Newsletter | January 13, 2025

01.13.25 -- Revolutionary Filtration Membrane For Water Purification

IN THIS ISSUE:

Source & Drinking Water Treatment

Distribution & Collection Systems

Wastewater Treatment

Industry News

Utility Management

Technology Showcase

SOURCE & DRINKING WATER TREATMENT

Climate Change And Nutrients: Forewarned Is Forearmed

Rising temperatures and precipitation combined with increasing nutrient runoff from human activity are elevating challenges in water treatment efforts. In some cases, that means increased threats to drinking water quality. In others, it means increasingly stringent nutrient discharge levels. Either way, taking the nutrient monitoring battle out to the field can help in waging a better fight at the treatment plant.

Treating Trace Contaminants In Drinking Water

Many waterways contain environmental contaminants resulting from agricultural runoff or industrial/municipal wastewater discharge. Possible environmental contaminants include nitrosamines, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, or other environmental contaminants. 

Cooling Tower And Process Water Treatment

The unique properties of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) make it a good technology for keeping cooling loops, process water loops, and heat exchangers clean from fouling that can occur due to various contaminants in the water.

Panel-Mounted Solutions For Streamlined Water Quality Monitoring

In this episode of The Water Online Show: On Location, our guest is Mike Blackburn from Hach. Mike dives into the benefits of panel-mounted solutions for water quality monitoring.

DISTRIBUTION & COLLECTION SYSTEMS

It Takes Two To Tango: Effective Water Loss Management

Reducing non-revenue water (NRW) and managing water loss is a critical challenge in water utilities. However, it’s important to understand that there’s no magic solution to this problem.

Lift Stations: Attacking The 'New Sewage' With Vaughan Chopper Pumps

Disposable, throw-away products are making raw sewage pumping tougher than ever. The Jefferson Street Pump Station at the City of Centralia, WA had a problem that demanded a cost-effective solution.

Consider Your Collection System To Be An Extension Of Your Treatment Process

Wastewater utilities that want to take their operations to the next level need to manage their collections system and treatment processes as two parts of a single, holistic entity.

Pressure Data Is Critical To Predicting Distribution Systems Issues

Monitoring pressure at strategic points can provide valuable insight about potential leaks. However, this isn’t as easy as it sounds. The good news is that technology is available to gather pressure data that can be used to enhance service and improve asset management without a large capital investment by utilities.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Biological Nutrient Removal With Advanced Primary Treatment

Learn how advanced primary treatment can increase settled solids without the use of chemical additions, reducing capital and operating costs and ensuring more consistent effluent.

Rightsizing Blower Installations For Optimum Performance

In regulated wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) environments, which require 100% blower system redundancy to satisfy the most extreme operating conditions, it can be easier to meet demanding physical thresholds than it is to refine energy performance to the ideal minimum. Here are some guidelines for covering all the bases — estimating the potential payback of balancing blower type, size, and turndown capacity while making the evaluation exercise worth the effort.

Enhancing Treatment Capacity With miGRATE Technology At Verrado WRF

Due to rapid population growth in its service area, Verrado Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) in Verrado, AZ faced a challenge. Its existing treatment capacity of 1.54 MGD had become insufficient to meet the rising demand and comply with both total suspended solids (TSS) and total nitrogen (TN) permits.

How To Extend The Life Of Your Wastewater Pumps

Wastewater treatment plants use numerous pumps in a variety of types and sizes to move water through the process. Depending on plant configuration, they may pump influent, activated sludge, thickened or digested sludge, biosolids, scum, filtrate, effluent, or reuse water. Each matrix has specific characteristics that engineers consider when designing pumping systems.

UTILITY MANAGEMENT

Navigating Troubled Waters: 5 Challenges To Water Utility Profitability

Water utilities are the unsung heroes of modern society, providing us with the lifeline of clean and safe water. However, they face a barrage of challenges that threaten their efficiency, profitability, and, by extension, the sustainability of this vital service.

Guide To Reliable Water Quality Data With Semiconductor-Based Turbidity Sensors

Read more about why it's time for the water industry to start prioritizing drinking water safety.

Achieving Success: Leveraging The Manufacturer's Experience

What is the typical design life of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in North America? This is an important question to consider. Perhaps the better question to consider is: What is important to the operators and beneficiaries of a WWTP facility?

Leveling Up AMI Operations

To take AMI to the next level, water utilities need a solution that allows users to build their own reports and analyses using business intelligence tools.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Silk-Based, Ultra-Fast Membranes Touted As 'Revolutionary'

A research team has developed a novel nanofiltration membrane using natural silk, which could revolutionize the process of water purification or treatment. While allowing beneficial minerals to pass through, this membrane rejects over 99% of organic pollutants in water, e.g., the notorious perfluorinated compounds.

New Filter Captures And Recycles Aluminum From Manufacturing Waste

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $700M To Deliver Clean Drinking Water And Sanitation Infrastructure On Tribal Lands Through Investing in America Agenda

Microplastics Widespread In Seafood Oregonians Eat, PSU Study Finds

SICK And Endress+Hauser Join Forces In Process Automation

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

Xylem Edge Control

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Sanitaire -- A Xylem Brand

AMI Codes-II

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Swan Analytical USA

Premium SureSafe Cartridges

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Harmsco Filtration Products

Submersible Drainage Pump XJ 900

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Sulzer Pumps Solutions Inc.

Hydra-Tapper

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Hydra-Stop

PAX Mixers

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