Wastewater Treatment News

  1. Fighting The Foam: Scientists Discover "Dark Matter" Solution 6/17/2025

    Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) often struggle with foaming in treatment tanks. Foaming, particularly from stable foams, can disrupt biological processes and often need costly chemicals to control.

  2. Aquacycl Netherlands BV Delivers Scalable Onsite Wastewater Treatment To Meet EU Regulations Without Tariff Disruption 6/17/2025

    Industrial processes are responsible for 30%-50% of water withdrawals, consumption and discharge around the world.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.