Drinking Water Filtration News

  1. Beneficial Biofilm Works As A 'Probiotic' To Control Biofouling 5/2/2016

    A team of chemical engineers at Penn State has developed a beneficial biofilm with the ability to prevent the biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.

  2. American Water Awarded Filtration Research Grant From Water Research Foundation 10/21/2013

    American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, recently announced it has been awarded a research grant from the Water Research Foundation to investigate removal mechanisms of nitrosamine precursors during the filtration of drinking water.

  3. DuPont Consolidates Ultrafiltration Technologies Under New IntegraTec Brand 2/14/2023

    To better serve municipal and industrial customers, DuPont is consolidating and rebranding its diverse portfolio of ultrafiltration (UF) membranes for the sustainable purification, conservation, and reuse of water.

  4. Surge For Water celebrates World Water Day With Campaign Aimed To Provide Water Filters To 1,000 Families 3/3/2025

    Surge for Water, a global women-led, community driven nonprofit dedicated to providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions, calls on individuals and businesses to take action this World Water Day by fundraising to help provide clean, safe water to 1,000 families in Indonesia.

  5. Brown and Caldwell To Manage Portland's Historic Switch To Filtered Water Supply 9/25/2018

    Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, recently announced it was awarded a contract to provide program management services for Portland Water Bureau’s (PWB) $500M Bull Run Filtration Project.

  6. Let The Good Tubes Roll 1/18/2018

    Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed.

  7. DuPont To Acquire Membrane Business From Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. 10/3/2019

    DuPont recently announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the Memcor business including ultrafiltration and membrane biofiltration technologies from Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. 

  8. IDE Americas To Provide Reverse Osmosis Solution For Revitalization Of Seawater Desalination Facility In California 10/1/2015

    IDE Americas announced it has been selected to refurbish, operate and maintain the recommissioned Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant in Santa Barbara, California.

  9. Hitachi To Merge RO Membrane System Subsidiary And Water Facilities Engineering Subsidiary In Singapore 3/18/2016

    Hitachi, Ltd. announced recently that it has decided to merge Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering Pte. Ltd. (Managing Director: Tang Chay Wee; "Hitachi Aqua-Tech"), which handles the design, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane systems, and Aqua Works and Engineering Pte. Ltd. (CEO: Terry Chang; "Aqua Works"), an engineering company that handles water related facilities for condominiums as well as commercial and public facilities.

  10. Niagara Bottling Finalizes Agreement With New Logic Research To Install VSEP® Brine Minimization System 4/22/2015

    New Logic Research and Niagara Bottling, LLC ("Niagara") announced today the finalization of an agreement to provide a VSEP® brine minimization system for a Niagara facility currently being built in the United States.