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51. How Digital Payments Infrastructure Increases Hurricane Preparedness 9/26/2025
    The 2024 hurricane season was one of the most severe on record, creating unprecedented destruction to the tune of $182.7 billion worth of damage. Scientists predict that this year's storm season, which officially began June 1, will likely be highly active and volatile as well. As hurricanes become more difficult to accurately predict and prepare for, the damage caused by burst pipes, flooding, downed trees and debris, and disrupted utilities is also increasing.
52. Responsible Reclamation – City of Abilene, Texas 9/25/2025

    To combat drought, Abilene, Texas, implemented a reuse system utilizing O₃​ + BAC to remove trace organics. This solution met strict standards, ensured water resilience, and proved more cost-effective than AOP alternatives.

53. From The War Of Currents To The Water Grid: Lessons In Infrastructure, Innovation, And Integration 9/25/2025

    How Edison vs. Tesla shapes today's approach to sustainable water systems.

54. Aqua TruDense Brochure 9/25/2025

    The Aqua TruDense system is a densified sludge treatment technology that combines all of the features and benefits of a true-batch SBR system, with the intensification of densified sludge. The enhanced treatment characteristics of the densified sludge allows for faster settling with increased MLSS concentrations.

55. Aqua TruDense: True Densified Sequencing Batch Reactor 9/25/2025

    The Aqua TruDense system is a densified sludge treatment technology that combines all of the features and benefits of a true-batch SBR system, with the intensification of densified sludge. The enhanced treatment characteristics of the densified sludge allows for faster settling with increased MLSS concentrations. The system provides a much smaller footprint when compared to conventional activated sludge (50-60% less) and batch activated sludge systems (20-25% less). All treatment processes including selective feeding, react phases, surface wasting, settling and clarification occur in a single basin. This creates ideal controlled conditions for densification of sludge, without the need for external separation devices such as hydrocyclones or lamella clarifiers. This innovative, densified sludge treatment technology features true-batch operation and a time-based control strategy providing the ultimate in treatment flexibility.

56. Extracting Water From Air: A Historical And Military Perspective 9/23/2025

    In the early 2000s, I was consulting for a military contractor on expanding their mobile water treatment system for military applications. As part of that work, I researched other water supply technologies used by the U.S. military, including atmospheric water generation (AWG) — the process of extracting potable water directly from the air.

57. Solving The World's Microplastics Problem: 4 Solutions Cities And States Are Trying After Global Treaty Talks Collapsed 9/23/2025

    Microplastics seem to be everywhere — in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Countries have tried for the past few years to write a global plastics treaty that might reduce human exposure, but the latest negotiations collapsed in August 2025. While U.S. and global solutions seem far off, policies to limit harm from microplastics are gaining traction at the state and local levels.

58. Digital Solutions For City Water Challenges: A New Blueprint For Sustainable Cities 9/22/2025
    Cities are grappling with a combination of threats that make urban water management a defining challenge of the 21st century. In this context, digital transformation is emerging as a critical enabler, reimagining how urban water systems confront these realities and prepare for the uncertainties ahead.
59. Minnetonka, MN Pilots Acoustic Pipe Assessment Prior To Road Resurfacing 9/19/2025

    A Minnesota suburb used non-invasive acoustic technology to assess an aging water main before a 20-year road construction moratorium. This critical data allowed them to confidently prioritize pipe renewals and better manage their infrastructure budget.

60. What Water Utilities Need To Know About Climate Adaptation 9/18/2025
    No one knows more than water utilities how changing climate conditions are impacting the challenges and costs of delivering clean drinking water to communities they serve. In a recent episode of The Water Online Show, climate experts Jesse M. Keenan from Tulane University and Edgar Westerhof of Arcadis discussed the issue of resiliency for drinking water and wastewater systems.