Newsletter | October 9, 2026

10.09.26 -- Why Advanced Oxidation Is Entering Its Most Important Decade

IN THIS ISSUE:

What Would Your Best Operator Do With 40 Hours A Month Back?

Minneapolis Flexes Its Mussels For Source Water Monitoring Solution

Maximizing Solids-Handling Performance

What Your Chlorine Residual Is Trying To Tell You

What Are You Doing To My Pipe: Can PVC Pipe Be Loaded?

Choosing The Right Instrumentation For Produced Water Treatment Systems

A Smarter Path For Small Wastewater Systems

Aries Arsenic Reduction

Evaluating VFD Placement In Data Center Pumping Systems

Why Advanced Oxidation Is Entering Its Most Important Decade

PFAS Treatment In Reverse Osmosis Concentrate

Why Produced Water Treatment Is Becoming Critical For Sustainable Oil & Gas Operations

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Minneapolis Flexes Its Mussels For Source Water Monitoring Solution

Protecting municipal drinking water requires rapid visibility into changing surface source conditions. Discover how combining biological indicators with continuous inline spectrometry delivers real-time contamination alerts, preventing costly treatment plant shutdowns and safeguarding consumer health.

What Your Chlorine Residual Is Trying To Tell You

We look at what your chlorine residual monitoring data is trying to tell you — and provide brief explanations on the subject.

Aries Arsenic Reduction

Arsenic has no smell, taste, or color when dissolved in water even in high concentrations. It is a potential concern to those who live in areas with high natural deposits of arsenic, receive runoff from orchards, or from glass and electronic production waste.

Maximizing Solids-Handling Performance Of Municipal, Commercial, And Industrial Pumps

The rise in the use of disposable wipes and other non-dispersible debris is driving the need for more efficient handling of solids in pumps at municipal lift stations and wastewater treatment plant headworks.

What Are You Doing To My Pipe: Can PVC Pipe Be Loaded?

The argument has been used that PVC pipe is delicate and can’t be subjected to any kind of loading. In EBAA's years of testing we have found that is not the case at all. PVC can take an extreme amount of strain.

Choosing The Right Instrumentation For Produced Water Treatment Systems

A range of devices are required to cost-effectively manage the lifecycle of produced water. Operators often face the question of which process instrumentation is the right fit given the unique requirements of their application.

A Smarter Path For Small Wastewater Systems

Small wastewater facilities face rising risks from aging infrastructure and tightening standards. Rather than pursuing costly total replacements, communities can utilize targeted engineering and process optimization to manage flow variability, reduce energy costs, and ensure long-term affordability.

What Would Your Best Operator Do With 40 Hours A Month Back?

Routine maintenance and travel consume valuable technical capacity. Eliminating low-judgment upkeep tasks frees skilled operators to focus on high-value priorities, turning time savings into a workforce multiplier that strengthens long-term system reliability.

Evaluating VFD Placement In Data Center Pumping Systems

Explore how VFD placement impacts vibration, thermal exposure, maintenance access, and long-term reliability in mission-critical data center pumping systems.

PFAS Treatment In Reverse Osmosis Concentrate

Discover how specialized cyclodextrin media treated over 65,000 gallons of highly concentrated reject water, achieving total removal of key target compounds across a 64-day trial without interference from complex background chemistry.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Why Advanced Oxidation Is Entering Its Most Important Decade

As utilities tackle persistent micropollutants, expand water reuse, and meet more demanding treatment requirements, advanced oxidation is being asked to solve problems conventional approaches were not designed to address.

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New 2-In-1 Approach To Clean Heavy Metals And Recover Valuable Rare-Earth Elements From Water

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Could Wastewater Algae Become A New Material For Manufacturing?

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120Water Partners With TeamSolve To Better Connect Field Data And Water Compliance

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ROTEC's Flow Reversal Selected For Advanced Water Reuse Project At Southern California Power Plant

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

AquaPASS® Phased Activated Sludge System

The AquaPASS® process system is a leading-edge technology in the application of activated sludge for enhanced nutrient removal and wastewater reuse objectives.

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Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.

 

 

Monitor AMI Codes-II HC

Complete systems for the automatic and constant measurement and control of elevated chlorine concentrations.

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Swan Analytical USA

 

 

LeakFX

LeakFX is a data analysis tool for water utilities to quickly summarize, categorize, and prioritize suspected water leaks in their distribution system.  This new tool saves water utilities hours of individual logger analysis every day.  Instead of selecting logger by logger to view leak information, LeakFX combines all suspected leaks in one streamlined report.

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Fluid Conservation Systems Inc.

 

 

TYTON JOINT® Ductile Iron Pipe

TYTON JOINT® is U.S. Pipe’s trademark for pipe with a push-on type connection. Simplicity, sturdiness and watertightness are built into the system by design. 

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U.S. Pipe

 

 

PWS Portal

One system for utilities to manage compliance data across every location.

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120Water

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

 

From Measurement To Management: Better Software Starts With Better Data

This segment of Virtual Water Expo highlights how Kamstrup's flowIQ smart water platform transitions water utilities from simple measurement to proactive system management by anchoring software analytics in ultra-reliable hardware.

 

Removal Of Naturally Occurring Uranium With Purolite™ A300E

Discover how ion exchange technology effectively removes radioactive uranium isotopes from municipal wastewater. This case study explores the transition from pilot studies to full-scale remediation, highlighting the importance of technical support in meeting stringent local water quality standards.

 

NT3100sc UV Nitrate Sensor Datasheet

Improve your experience in nitrate measurement with Hach's new NT3100sc sensor. Backed by a legacy of reagent-free UV absorbance technology expertise, Hach's NT3100sc UV Nitrate Sensor is equipped to meet your unique application needs.

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Why Produced Water Treatment Is Becoming Critical For Sustainable Oil & Gas Operations

Produced water is far from ordinary wastewater. It typically contains high concentrations of dissolved salts, residual hydrocarbons, suspended solids, heavy metals, chemical additives, and naturally occurring contaminants. Without proper treatment, managing these complex waste streams becomes both environmentally risky and financially burdensome.

 

PRODUCT FOCUS

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WET WELL WIZARD Wastewater Collection System Aeration - RELIANT Water Technologies

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Recover: Leak Detection And Analysis - ASTERRA

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FLEXFLO® M4 Peristaltic Metering Pump - Blue-White Industries

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SLG®- F Mobile Pretreatment & Sludge Thickening - Orege

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