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• PFAS And Water Quality: What We Know About Forever Chemicals

  As public awareness of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) grows, so too does concern over their widespread presence in our water, soil, food, and even our bodies. Rapid, on-site, or remotely operated detection of these “forever chemicals” is a crucial step to understanding the levels of PFAS within our systems.

• Demystifying Federal And State Funding For Water Utilities

  Learn about funding initiatives that have passed to address potential health and safety issues in water and wastewater treatment systems. 

• KETOS SHIELD Expands Water Quality Monitoring Capabilities Detecting For Ammonia, Nitrates And Sulfates
• Water Sustainability: What Companies Are Promising And How They Can Deliver

  Water sustainability, conservation, and resiliency have become essential focus areas for many companies. While the US was once a water-rich country, certain areas are seeing what used to be an abundant resource become scarce.

• KETOS SHIELD Delivers Insight Into Critical Water Quality Parameters

  Food company leverages the KETOS SHIELD to stabilize water quality, reduce chemical costs, and ensure compliance with proactive water quality monitoring.

• Net-Positive Water Usage: Data Centers And Tech Companies Committing To Change

  Data center operators and many of the world’s largest tech companies are taking steps to ensure the long-term sustainability of water supplies by quantifying water usage -- while reducing overall water usage.

• Water Quality Guide: Vertical Agriculture Applications

  In soilless conditions, such as vertical farming scenarios, crops rely on water to receive the vital nutrients they need to grow and bear fruit. That doesn’t mean they use a lot of water. In fact, vertical farming utilizes up to 95% less water than traditional open field farming methods due to recycling methods and highly efficient systems.

• Water Quality Guide: Oil & Gas Applications

  Water is an essential component to oil and gas operations around the world. While it is integral to production, effluent water is often regulated and must be properly treated before it can be released back into the environment.

• Water Quality Guide: Municipality Applications

  Municipalities have a distinct role to play in the protection of public health. They are both a major source of information for the public as well as a critical provider of water infrastructure - providing both delivery of safe, clean drinking water, and the treatment of stormwater and wastewater. While water is a basic human need that is classified as a public good, when it comes to water quality monitoring, municipalities face a variety of challenges.

• Water Quality Guide: Mining Applications

  There is an ever-increasing focus on sustainability within the mining industry. Mining companies are already increasing their collaboration with local communities to improve existing infrastructure, reduce costs, and monitor local water supplies alongside governmental entities, but there is still much to be done.

• Water Quality Guide: Meat Processing Applications

  Water in meat processing is used for a variety of purposes, including chilling, scalding, washing, cleaning, and waste removal/ conveying. As the final product is to be consumed, stringent regulations surround the slaughtering, cleaning, and processing of meat products.

• Water Quality Guide: Manufacturing Applications

  When considering the resources needed for manufacturing for industrial purposes, we often overlook one of the largest and most important commodities used at almost every stage of the production process - water. Pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and smelting facilities all use water as an essential component of their processes. Manufacturing accounts for almost 25% of global freshwater withdrawals with that number only projected to increase with time says Fluence. However, with water scarcity a real threat to the global water supply as well as increased attention to sustainability in water by regulators and key stakeholders, the manufacturing industry must focus on managing their water usage efficiently and effectively.

• Water Quality Analytics Guide

  Data generation has exploded in recent years. In fact, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone, and estimates predict that the Worldwide Big Data market will double in the next several years. According to a recent McKinsey report, organizations can realize significant returns by investing in BI Analytics. In fact, investing in analytics will realize “a higher rate of return than other recent technologies have yielded, surpassing even the computer investment cycle in the 1980s.”

• Agriculture And Water Fact Sheet

  Water is an integral part of the agricultural sector. Agriculture uses the majority share of global freshwater resources - a staggering total of 70%. According to UNESCO, as an enormous consumer of water, the agricultural sector has been condemned for their seeming lack of efficiency in water usage despite intersectoral competition for water and an increase in water scarcity.

• Mining And Water Fact Sheet

  Columbia Water Center says that while many industries rely on water for operating processes, water is a particularly crucial component of the mining industry. At KETOS, many of our mining customers are faced with challenges that include increasing water maintenance costs. There's also an ever-increasing focus on sustainability within the industry. Mining companies are already increasing their collaboration with local communities to improve existing infrastructure, reduce costs, and monitor local water supplies alongside governmental entities. However, there is still much to be done to streamline water usage across the industry, says International Council on Mining and Metals.

• Manufacturing And Water Fact Sheet

  When considering the resources needed for manufacturing for industrial purposes, we often overlook one of the largest and most important commodities used at almost every stage of the production process - water. Pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and smelting facilities all use water as an essential component of their processes. Manufacturing accounts for almost 25% of global freshwater withdrawals with that number only projected to increase with time says Fluence. However, with water scarcity a real threat to the global water supply as well as increased attention to sustainability in water by regulators and key stakeholders, the manufacturing industry must focus on managing their water usage efficiently and effectively.

• Water Intelligence For Controlled-Environment Agriculture Systems (CEA)

  The average U.S. farm spends between $300 and $1,000 per acre on all of the equipment and inputs needed to grow crops in an openfield system. For a vertical farming system, this cost commonly reaches millions of dollars per shelf acre equivalent.

• SNWA Monitors Arsenic And Chromium Levels With KETOS SHIELD and KETOS Smart Water Intelligence Platform

  The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) addresses regional water issues serving more than 2.2 million residents in Southern Nevada. Including in its scope of responsibility, SNWA manages the Searchlight water treatment and distribution system which services Searchlight, Nevada. 

• Real-Time Heavy Metal Monitoring For Oil & Gas

  Large, distributed water networks are not well-suited for conventional water monitoring processes which rely on manual sampling and lab testing. In particular, this midstream oil and gas company had a need to detect Iron, Selenium, and other heavy metals at a precise level comparable to a lab. In addition, it wasn’t feasible to manually test the entire water system at the requisite frequency. Finally, instrument reliability and unplanned downtime were an issue.

• KETOS Ensures Consistent Product Quality With Water Quality Monitoring

  A microbrewery utilizing groundwater as one of the water sources in the brewing process had difficulty receiving permits. A full lifecycle remediation and monitoring process needed to be in place to receive permits.