Newsletter | July 22, 2025

07.22.25 -- Pipe Infrastructure CAPEX To Exceed $117B By 2035; Cultivating The Next Generation Of Water Professionals

IN THIS ISSUE:

The Top 7 Ways The STRAINPRESS Helps With Digester Debris Issues

Pentair Next-Gen Submersible Helps Protect Danville, Indiana

Overcome The Supply Chain Disruptions

Technology That Supports Water Conservation

Is It Time To Upgrade Your Aeration And Mixing Systems?

Zerbe Township WWTP Successfully Manages Non-Dispersible Debris

How To Optimize Flow Measurement For Process Efficiency

Leveraging AMI To Identify And Repair Leaks In North Miami Beach

Duperon Expands Solids Handling Product Line With Washer Compactor Discharge Extension

Pipe Infrastructure CAPEX To Exceed $117B By 2035

Setting The Standard for Effective Chromium-6 Treatment

The Future Is Flowing: Cultivating The Next Generation Of Water Professionals

SPONSOR

 

120Water Enters A Bold New Chapter

Angela Godwin sits down with 120Water founder Megan Glover and incoming CEO Casey Myers at AWWA’s ACE event to discuss a pivotal leadership transition. After nearly a decade of building 120Water from a simple test kit provider to a robust water quality management platform, Glover is stepping into a founder role, handing over the reins to Myers — an experienced entrepreneur with a passion for mission-driven innovation.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Pentair Next-Gen Submersible Helps Protect Danville, Indiana

The County Home Lift Station in Danville, Indiana, plays a crucial role in managing wastewater for a diverse area that includes a regional hospital, a county jail, a landfill, and numerous businesses and residences.

Technology That Supports Water Conservation

While water conservation is a worthwhile practice anywhere and at any time of the year, the need to conserve precious water resources is especially critical in communities affected by drought.

Overcome The Supply Chain Disruptions

The water utility industry is transitioning to wireless smart meters, creating opportunities for small to medium-sized utilities. Cloud-based applications offer automation, data management, and remote access, providing billing solutions, water usage monitoring, and safety tools.

The Top 7 Ways The STRAINPRESS Helps With Digester Debris Issues

Read about the seven ways that the HUBER Sludge Cleaner STRAINPRESS saves money and time while establishing a safer work environment.

Is It Time To Upgrade Your Aeration And Mixing Systems?

Wastewater plants looking to update or replace aeration and mixing equipment should work closely with an established applied engineering company that provides customized solutions for individual needs.

Zerbe Township WWTP Successfully Manages Non-Dispersible Debris Impacting Its Influent Pump Station

The duplex pump station at a Pennsylvania WWTP was upgraded with heavy duty solids-handling pumps, manufactured by Gorman-Rupp Pumps.

How To Optimize Flow Measurement For Process Efficiency

Busy municipal water engineers will find that the new Water and Wastewater Treatment Guide from Fluid Components International explains how to optimize flow measurement in 20 different municipal applications.

Leveraging AMI To Identify And Repair Leaks In North Miami Beach

While North Miami Beach was able to maintain its system and identify leaks, the process was labor-intensive and the city understood that automating meter reading and leak detection could be done simultaneously, saving precious time, staff resources, money — and, most importantly, water.

Duperon Expands Solids Handling Product Line With Washer Compactor Discharge Extension Option

Since the beginning, Duperon has collaborated with customers to provide customized solutions for site-specific applications. Our most recent development to follow in this tradition transports debris up to 40 feet directly from the discharge of the washer compactor. 

Setting The Standard for Effective Chromium-6 Treatment

When California capped chromium-6 in drinking water at 10 ppb in 2014, it became the only state to set a chromium MCL and, in so doing, created a challenge for water providers across the state.  WRT met that challenge with the SMR (Selective Metals Reduction) process.

INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Pipe Infrastructure CAPEX To Exceed US$117B By 2035

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) on pipe infrastructure for municipal water and wastewater utilities in the U.S. and Canada are projected to reach a total of US$117 billion between 2025 and 2035, according to a new report.

Medal Of Honor Recipient, Retired Navy SEAL Ed Byers To Headline NAWC Water Summit

Stantec To Provide Program Management And Engineering Services For Peel Region's Water And Wastewater Infrastructure Program

California Water Service Awards Multi-Million-Dollar Design-Build Contract To Covenant Technical Solutions For Tank Mixing And Dosing Program

Veolia To Equip France's Largest Treated Wastewater Reuse Project In Argelès-Sur-Mer

THE WATER ONLINE SHOW

 

On Location: ACE 2025 Highlights

In this episode of the Water Online Show, 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

FLEXFLO M4 Precisely Doses Tough Gaseous Chemicals

The low shearing pumping action of the FLEXFLO M4 precisely doses even the toughest chemicals, like PAA and sodium hypochlorite, with no vapor lock and no lost prime. Very little maintenance is necessary.

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Blue-White Industries

 

 

TITAN MBR Treatment System

The enhanced TITAN MBR membrane bioreactor treatment system delivers the industry’s best operator experience with the greatest ease of operation and maintenance of any MBR through high-performance flat-sheet membranes, easier component access, and more.

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Smith & Loveless, Inc.

 

 

Forty-X Disc Filter Armor Series

Evoqua’s Forty-X Disc Filter Armor series from the DAVCO line combines outside-in and inside-out filtration technologies within one filtration unit.  

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Xylem Wastewater Solutions

 

 

SITRANS FS290 Portable Clamp-On Flow Meter Test Kit

Using the transmit and receive time difference between two signals, caused by the flow in the pipe slowing the transit time against the flow and accelerating the time with the flow, this transmitter calculates the resulting flow measurement.

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Siemens Process Instrumentation

 

 

RPS/DPS 8000 Series (TERPS)

The RPS/DPS 8000 series incorporate the exciting new TERPS technology. TERPS is a resonant silicon pressure sensor technology platform that provides an order of magnitude greater accuracy and stability than current pressure-measurement technologies.

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Panametrics, a Baker Hughes business

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

 

You'll Know Where Flooding Is A Threat From Your Desk

New smart technology warning systems can give you the edge that you need to know when and where emergencies are developing. 

 

Pumps, Controls, And Pressure Boosting

Goulds Water Technology combines over 155 years of pump experience with the most modern design and manufacturing systems — deep-drawn metal fabrication, laser cutting, laser welding, precision casting, and worldwide design systems — plus a total commitment to quality based on full performance testing of every pump we make.

 

The PEAK-WTS Water Treatment System

Pinnacle’s high efficiency Peak Series ozone generators are now available in process-specific skid configurations for water treatment applications.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

The Future Is Flowing: Cultivating The Next Generation Of Water Professionals

The water sector faces a looming workforce crisis due to an aging demographic and increasing retirements, with about one-third of the workforce eligible to retire in the next decade. This article examines how major water utilities are proactively addressing labor challenges and analyzing strategies for cultivating the next generation of water professionals.

 

Water — Sports & Entertainment's Achilles Heel, Or Secret Weapon Against Climate Change?

The Sports & Entertainment sector is not immune from the impacts of climate change. But it can also lead the way — across communities and society — by taking intentional, practical actions around water that can raise awareness as well as mitigate and adapt to climate change.

 

PRODUCT FOCUS

Multiple Parameters, One Simple Panel - Swan Analytical USA

The Singer In-Line Strainer Available In Additional Sizes - Mueller Water Products

HOMA EffTec Initiative For Enhanced Station Efficiency - HOMA Pump Technology

MEGALUG Series 1100CH Split Restraint Harness For Couplings - EBAA Iron

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