Latest Industrial Insights
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[AUDIO] When You Give, People Give Back
5/12/2022
For Trace Blackmore, it’s all about helping others. When you help others, they innately help you, too. The host of the Scaling UP! H2O podcast loves to give, and is encouraging others to join him on the World Vision Global 6K for Water, too.
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Innovation In Water Remediation: Specialized Electrocoagulation For Water Hardness Removal
5/10/2022
Hardness in water can be characterized into its primary constituent mineral components, typically calcium and magnesium. Excess water hardness in a water supply creates many issues for industry, utilities, and life in general.
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How Prevalent And Dangerous Is Pesticide Contamination?
5/5/2022
Add pesticides to the list of contaminants that are prevalent in U.S. drinking water and can cause severe health impacts, including cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
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The Labor Shortage: Examining The What, Why, And How Behind An Ever-Growing Problem
5/4/2022
Dr. Rachel Sederberg didn’t mince words when describing the seriousness of the labor shortage in the United States. It’s long been a problem, and now it’s getting (much) worse. When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in February of 2020, there were 7 million job openings and 5.9 million unemployed people in the U.S. Two years into the pandemic, the statistics paint a dire picture of the workforce landscape as it stands presently.
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New Pumping Station In Washington Provides Continuous Water Service
4/29/2022
Times have changed in Washington state’s Skagit County, perched just 25 miles south of the Canadian border. Skagit County, which extends across 1,920 square miles, maintains one of the largest and most diverse agricultural communities west of the Cascade mountain range. Over 90 different crops are grown in this fertile valley, including blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, tulips, daffodils, pickling cucumbers, and specialty potatoes.
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Water Is Food
4/28/2022
Celebrating Earth Day always reminds me of the great Arthur C. Clarke's observation that we shouldn't have called our planet "earth," but "ocean" instead — after all, it's mostly water. The same is true of food: most food is literally largely water, and every morsel of our food figuratively floats on a sea of water that was necessary to produce it.
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Community Voices: California Farmers Are Key To Carbon Capture
4/22/2022
"Getting to Neutral" by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) draws a roadmap to California's carbon neutrality by 2045, removing 125 million tons of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere (and the economy). But unlike the actual map of California, LLNL's carbon roadmap barely includes the 27 million acres of cropland and 16 million acres of grazing land. And that's a massive oversight.
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Micro-Irrigation Maintenance: How To Lower The Cost of Water And Increase Your Yield
4/11/2022
Do you have a micro-irrigation system that doesn’t seem to work just right?
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Expanding Industrial Applications For Automation In Pumping
4/8/2022
The Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and connectivity in drives is the future, and many market segments must modernize to compete. The world is more connected than ever with new technological advances that produce higher process efficiency and time savings. To stay competitive in this environment, companies must include automated solutions such as remote management, monitoring, and control.
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U.S. Commercial Water Treatment Market Trends
3/31/2022
The United States commercial water treatment market was valued at over $5.0 billion in 2021 and is expected to witness a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of between 5.0 to 10.0 percent over the next 7 years. Key players in this market include Culligan International Co., Ecolab, Inc., Evoqua Water Technologies Corp., and Pentair Industries, Inc.