Water Online Highlights

31. Beyond Scope And Schedule: Why Water Utilities Need Transformational Consulting Partners 12/8/2025
    Conventional consulting engagements are often structured around responding to discrete problems: a technical fix, a compliance solution, or a tech upgrade within a narrow project scope. While this approach can resolve immediate needs, it reinforces siloed thinking and can perpetuate incrementalism. Transformation demands a shift to systems thinking.
32. Aerzen Delta Hybrid Direct Drive: A Game Changer In Blower Technology 12/7/2025

    Aerzen’s Direct Drive Delta Hybrid blower boosts aeration efficiency with an optimized rotor profile, belt-free drive, improved cooling, and expanded turndown—cutting energy costs and simplifying long-term maintenance.

33. The Final Mile: The U.S. Simply Must Rush To Finish Its Critical Lead-Pipe Cleanup 12/5/2025
    There has been an abundance of funding available to address the estimated 9.2 million lead service lines currently deliver drinking water to homes, businesses, schools, and unsuspecting citizens throughout the United States. So it is disheartening to realize that millions of lead water lines are still delivering water to citizens.
34. Resolving Odor Complaints With Targeted Solutions Restore Community Confidence 12/5/2025

    The South Dearborn Regional Sewer District in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, provides regional wastewater treatment services for three cities and an international distillery. The 6 mgd treatment plant is located in an area of high population growth and is surrounded by many retail operations and other commercial developments. In addition, a heavily traveled state highway runs by the treatment plant.

35. Rural North Texas Community Cuts Non-Revenue Water By 42% With Pipeline Leak Detection Technology 12/5/2025

    Discover how a city solved its non-revenue water challenge by rapidly pinpointing three hard-to-find leaks in 13 miles of aging pipeline using a free-swimming acoustic tool.

36. 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.
37. Colorado Utility Removes PFCS From Well With Xylem's Ion Exchange System 12/5/2025

    Perfluoro compounds (PFCs), which are suspected carcinogens, are a growing concern for communities and a challenge that many water utilities need to address. When the Stratmoor Hills Water District detected PFCs in a seasonal well, the utility partnered with Evoqua, a Xylem company, to find a cost-effective solution.

38. 3 Utilities Turning Wastewater Into Opportunity With Advanced Treatment And Reuse 12/5/2025

    Read about three of the most pressing wastewater challenges utilities face today and how Stratmoor Hills, Key West Resort Utilities, and Beijing Water Group are using advanced treatment and reuse to overcome them.

39. Governments Need To Prepare For More Frequent Large Floods 12/5/2025
    While many scientific and technical reports show that floods are becoming larger and more common, reports underestimate how their frequency is changing. Flood sizes get the spotlight, but governments and experts need to also consider their frequency to address implications overlooked by traditional management methods.
40. Impact Of Improved Actuation On Filter Performance 12/4/2025

    A water filtration treatment plant was built in 1950, pneumatic actuators were installed on all of the filter control valves. The pneumatic actuators were not always reliable. Air compressor problems limited the availability of the pneumatics to control the filter valves.