Drinking Water Treatment News

1. Carollo Engineers' Dr. Graham Juby Joins Elite Group Of WEF Fellows 9/10/2025

   Carollo Engineers, North America’s premier water engineering and consulting firm, today announced Vice President Dr. Graham Juby has been made a Fellow of the Water Environment Federation (WEF).

2. NORIT NSF-Certified Reactivation Facility Validates 99.98% PFAS Destruction 9/9/2025

   NORIT Activated Carbon (NORIT), a global leader in purification technologies, has validated that its thermal reactivation process is capable of consistently achieving 99.98% destruction of PFAS compounds in spent granular activated carbon (GAC) from municipal water treatment applications.

3. EWG Study: PFAS Water Treatment Has Double Benefits, Cutting Toxic PFAS And Carcinogens 9/4/2025

   Advanced systems for removing the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from drinking water can deliver far greater health benefits than previously thought because they slash levels of other harmful contaminants, a new peer-reviewed Environmental Working Group study finds.

4. Energy Recovery Awarded $31M In Desalination Contracts In The Gulf Region 9/3/2025

   Energy Recovery recently reported contract awards totaling approximately $31M for its PX Pressure Exchanger (PX) energy recovery devices for multiple seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination projects in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and other GCC countries.

5. Upcoming Webinar: POE PFAS Treatment Activated Carbon & Ion Exchange Resins Best Practices 9/2/2025

   Activated carbon is a proven technology for the removal of PFAS from water, but with PFAS being such a challenging family of chemicals to deal with, it’s important to make sure that some of the basic principles are being handled correctly to ensure maximum performance. In this webinar our application specialist will take us through some of the regulations we see in the US market today and how they impact the publics requirement for PFAS treatment today and in the future. Then we’ll look at best practices for using filtration media.

6. F.H. Paschen And GLWA Reach Major Milestone In Modernizing Springwells Water Treatment Facility 9/2/2025

   F.H. Paschen, a trusted leader in construction in Michigan has announced today the 50% completion milestone of its $25M flocculator replacement project at the Great Lakes Water Authority’s (GLWA) Springwells Water Treatment Facility.

7. Seven Seas Water Group And City Of Alice Celebrate Commissioning Of State's First Public-Private Brackish Water Desalination Plant 9/1/2025

   Seven Seas Water Group (“SSWG”), a multinational provider of Water-as-a-Service (“WaaS”) solutions, in partnership with the City of Alice, proudly commemorated the official launch of Texas’ first public-private brackish water reverse osmosis desalination facility.

8. TAQA To Expand Global Water Platform Through USD 1.2 Billion Acquisition Of GS Inima 8/25/2025

   Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC ("TAQA" or the "Group"), one of the largest listed integrated utilities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in GS Inima, a global leader in water treatment and water desalination, from GS Engineering & Construction.

9. WaterSurplus Announces That Industry Veteran Ricardo Bernal Has Joined The Company As Senior VP Of Business Development And Sales 8/25/2025

   WaterSurplus, a leader in sustainable water treatment, announces that Ricardo Bernal, an experienced and highly respected executive in the water industry, has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Sales.

10. Toward Improved Desalination: Characterizing Membranes In Wet vs. Dry States Reveals Dramatic Differences 8/24/2025

    A joint study by researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin sheds new light on the structure of membranes used in water desalination.