Wastewater Analysis Resources

  1. Supporting Improved Wastewater Intelligence And Source Control With Real-Time Data Gathering And Event-Triggered Sampling 12/22/2021

    Wastewater can be both a potentially harmful pollutant and a valuable resource and a vital raw material. It could be the potential key to sustainable water consumption. 

  2. SWAN Corner: Wastewater Components Guide Sewer Investigations 12/14/2021

    Extraneous water in the wastewater network is likely to increase as the climate change progresses. Wastewater components can offer key information for water utilities for prioritizing network inspections and renovations, such as CCTV and manhole cover inspections. At the same time, calculating wastewater components out of pumping stations data is a valuable example of how water utilities can extract concrete insights from large data sets.

  3. The Future Of Wastewater: Why Has The U.S. Been So Slow To Adopt AI Tools? 11/1/2021

    Wastewater analytics are already being used around the world to monitor contamination, optimize treatment processes, and catch environmental scofflaws. So why has the U.S. been so slow to adopt these technologies?

  4. Detecting COVID-19 Early Via Wastewater Surveillance 10/25/2021

    Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is the analysis of wastewater to identify the presence of biologicals or chemicals for the purpose of monitoring public health. It can provide a snapshot of entire communities from one sample. Detecting viral diseases by way of wastewater monitoring is nothing new, it’s been known for decades that viral particles can be detected in human feces. WBE has previously been used to detect the presence of pharmaceutical or industrial waste, drugs, viruses, and potential emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In Israel, a wastewater surveillance program for monitoring polio outbreaks has been successfully running since 1989.

  5. Math Solutions Explained: Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) mg/L 8/23/2021

    Water Online’s “Math Solutions Explained” series, presented by wastewater consultant and trainer Dan Theobald (“Wastewater Dan”), educates operators by explaining BOD mg/L calculations.

  6. Employing Wastewater Testing To Monitor Infection Trends And Control The Spread Of COVID-19 7/21/2021

    Since March of last year, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the U.S. has recorded over 33.7 million cases of infection and surpassed 600,000 deaths due to the highly transmissible viral disease.

  7. Custom Water Panel Answers Multiple Water Questions 4/23/2021

    A mid-size water system in the southeast was looking to pull together multiple measurements in a single panel. After reviewing off-the-shelf solutions, they realized there was nothing that met their requirements.

  8. Looking Forward: How Digital Solutions Can Save Us From Future Disasters 3/18/2021

    Infrastructure rarely makes headlines, but the severe devastation in Texas requires a blunt conversation about aging infrastructure in the U.S. In a strange coincidence, shortly after news and images from Texas shocked the world, ASCE published its 2021 Infrastructure Report Card highlighting the decrepit state of the nation’s infrastructure, and, for the first time, including a report card for stormwater management.

  9. IoT — An Ideal Technology To Revolutionize Sewage Treatment And Management 2/9/2021

    With freshwater sources depleting rapidly, treating and consuming wastewater seems to be the only option in the near future. As per a UN population fund released in 2001, it was estimated that the world will start facing water-related issues by 2050.

  10. Indiana Wastewater Monitoring Program: Sampling Community Sewersheds For SARS-CoV-2 1/20/2021

    A community wastewater system can provide valuable information about public health conditions in an anonymous and rapidly accessible manner. One area where this is especially powerful is infectious diseases, which are shed into wastewater systems. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific community has rapidly mobilized to determine if wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could be detected and quantified in wastewater streams and sludge.