Treatment News

1. AI Helps Researchers Optimise Wastewater Treatment 8/17/2026

   Removing lead from contaminated water is not as simple as passing the water through a filter.

2. Floating Wetlands Slash Wastewater Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study 8/25/2026

   A world-first trial of floating wetland pods in wastewater lagoons shows they cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than a quarter, highlighting their potential as a nature-based solution for decarbonising the water sector.

3. Understanding The Climate Cost Of Cleaning Our Water 10/8/2025

   In a new study, a team led by researchers from Northwestern University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign analyzed data from more than 15,000 wastewater treatment facilities to understand the climate costs hidden within all this cleaning.

4. Kier Secures More Than £51M Of Severn Trent AMP8 Wastewater Upgrades 7/17/2026

   Kier has been appointed to deliver improvement works at three wastewater treatment works in Droitwich, Warton and Worksop as part of Severn Trent’s AMP8 investment programme.

5. Peab Builds Wastewater Treatment Plant In Vemdalen 6/4/2026

   Peab has been commissioned to build a new wastewater treatment plant in Vemdalen. The customer is Vatten och miljö resurs on behalf of Härjedalen Municipality and the contract is worth SEK 252 million.

6. Sunvapor's Pilot Desalination Facility Purifies Oilfield Water In The Permian Basin 3/16/2026

   Sunvapor, Inc., a leading developer of low-carbon industrial process plants, and Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC) have commenced joint operations of the country's first solar desalination facility located at a commercial salt water disposal well.

7. Efficient Biogas Power Plant Solutions For Brewery Wastewater Treatment Integrating UASB Process And GFS Tanks 8/25/2026

   The core challenges of industrial wastewater treatment center on the "three highs"-high difficulty, high cost, and high energy consumption.

8. Enersense Signs A Significant Agreement With Aquatech For The Water Treatment Plant Of The World's First Large-Scale Green Steel Mill 6/24/2026

   Enersense will install pipelines and steel structures for the water treatment plant at the world’s first large-scale green steel mill which is being built in Boden, northern Sweden. Advancing near-zero emission steel production is essential for climate change mitigation, since steel currently produces around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

9. Toray Broadens Industrial Wastewater Treatment And Advanced Water Purification Lineup With Two New Nanofiltration Membrane Element Models 8/30/2026

   Toray Industries, Inc., announced today that it launched two advanced nanofiltration membrane element models worldwide during July this year.

10. Perini Management Services, Inc. Awarded $69.5 Million Water And Wastewater Treatment Systems Rehabilitation Project 8/3/2026

    Tutor Perini Corporation (the “Company”), a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced today that its subsidiary, Perini Management Services, Inc. (“PMSI”), has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $69.5M by the National Park Service for a water and wastewater treatment systems rehabilitation project at Death Valley National Park in California.