Source Water Resources

1. How Industrial Facilities Are Rethinking Wastewater Treatment And Water Reuse As Discharge Rules And Operating Costs Tighten 10/22/2026

   Industrial facilities are under pressure to reduce freshwater consumption, control wastewater discharge costs, and maintain reliable production. Water reuse can help address all three concerns, but recovering water does not automatically make a facility more efficient.

2. Tackling Lake Erie's Algal Blooms Requires Targeted Conservation Strategies 10/19/2026

   Algal blooms in Lake Erie remind us how closely food production and clean water are connected. Many of these nutrients come from nearby farms, and the challenge is keeping them out of waterways.

3. How NMED Is Combating Statewide Water Loss Using Innovative Technology 10/15/2026

   Field-verified results from the first year of New Mexico's leak detection effort show how remote sensing can reach utilities serving fewer than 20,000 people, and what it found.

4. How One Small Utility Made A Big Impact On Water Loss Using Satellite-Based, AI-Powered Leak Detection 10/15/2026

   Satellite-guided targeting helps a small, drought-stressed utility find hidden leaks across hilly desert terrain in days rather than weeks, with field effort concentrated on a fraction of the network.

5. From Four Fragmented Systems To One Unified, Managed Network 10/13/2026

   A high-desert water utility replaced a patchwork of legacy meter-reading technologies with one managed AMI network, gaining hourly data and better billing without building a network operations team.

6. Smart Irrigation: How Digital Tools Help Cities And Growers Save Water 10/9/2026

   Fixed schedules and rigid controls waste water on farms and in city parks. Integrated data from sensors, forecasts, and satellites enable more responsive irrigation, though adoption faces real obstacles.

7. After The Fire: What The 2026 Wildfires And El Niño Could Mean For U.S. Lakes And Reservoirs In 2027 10/8/2026

   In July, smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across the upper Midwest and Northeast. Now a strengthening El Niño is set to influence the coming winter. Both events matter to lake and reservoir managers because their effects on water quality will continue to emerge long after the skies clear or the El Niño passes.

8. Why UV-AOP Is Becoming A Cornerstone For Potable Reuse 10/8/2026

   UV-AOP can provide a critical treatment barrier for potable reuse, while demonstration skids help utilities validate performance under site-specific conditions before committing to full-scale systems.

9. Minneapolis Flexes Its Mussels For Source Water Monitoring Solution 10/7/2026

   Protecting municipal drinking water requires rapid visibility into changing surface source conditions. Discover how combining biological indicators with continuous inline spectrometry delivers real-time contamination alerts, preventing costly treatment plant shutdowns and safeguarding consumer health.

10. Why Produced Water Treatment Is Becoming Critical For Sustainable Oil & Gas Operations 10/5/2026

    Produced water is far from ordinary wastewater. It typically contains high concentrations of dissolved salts, residual hydrocarbons, suspended solids, heavy metals, chemical additives, and naturally occurring contaminants. Without proper treatment, managing these complex waste streams becomes both environmentally risky and financially burdensome.