Newsletter | February 13, 2025

02.13.25 -- Lead And Copper Rules: Where Are We Now?; Super Sponge Soaks Up Pollutants, Saves Minerals

IN THIS ISSUE:

How To Optimize Your DAF System With The Right Air Dissolving Pump

Essential Preventive Maintenance For Aeration Blowers

Top 5 Things A Utility Should Look For When Choosing An AMI Network

How Integrated Resource Management Can Solve the Global Scarcity Crisis

How Ozone Treatment Tackles Pharmaceutical Residues In Wastewater

ABB Completes Acquisition Of Smart Water Technology Company Real Tech

Modern Clog-Free Wastewater Pumping Solution

Complete Flow Solutions

Broad Portfolio, Engineering Expertise Ensure Success Of Dual Systems Bypass Project

This Sponge Soaks Up Pollutants But Saves Valuable Minerals

How To Prepare For High Flow Rates In MBR Wastewater Systems

Lead And Copper Rules: Where Are We Now?

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Rethinking Water: How Integrated Resource Management Can Solve the Global Scarcity Crisis

In this article, discover how integrated resource management can reduce overall water demand by tailoring water use to its most appropriate application, thereby helping regions optimize their water portfolios.

How Ozone Treatment Tackles Pharmaceutical Residues In Wastewater

In this blog, we explore how ozone technology helps reduce pharmaceutical residues in wastewater, ensuring safer water for both the environment and communities.

Complete Flow Solutions

Siemens’ extensive portfolio includes various flow measurement technologies, such as Coriolis, clamp-on ultrasonic, vortex, and differential pressure meters, catering to a wide range of industrial needs.

ABB Completes Acquisition Of Smart Water Technology Company Real Tech

Following the completion of the acquisition of Canadian company Real Tech by ABB, hear from Jean-René Roy, Global Business Line Manager, ABB Measurement & Analytics, and Jodi Glover, CEO and co-founder of Real Tech.

How To Optimize Your DAF System With The Right Air Dissolving Pump

Taking a deep dive into what to look for in your DAF system to bring its performance and efficiency to the next level.

Modern Clog-Free Wastewater Pumping Solution

Wastewater utilities need a modern solids-handling pumping solution. They need pumps that can automatically dislodge clogs, self-clean, and temporarily adjust inlet openings to accommodate larger or more difficult debris.

Essential Preventive Maintenance For Aeration Blowers

Aeration blowers are vital for many wastewater treatment operations. Whether these blowers run around the clock or sporadically, one unifying truth holds: proactive preventative maintenance is non-negotiable.

Broad Portfolio, Engineering Expertise Ensure Success Of Dual Systems Bypass Project

There’s no good time to interrupt production at a manufacturing facility. For a worldwide leader in audio equipment, halting production for a facility maintenance project leading up to the busy holiday season was not an option.

Top 5 Things A Utility Should Look For When Choosing An AMI Network

This guide will help you evaluate the top considerations when trying to select the right advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network.

How To Prepare For High Flow Rates In MBR Wastewater Systems

Whether it’s a major storm or fast-paced snowmelt or a sudden industrial discharge in your service area, a methodical understanding of influent flow rate is key to staying ahead of influent.

INDUSTRY NEWS

This Sponge Soaks Up Pollutants But Saves Valuable Minerals

Northwestern researchers have developed a specialized sponge that slurps up pollutants, offering a reusable and cost-effective solution to water contamination.

How Climate Extremes Fuel Droughts And Heavy Rains

Meta Joins Collaborative Effort Leveraging AI To Drive Solutions For Water Scarcity In Colorado River Basin

NYC DEP Environmental Tech Lab Update: 6 Companies Selected

De Nora Signs Two Collaboration Contracts With Saudi Water Authority And ACWA Power

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

STAR ONE S&L Non-Clog Pump

The new S&L STAR ONE Non-Clog Pump raises the bar on pump efficiency — anywhere from 3-5% higher than previous S&L pumps — paving the way for significant energy cost savings.

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Smith & Loveless, Inc.

Vorelodos

 Vorelodos aerobic digester combines equipment, controls, and service, to offer a solution that ensures wastewater treatment plants meet regulations while reducing operational costs.

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Sanitaire -- A Xylem Brand

WEDECO DURON UV System

Xylem’s WEDECO brand has developed a new open channel ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system that delivers clean, safe treated wastewater of the highest standard using a minimum of energy. The WEDECO Duron UV system eliminates the need for chemical based disinfection as well as delivering lower operating and maintenance costs.

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WEDECO — A Xylem Brand

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Pipeline Condition Assessment And Leak Detection Services

Together with Electro Scan, M.E. Simpson offers four innovative professional services. 

Design Generator Platform Advantages

Design Generator (DG) is a web-based, online water facility design engineering platform that enables engineering professionals to rapidly generate preliminary engineering designs for CAS facilities as well as MBR, MBBR, and others.

Datasheet: Ultrameter II 6PFCᴱ & 4P

Both Ultrameter II models deliver performance of ±1% of reading (not merely full scale). This high level of accuracy has been achieved through advanced four-electrode conductivity cell technology, a unique pH/ORP sensor and powerful microprocessor-based circuitry. With displayed values of up to 9999, the full four-digit LCD ensures resolution levels never before possible in such affordable instruments. Factory calibrated with NIST traceable solutions, each Ultrameter II may be supplied with both certification of traceability and NIST traceable solutions for definitive calibration.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

Lead And Copper Rules: Where Are We Now?

It’s been several months since the U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) went into effect on Oct. 16, 2024. However, just days prior, on Oct. 8, the EPA approved yet another update, the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI). While water utilities knew this was coming, it still introduces a realm of confusion and uncertainty.

How Can AI Be Used To Ethically Provide Clean Drinking Water?

Due to the fast implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the water industry, there are unknowns which create challenges in establishing protocols.

PRODUCT FOCUS

Battery Powered Dura Mag Flow Meter - McCrometer, Inc.

TransPort PT900 - Panametrics, a Baker Hughes business

Digester Gas Flow Meter Model ST51 - Fluid Components International

Submersible Recirculation Pumps Type ABS XRCP - Sulzer Pumps Solutions Inc.

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