Newsletter | January 15, 2026

01.15.26 -- The New Cyber Risk Challenging America's Water; How Air Bubbles Remove Water Contaminants

IN THIS ISSUE:

Aerzen's Hybrid Screw Blowers: Shaping The Future Of Sustainable Wastewater Management

UV Water Treatment Plants For Microorganism Prevention

Does Lead Have To Exist For Predictive Modeling To Work?

Secure And Simple: The Future Of Pipe Repair With RazorLock

Enhancing Wastewater Treatment With Efficient Blower Systems

16 Years Of The Octave: A Legacy Of Leadership In Ultrasonic Water Measurement

Eastside Utility District Takes Cellular AMI Path To A Modernized Network

The Case For Using Wastewater Pumps In Industrial Settings

Meet The Policy Experts Guiding BlueConduit's EPA And State Compliance Process

Using Air Bubbles To Remove Water Contaminants

Custom Tank Designs That Actively Manage PFAS Mass Transfer Zone (MTZ)

The New Cyber Risk Challenging America's Water: Modernization Itself

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Future-Proofing Water Utilities: Cybersecurity And Smart Control With Xylem's MultiSmart

This episode of the Water Online Show dives into one of the industry’s most urgent topics: cybersecurity in water and wastewater operations. Host Travis Kennedy interviews Spencer Mack of Xylem’s Flygt Americas to explore how cyber risks — from pump stations to SCADA systems — are evolving with digital transformation.

FEATURED ARTICLES

UV Water Treatment Plants For Microorganism Prevention

Recognizing the urgent need to ensure safe drinking water, the Queenstown Lakes District Council in New Zealand partnered with FILTEC to implement advanced UV water treatment solutions across key plants.

Secure And Simple: The Future Of Pipe Repair With RazorLock

Innovations in seal-and-restrain technologies integrate both sealing and restraining functions into a single product, making them more efficient and easier to install.

Aerzen's Hybrid Screw Blowers: Shaping The Future Of Sustainable Wastewater Management

Read how Aerzen’s next-generation hybrid screw blower redefines what it means to merge performance with sustainability in wastewater aeration systems.

Does Lead Have To Exist For Predictive Modeling To Work?

Using predictive modeling as it relates to identifying the likelihood of lead service lines can feel like a daunting task. Does your water system have to have known lead for predictive modeling to be effective?

Enhancing Wastewater Treatment With Efficient Blower Systems

Welcome to a world where innovation meets a tradition of superior quality — where KAESER delivers products and an experience that raises the bar for what you expect from blower solutions.

16 Years Of The Octave: A Legacy Of Leadership In Ultrasonic Water Measurement

The Octave Ultrasonic Meter is celebrating 16 years of trusted service, and it’s more than a product milestone. It’s a recognition of the thousands of utilities that have embraced smart water management and chosen a path of long-term value.

Eastside Utility District Takes Cellular AMI Path To A Modernized Network

Having deployed cellular-based AMI with ultrasonic meters, EUD can more accurately monitor water consumption, see near-real-time leak alerts, and operate with greater efficiency and safely.

The Case For Using Wastewater Pumps In Industrial Settings

Learn how today’s modern wastewater pumps have the capacity to serve efficiently and economically in a variety of industrial applications without the high cost of specialty pumps.

Meet The Policy Experts Guiding BlueConduit's EPA And State Compliance Process

BlueConduit has a team of national and state policy experts leading our ongoing regulator engagement, internal compliance processes, and technology design to ensure EPA and state-compliant service line inventories.

Custom Tank Designs That Actively Manage PFAS Mass Transfer Zone (MTZ) — And Why It Matters More Than Ever

As utilities prepare for the pending 4-ppt PFAS drinking water MCL, many are discovering that legacy lead/lag designs — workhorses for decades when treating contaminants in the ppm and ppb range — simply are not optimized for the parts per trillion-level (ppt) precision PFAS demands.

INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Using Air Bubbles To Remove Water Contaminants

Engineers are using air bubbles to create foam that captures contaminants and allows them to be easily filtered from water. Unlike existing foam-based treatments, this approach can remove both PFAS and microplastics, and it doesn’t require toxic chemicals.

AMWA Applauds Introduction Of The Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Resilience And Sustainability Act Of 2026

Symbiotic Bacteria Help Clean Wastewater

National Ground Water Association Highlights Groundwater's Role In Meeting Data Center Growth

Water Resilience Coalition And Water Futures Community Join Forces To Accelerate Business Action For Global Water Resilience

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

Solids Handling Pump

This quick self-priming pump eliminates the need for a waste hose and the need to fill up the pump housing with water to obtain prime. 

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Ironclad Environmental Solutions

 

 

Xylem Vue Wastewater Applications

A single platform — built by utilities for utilities — to capture all your data and optimize management of wastewater networks and treatment plants.

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Xylem Vue

 

 

Aqua ElectrOzone Ozone Generation System

Ozone treatment for water and wastewater has been utilized successfully for several decades and continues to be a viable disinfection solution for both municipal and industrial plants, worldwide.

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Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.

 

 

Lagoon Commander Mixer

The Reliant Lagoon Commander Pond/Lagoon Mixer continuously, and slowly, moves water along the bottom of a lagoon/pond, continually mixing the entire water column using a minimum of energy.

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RELIANT Water Technologies

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

 

SIWA Meter Data Management Datasheet

A scalable, secure, and vendor-independent solution designed to optimize water utilities' meter-to-cash processes and detect non-revenue water loss. It enhances billing accuracy, detects leaks as small as 1 liter per hour, and supports customer engagement through advanced analytics and real-time alerts.

 

Brochure: WRT Portable Exchange Systems (PES) For Radium And Uranium Removal

WRT's processes are an effective and environmentally responsible choice you can make for removing radium and uranium from drinking water and the community.

 

OPTISONIC 6300 P Brochure

Learn about KROHNE's ultrasonic clamp-on flow meter for temporary flow measurement of liquids.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

The New Cyber Risk Challenging America's Water: Modernization Itself

The integration of IT and OT systems has unlocked significant benefits — from enhanced operational visibility to smarter decision-making — and reflects years of hard work and commitment to innovation. This progress is a foundation for the next phase: strengthening defenses in a rapidly changing threat landscape.

 

Building Your Water-Positive Data Center Roadmap: A Step-By-Step Implementation Guide

The data center industry stands at a critical juncture. As facilities scale to meet exponential computing demands, water consumption has emerged as a defining operational challenge. Traditional approaches focused on water efficiency are no longer sufficient.

 

PRODUCT FOCUS

LeakFX - Fluid Conservation Systems Inc.

UNIK5000 Series Pressure Sensing Platform - Panametrics, a Baker Hughes business

It's Time To Refresh Your CSE Safety Knowledge - IDEX Intelligent Water

Filtration: EBS Series - Amiad Water Systems

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