Newsletter | May 5, 2025

05.05.25 -- U.S. And Mexico Strike Water Deal Amid Growing Rio Grande Crisis

IN THIS ISSUE:

Source & Drinking Water Treatment

Distribution & Collection Systems

Wastewater Treatment

Utility Management

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AquaPrime® Cloth Media Filter

The AquaPrime cloth media filtration system is designed as an economical and efficient solution for the treatment of primary wastewater. This system utilizes a disk configuration and the exclusive OptiFiber PF-14® pile cloth filtration media to effectively filter high solids waste streams without the use of chemicals. This system is ideal for primary wastewater treatment due to its proven removal efficiencies and high quality effluent, even under varying influent conditions.

SOURCE & DRINKING WATER TREATMENT

Aquafine Ultraviolet Treatment Systems For TOC Reduction

Aquafine TOC reduction units coupled with ion exchange systems or EDI will oxidize trace organics into smaller ionic species, carbon dioxide and water, which are more readily removed by ion exchange resins, EDI, and/or degasifiers.

Ozone Technology In Aquaculture: Enhancing Water Quality And Health

Water quality is the backbone of a successful aquaculture operation. Poor water conditions lead to disease outbreaks, low survival rates, and reduced productivity. Traditional chemical treatments can leave harmful residues and negatively impact both aquatic life and the environment.

Purifying Water From The Ground Up

For some water providers, carefree days of producing pure, fresh water from groundwater sources are long gone. Years of evolving chemical complexity, industrial operations, and short-sighted disposal methods have taken a toll on groundwater sources. 

BioLargo Takes PFAS Innovation To A New Level

Many factors go into picking the right PFAS treatment solution and there is no silver bullet, no “black box”.  And knowing what questions to ask for any particular system can vary state to state, depending on the influent water. 

DISTRIBUTION & COLLECTION SYSTEMS

What Is Noninvasive Leak Detection?

By utilizing advanced technologies to monitor water lines, utilities can detect leaks in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Ensuring Continuous Water Supply During Emergency Hospital Line Repair

Hydra-Stop's insertion valve provided targeted control to allow for the removal and replacement of a cracked pipe without affecting service to a hospital. 

FPI Mag Meter Meets The Needs Of A Water Distribution Plant In Italy

McCrometer, and channel partner Tecnova, were able to help meet the demands of this water distribution customer by identifying and supplying the necessary meter to satisfy their specific needs.

Battery-Operated Mag Meter Provides Reliable Flow Rate Measurements In Remote Areas

A municipal water district had questioned the accuracy of their water meter readings and, after testing, they found that the billing amounts were too low. Discover the solution that they chose to provide reliable flow rate measurement. 

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Discover why the Las Vegas Valley Water District chose to modernize its meter data management with a cloud-based solution. Learn how aging infrastructure, customer expectations, and scalability needs drove their digital transformation. This session highlights their strategic priorities, key challenges, and how the new platform supports real-time insights, conservation, and long-term growth—offering practical guidance for evaluating tech through a future-focused lens. Click here to learn more.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Why MBR's Higher Energy Demand Still Reduces Overall OPEX In Wastewater Treatment

MBRs offer long-term cost savings by reducing sludge, chemicals, and labor — even with higher energy use — making them a future-proof, total-efficiency upgrade over traditional wastewater treatment systems.

 

Knowing The Biology Of This 88-Acre Lagoon Helped Design The Right Aeration System

Read about a project that aimed to increase dissolved oxygen concentrations of an 88-surface-acre coastal lagoon community. 

Moving Fast To Perform 'Triple Bypass' Operation For Wastewater Treatment Plant

The first sign of trouble in “America’s Hometown” came on December 19, 2015. Plymouth, MA, is the celebrated site where the Pilgrims landed in 1620, but on this day the prominent municipality was facing a major problem: the 4.5-mile force main from the Water Street Pump Station to the Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant had given way.

City Of Warren, MI, Installs Promag W For Waste-Activated Sludge Application

The City of Warren Water Recovery Facility in Michigan treats and protects the waters of the state. Read the full case study to learn how the facility has been able to attain accurate data at a high repeatability rate since the installation of the Promag W unrestricted mounting 0 x DN electromagnetic flow meter.

UTILITY MANAGEMENT

Improve Decision-Making With Digital Twins

From aging infrastructure to climate-fueled natural disasters, water utilities around the globe face a range of problems in their effort to deliver reliable and affordable water to their communities. Their potential solutions are similarly wide-ranging, from stimulus grants and conservation programs to smart water technologies.

Condition Assessment Tool Provides Southern California With A Proactive Asset Management Plan

Read about a noninvasive and nonintrusive technology that enables rapid inspection of large areas of a water distribution network without removing the pipelines from service, avoiding service interruptions, pipeline dewatering/cleaning, or costly excavations.

Building Trust: How Water Quality Monitoring Can Strengthen Consumer Relationships

In order to reassure consumers that their water is clean and stay ahead of legitimate risks, many water utilities are turning to online water quality monitoring in the distribution system.

Eastside Utility District Takes Cellular AMI Path To A Modernized Network

Having deployed cellular-based AMI with ultrasonic meters, EUD can more accurately monitor water consumption, see near-real-time leak alerts, and operate with greater efficiency and safely.

INDUSTRY NEWS

U.S. And Mexico Strike Water Deal Amid Growing Rio Grande Crisis

The United States and Mexico have recently reached an agreement on how water will be shared from the Rio Grande basin. This agreement comes in response to Mexico falling significantly behind on its water delivery obligations, exacerbating drought conditions in South Texas.

EPA Celebrates 100 Days With 100 Environmental Actions

Water Losses Cost U.S. Utilities US$6.4B Annually

Legislators, Advocates, And Farmers Call For Ban Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On Farmland

AqueoUS Vets Launches FoamPro, A Novel Foam Fractionation System For PFAS Treatment

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