Newsletter | March 7, 2024

03.07.24 -- Report Touts Potential Of Urban Stormwater Capture; What's The Hype Around AI For Flood Mitigation?

IN THIS ISSUE:

Water Quality: Why Analytical Thinking Has Never Been More Important

Flow Meter Enhances Chlorination System Performance For Municipal Water Department

Metropolitan Sewer District Of Greater Cincinnati

Quick Pipe Repair Saves Thousands Of Dollars

The Iron Bowl And Your Water Pipe – Neither Ever Disappoints

Energy-Efficient Blowers Help Clean Riachuelo River

Treatment Plant Turns To De Nora SORB 33A For Arsenic Removal

Pile Cloth Media Filtration Effectively Removes COD And TSS From Oil Refinery Wastewater

4 Ways To Unlock The Hidden Potential Of Water Utilities

Report Finds Substantial Opportunity For Stormwater Capture To Enhance Water Resilience

Dosing Of Sodium Hypochlorite Solution For Drinking Water Disinfection

There’s Hype Around Machine Learning And AI For Flood Mitigation — What’s Really Involved?

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Flow Meter Enhances Chlorination System Performance For Municipal Water Department

The water municipality at a midsize city in the Western region of the U.S. serving a population of about 180,000 people needed to address a chlorine disinfection system problem at one of its water treatment plants.

Quick And Easy Pipe Repair In Virginia Saves Thousands Of Dollars

Learn how JCSA efficiently replaced 10 dresser-style couplings on a 16" steel pipe spanning a 600-foot bridge using the versatile Hymax Versa coupling, enabling a quick and cost-effective repair without removing the pipe.

Water Quality: Why Analytical Thinking Has Never Been More Important

In an era of increased scrutiny for delivering efficient and sustainable industrial practices, the maxim “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” is well known to anyone, particularly those whose daily role revolves around monitoring and improving water quality.

Metropolitan Sewer District Of Greater Cincinnati

The Lower Mill Creek Partial Remedy (LMCPR) in Hamilton County, Ohio, is a large, complex effort to remove about 1.78 billion gallons of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) annually from the Mill Creek, an Ohio River tributary. When complete, LMCPR will improve water quality and serve as a catalyst to improve local neighborhoods.

The Iron Bowl And Your Water Pipe – Neither Ever Disappoints

The primary reason the Iron Bowl is so appropriately named is that it’s a tough game, played by tough men, fighting with toughness and resilience for their teams and universities, and their fans care perhaps even more. Tough, hard-hitting, durable, resilient. All describe both the players in the Iron Bowl and the performance of ductile iron pipe.

Energy-Efficient Blowers Help Clean Riachuelo River

Cleaning tannery effluent is an energy-intense process. The Curtidor Industrial Park (PIC) has found a way to keep energy usage and costs down while reducing pollution in the Riachuelo River.

Treatment Plant Turns To De Nora SORB 33A For Arsenic Removal

A small treatment plant was looking for the most economical solution to treat water and needed a product with a longer life expectancy. Learn why they turned to De Nora's SORB 33A media. 

Pile Cloth Media Filtration Effectively Removes COD And TSS From Oil Refinery Wastewater

This application profile focuses on two test sites with different treatment requirements and describes how Aqua-Aerobic Systems’ OptiFiber pile cloth media filtration was used at both sites to address the removal of harmful constituents from refinery wastewater.

4 Ways To Unlock The Hidden Potential Of Water Utilities

Learn how water utilities can reach their full potential by becoming more resilient, transparent, efficient, and sustainable.

Dosing Of Sodium Hypochlorite Solution For Drinking Water Disinfection

A water purveyor was in urgent need of a chemically resistant flow instrumentation with a long life of service that allowed reliable and long-term stable dosing of the sodium hypochlorite solution.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Report Finds Substantial Opportunity For Urban Stormwater Capture To Enhance Water Resilience

The Pacific Institute, a U.S.-based global water think tank, released a new national assessment finding substantial opportunities for expanded stormwater capture and use approaches to improve water resilience in urban areas across the United States.

Want Fewer Microplastics In Your Tap Water? Try Boiling It First

EPA Announces Over $1B To Start New Cleanup Projects And Continue Work At 100 Superfund Sites Across The Country

Study Finds Drought Fuels Invasive Species After Wildfires

Streams Connected To Groundwater Show Improved Detoxification And Microbial Diversity

EPA Launches New Office To Strengthen Engagement With Agricultural And Rural Communities

FDA, Industry Actions End Sales Of PFAS Used In U.S. Food Packaging

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Integrinex Advanced Control Systems Brochure

A simple, effective solution for dealing with today’s “new sewage,” Integrinex advanced controls with FloSmart technology features an integrated architecture that recognizes when a pump is clogging.

OMNI Verification (V²) Portable Test Meter Datasheet

Mechanical water meters gradually wear down and lose accuracy, preventing you from realizing full revenue potential. Typically, large meters in commercial and industrial services often represent 40 to 60 percent of your revenue, so maintaining their performance is crucial to your operations.

Sigma Control 2 Brochure

Kaeser Compressors has revolutionized compressed air controls with the sigma Control2.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

There’s Hype Around Machine Learning And AI For Flood Mitigation — What’s Really Involved If A City Or County Wants To Dive In?

With extreme weather events appearing to occur with greater frequency, state and local governments are scrambling to prepare for the possibilities. Properly scaled preparation can save lives — and getting a sense of that scale is where AI is helping.

River Pollution Is Causing Harmful Outbreaks Of Sewage Fungus In The UK

The pollution of the UK’s waterways and coastlines with sewage is throwing its ecosystems out of balance. One well documented example is the spread of microscopic bacteria that can multiply rapidly into algal blooms, causing extensive dead zones. But there’s another pollution problem that has been largely overlooked, until now.

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