Newsletter | July 3, 2025

07.03.25 -- PFAS Found in 98% Of Tested U.S. Waterways; How To Scale Smart Water Technologies

IN THIS ISSUE:

Depths Of Druck's Experience Prevents Leaks For Water Authorities

Enhancing Leak Detection With Remote Pressure Monitoring

Predictive AI Is Helping Utilities Mitigate Costly Pipe Failure

How Ultrasonic Sensor Technology Can Increase Processing Plant Efficiency

UV Water Treatment Plants For Microorganism Prevention

New Standard With Customer Request Sampling To Support Lead Service Line Replacement

Optimal Baseplate Grouting For Vertical Dry Pit Submersible Pumps

Eclipse Gear Pumps For Chemical Dosing: Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility

BlueConduit And Water Main Predictions: An Interview With BlueConduit CEO, Lorne Groe

New Analysis Finds PFAS In 98% Of Tested U.S. Waterways

Monitoring IWW Effluents With FP 360 sc Oil-In-Water Sensor

SWAN Corner: Scaling Smart Water — How Utilities Can Grow Quickly And Confidently

SPONSOR

From Installation To Impact: A Customer-First Approach

In this episode of the Water Online Show, Angela Godwin sits down with Amy Newman, Head of Customer Services for North America at Kamstrup, during AWWA’s ACE event in Denver. Watch the full episode to learn how the Kamstrup team supports customers throughout the entire product lifecycle, emphasizing strong relationships and project outcomes that earn referrals — not just checked boxes.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Enhancing Leak Detection With Remote Pressure Monitoring

Remote pressure monitoring is increasingly being implemented by progressive water utilities, both large and small, to get better visibility into their distribution systems. This results in lower operating costs and reduced stress on their aging pipe networks.

How Ultrasonic Sensor Technology Can Increase Processing Plant Efficiency

In today’s competitive business environment, which focuses on increased throughput, economies of scale, and a healthy bottom line, accurate and reliable measurement is a key component. Monitoring production processes by installing a wide range of sensors including flow, level, temperature, and pressure is common and crucial to be competitive.

Depths Of Druck's Experience Prevents Leaks For Water Authorities

Druck’s Customer is a manufacturer of data logging equipment, used in the monitoring of water distribution systems. As with many of Druck’s Customers, they install sensors into the component or assembly that they in turn supply to their customer.

Predictive AI Is Helping Utilities Mitigate Costly Pipe Failure

Identifying which pipes need replacement or repair is challenging because of a lack of complete information. Predictive AI can fill these gaps and provide desperately needed insights.

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.

Pittsburgh Water Sets New Standard With Customer Request Sampling To Support Lead Service Line Replacement

Discover how 120Water helped Pittsburgh Water reduce their turnaround times, streamline sampling workflows, and save hours of work. Learn how you can also use sampling to support your replacement and community engagement programs with their case study.

Optimal Baseplate Grouting For Vertical Dry Pit Submersible Pumps

As municipalities increasingly switch to vertical dry pit submersible pumps to address flooding concerns, one critical yet often overlooked installation detail can make or break system performance: baseplate grouting.

Eclipse Gear Pumps For Chemical Dosing: Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility

Read about the Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, which is home to several Eclipse Pumps providing chemical dosing to municipal wastewater.

BlueConduit And Water Main Predictions: An Interview With BlueConduit CEO Lorne Groe

Learn about a new product that can help to identify and manage water mains at risk of failure using locally tailored, AI-driven predictive modeling, and BlueConduit’s push beyond lead service lines.

Monitoring IWW Effluents With FP 360 sc Oil-In-Water Sensor

This application note explores a test which demonstrated significant improvements in oil-in-water monitoring of industrial wastewater in comparison to the weekly grab sample analysis method.

INDUSTRY NEWS

New Analysis Finds PFAS In 98% Of Tested U.S. Waterways

A new report reveals that toxic PFAS have contaminated 98% of tested U.S. waters, with elevated levels found at 95% of sampled sites downstream from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and 80% downstream from biosolids land application sites.

EPA Will Revise Wastewater Rules To Support Electric Energy Reliability

WIPPES Act Mandating 'Do Not Flush' Labeling Passes Through U.S. House

Gut Microbes Could Protect Us From Toxic 'Forever Chemicals'

Brown and Caldwell Acquires Membrane Technology Consulting Firm SPI To Advance Its Water And Wastewater Treatment Solutions

THE WATER ONLINE SHOW

On Location: ACE 2025 Highlights

In this episode of Water Talk, recorded on location at AWWA ACE in Denver, co-hosts Travis Kennedy and Angela Godwin recap two energetic days of interviews and insights from water industry leaders. From data integration to AI and frozen reagents, the duo explores the cutting edge of water and wastewater innovation. Tune in for a dive into the growing role of AI in the evolving landscape of water technology.

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Datasheet: Finescreen Monster

The Monster Separation System is a complete, high-performance system that provides high capture rate of wastewater solids and more efficient washing and compacting, resulting in a discharge that is remarkably clean and ready for disposal.

Replacing Calcium Nitrate With SulFeLox

Faced with increasing costs for controlling hydrogen sulfide in its wastewater collection system, the City of Bakersfield, California, commissioned an evaluation of its program in 2019.

AOS Advanced Oxidation System

BioLargo’s Advanced Oxidation System (AOS) offers high-performance water treatment for the decontamination and disinfection of water and wastewater.

SWAN CORNER

Scaling Smart Water — How Utilities Can Grow Quickly And Confidently With Digital Technologies

Challenges associated with deploying smart water technologies include “Where do I begin?” and “Who do I use?”. These questions can often be barriers to small and mid-sized utilities that have limited resources available to them and are already burdened with competing daily priorities.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMN

What It Will Really Take To Replace America's Lead Lines

Replacing lead pipes isn’t just about digging and swapping materials. It’s about solving for workforce shortages, incomplete data, and execution at scale. Without addressing these constraints head-on, communities risk failing to meet compliance deadlines and incurring rising costs.

PRODUCT FOCUS

OpenFlows FLOOD - Bentley Systems

Dissolved Oxygen Sensing Systems - ABB Measurement & Analytics

Xylem Vue Plant Real-Time Decision Support - Xylem Vue

SL-DOG | Sewer Line Data OrGanizer - InfoSense, Inc.

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