Water Industry Features

31. How Blast Freezing Affects The Quality Of Bottled Drug Substance: Test Results And Insights 10/27/2025

    Uneven ice formation during bottle freezing creates a "Volcano Effect," pushing solutes into highly concentrated zones. This test-based study explains this risk to drug substance quality.

32. Hot Springs Combats Aging Infrastructure Challenges With Xylem Digital Solutions 4/30/2025

    The City of Hot Springs, Arkansas knows the challenges of dealing with aging infrastructure well. The city’s 143-year-old system covers 923 miles of water mains in rocky terrain, making it difficult to detect leaks. That is why the utility’s water department decided to act. 

33. Innovation In Filtration 3/18/2025

    Filtration removes contaminants to ensure safety and is essential in various applications, from lab-scale tasks to GMP production. Explore how its simplicity and reliability make it indispensable.

34. EU Annex 1: Building Modern CDMO Sterile Fill/Finish Facilities 2/13/2026

    A CDMO guide to implementing EU Annex 1 for modern sterile fill/finish facilities, covering cleanroom design, contamination control, utilities, personnel, monitoring, and audit essentials.

35. Every Bad Chlorine Reading Costs You Twice 7/24/2026

    Inaccurate residual readings force water treatment facilities to overdose expensive chemicals or risk regulatory non-compliance. Maintaining measurement accuracy across fluctuating water conditions eliminates costly safety margins and lowers daily chemical expenses.

36. Designing For Growth: How To Build Modular Capacity Without Breaking Ground Twice 12/11/2025

    Learn how to design wastewater infrastructure that grows with demand. Modular systems allow phased capacity additions that match actual flow, avoiding the high cost of oversizing and eliminating the need for disruptive, repeated construction.

37. 8 Ways MBR Assists Your Utility In Emergency Response 12/11/2025

    Whether it’s a hurricane, flood, fire, or extended power outage, the systems that sustain communities are often the first to be tested. And among all treatment technologies available, membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have proven uniquely resilient.

38. The Afterlife Of PFAS: Solving A Problem That Doesn't End 8/6/2026

    Managing persistent water contaminants requires shifting from temporary removal to complete lifecycle destruction. Sustainable remediation strategies target upstream industrial discharge and concentrate waste streams to permanently safeguard drinking water sources from re-contamination.

39. Ion Exchange (IX) Systems 12/5/2025

    Ion exchange (IX) is a tried-and-true method of removing metals and other inorganic compounds from water. Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, selenium, radionuclides, and zinc are just a few examples of the compounds that our ion exchange systems have removed from water.
40. Municipal Water Treatment: A Look At The Advantages Of Performance Testing For Powdered Activated Carbon 5/21/2026

    Evaluating Powdered Activated Carbon through site-specific performance testing allows water utilities to optimize chemical dosing based on real-world efficacy rather than upfront price, preventing costly operational strains and ensuring reliable contaminant removal.