% savings can be realized with the S&L factory-built approach.

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Smith & Loveless, Inc.

 

 

HYMAX GRIP Large Diameter (14" - 16")

HYMAX GRIP joins and restrains a wide selection of pipes of different types and diameters, easily and reliably. Due to its patented design, it allows the joining of pipes of the same or different materials and diameters and preventing axial pipe movement.

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Mueller Water Products

 

 

Field Pilot Studies

Pilot tests conducted at numerous facilities demonstrate that Loprest treatment processes successfully reduce iron, manganese, arsenic, nitrate, and many other select contaminants in drinking water to well below the maximum contaminant level (MCL). Loprest can provide self-contained portable, free-standing pilot units or mobile, trailer-mounted units, depending on specific testing needs at each site.

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WRT - Water Remediation Technology

 

 

Sound-Attenuated, Prime-Assisted Solids-Handling Pump

This sound attenuated pump eliminates the need for a waste hose and prevents discharge of pumping effluent onto the ground. 

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Ironclad Environmental Solutions

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

 

Concept-To-Commission: Integrated Solutions For Emerging Contaminants

Dr. Mirka Wilderer from AqueoUS Vets highlights the company's innovative approach to addressing water quality challenges and emerging contaminants.

 

KLa Systems Jet Aeration Systems Brochure

KLa jet aeration technology is applicable across a wide range of wastewater and biosolids treatment applications, including air-activated sludge, SBR, MBR, MBBR, oxidation ditch, aerated stabilization basins, equalization tanks, aerobic digesters, and ATAD.

 

Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator Brochure

The Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC) is a patented treatment system capable of removing over 99% of PFAS from aqueous solutions in a single pass with low contact time. The system’s unique design handles groundwater, surface water, or wastewater from influent sources or operates as a mobile pump-and-treat groundwater remediation process.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMN

Advancing Digital Solutions From Pilots To Practice In The Water Sector

Across the water sector, the same question echoes through utilities and organizations: "We've completed a successful pilot, but now what?" While digital experimentation has become commonplace, the journey from pilot to practice remains challenging.

 

FROM THE EDITOR

When Chemistry Meets Water Innovation

Every so often, science gifts our industry a development so profound that it reshapes how we think about water itself. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Omar M. Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa, and Richard Robson for their pioneering work in developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), represents one such moment.

 

PRODUCT FOCUS

360waterPlus: New Look, New Product, Same Problem - 360water

Aerzen Turbo Blowers - Aerzen

A Sustainable Solution For Wastewater Treatment - Orenco Systems, Inc.

Duperon Dual Auger System - Duperon

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