Laura Martin Articles

  1. Biosolids Program Can Improve Efficiency, Save Money 12/9/2013

    The National Biosolids Partnership’s Biosolids Management Program, offered by the Water Environment Federation, is designed to equip operators, managers, and administrators with tools to track and monitor data needed to achieve optimized biosolids management performance and ensure regulatory compliance. 

  2. Biological Filtration: The Future Of Drinking Water Treatment? 12/9/2013

    Costs of handling wastewater treatment residuals, DBP regulations, and new contaminants that are responsive to biological degradation are all on the rise — factors that make biological treatment an effective solution.

  3. Using Wastewater And Sunlight To Generate Clean Energy 11/22/2013

    A solar-microbial device, created from a  photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) and a microbial fuel cell (MFC), can generate hydrogen with just wastewater and sunlight and no outside energy.

  4. Biogas By The Numbers 11/22/2013
    The Biogas Database features data from 5,127 wastewater treatment plants, the EPA, and approximately 20 wastewater industry experts.
  5. Water Remediation 'Robots' Feast On Over 400 Wastewater Contaminants, Then Self-Destruct 11/21/2013

    Meet the BactoBots, the secret agents of wastewater treatment.

  6. Sun-Powered Nanogrid Cleans Fracking Wastewater 11/19/2013

    A high-tech “net” and the power of the sun are all that is needed to remove contaminants from water produced by fracking operations, oil spills, textile manufacturing, and other sources.

  7. Electricity-Producing Microbes Treat Wastewater, Provide Power Source 11/15/2013

    Newly discovered electrogenic organisms could significantly reduce energy costs for the wastewater industry.

  8. A New Approach To Early Biofilm Detection 11/14/2013

    To assist industrial operators in managing and preventing biofilm, Italian start-up ALVIM Srl created a monitoring system that provides early warning detection of bacterial biofilm growing on pipelines, tanks, heat exchangers, RO membranes, and other equipment.

  9. WERF Program Gives New Water Technology A 'LIFT' 11/11/2013

    WERF and WEF created the Leaders Innovation Forum for Technology, or LIFT, to generate innovation  and help move new technology into practice.

  10. Waste To Energy: WWTP Powered 100% By Renewable Sources 11/11/2013

    A wastewater treatment facility in New Jersey has gone off the grid.