Wastewater News
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Hydroflux Completes A 7.2MLD Membrane Bioreactor Upgrade For Ballina WWTP
6/17/2025
Hydroflux recently completed the upgrade of the Ballina WWTP to increase the plant’s MBR filtration capacity from 5.4 to 7.2 ML/day ADWF, deliver a new UV disinfection system, provide new process instrumentation, SCADA modifications and required site construction alterations.
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Prescribing Fewer Antibiotics Might Not Be Enough To Combat Threat Of 'Superbugs', Says New Research
6/17/2025
Antimicrobial resistance is still spreading in the environment despite a reduction in the amounts of antibiotic drugs prescribed, according to a new study led by the University of Bath.
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Fathom Integrates Future Climate Into Global Flood Cat
6/17/2025
Flood risk intelligence company Fathom today announces the integration of future climate scenarios into its Global Flood Cat, making it the first flood catastrophe model to include them at a global scale.
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Groundbreaking Water Treatment Research Advances Potable Reuse Technologies
6/17/2025
A pioneering research study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and utilities has been completed, providing clear guidance for pathogen reduction in carbon-based advanced treatment (CBAT) water systems.
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EPA And Army Wrap Up Initial Listening Sessions, Move Toward Proposal To Revise 2023 Definition Of WOTUS
6/17/2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (Army) have completed a robust series of listening sessions intended to seek input from stakeholders on real-world and practical experience with Clean Water Act (CWA) programs and requirements that rely on the definition of “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS.
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Biogas, Forever Chemicals And Sand Filtration: Cranfield Supports Three Innovative Projects To Address Water Sector Challenges
6/16/2025
Cranfield University is involved with three projects recently awarded funding from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund Water Breakthrough Challenge. Winning a share of £42M in funding, the projects will focus on solutions to some of the water sector’s biggest challenges.
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Inauguration Of The Eaux Blanches Wastewater Treatment Plant In Sète, Occitanie Region, A Key Facility To Protect The Environment And Accelerate The Energy Transition
6/16/2025
Loïc Linares, President of Sète agglopôle méditerranée, Hervé Marques, Mayor of Sète, Karine Bonacina, Director of the Montpellier delegation of the Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency, Arnaud Bazire, CEO of SUEZ Water France, and François-Xavier Lauch, Prefect of Hérault, inaugurated the new Eaux Blanches wastewater treatment plant in Sète, Hérault, on June 14th, 2025.
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Proactive, Secondary Containment Vessels For Preventing Hazardous Gas Release From Cylinders And Ton-Containers Now Also Available For Preventing Release From Bulk Storage Tanks
6/16/2025
The inventor of unique, proactive, secondary containment vessels for preventing hazardous releases of chlorine, anhydrous ammonia, and sulfur dioxide gases, from their cylinders or ton-containers, to plant and community environments, now also offers a similar function when the gases are stored in bulk storage tanks.
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U.S., Mexico Fast-Track Solution To Tijuana River Pollutants
6/12/2025
After UCSD research indicated worsening air and water quality in the San Diego area as a result of wastewater contamination in the Tijuana River, the U.S. EPA and Mexico intend to expand the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant’s treatment capacity from 25 million gallons per day (MGD) to 35 MGD over the next 100 days.
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Multiple Mobile Systems Deployed For PFAS And Heavy Metal Removal From Contaminated Excavation Water
6/12/2025
Mellifiq has deployed a fully integrated mobile treatment solution, including sedimentation and an automated flow-controlled chemical dosing station, at a major construction site to handle heavily contaminated excavation water.