Water Online Highlights

31. Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts Of Water — Companies Rarely Tell The Public Exactly How Much 8/28/2025

    As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water. Data centers use water directly, with cooling water pumped through pipes in and around the computer equipment. They also use water indirectly, through the water required to produce the electricity to power the facility.

32. UV Treatment Upgrades In Wales 8/26/2025

    In order to improve the treatment performance (because of the continued cost to maintain compliance), and ensure that it would eventually have the treatment capacity to meet future population growth equivalent of up to 225,000, Swansea WwTW was in need of an equipment upgrade.

33. SORB FX, Contaminant Removal For PFAS 8/25/2025

    SORB FX systems deliver powerful PFAS removal in a compact, easy-to-operate design—ideal for small utilities seeking fast deployment, low maintenance, and proven contaminant control.

34. PFAS Pilots: Strategic Planning To Reduce Risk And Optimize Costs 8/25/2025

    Learn why piloting PFAS treatment is essential to reduce risk, optimize costs, and ensure compliance—plus the seven key steps to design a pilot that delivers reliable, real-world results.

35. AI Could Solve America's Infrastructure Problem. Institutions Need To Let Engineers Use It. 8/25/2025
    The state of America’s crumbling infrastructure continues to be a perennial concern as the scale of the problem continually outpaces both the funding and the human resources needed to solve it. Engineers have the solution — AI systems that offer unprecedented speed and potential cost savings — but to leverage its full potential, engineers need to take on a new role — and potentially a new business model.
36. Colorado's Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury — That's A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies 8/25/2025

    The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are crucial for regulating the supply of clean water from the highlands to metropolitan regions downslope, including Denver. However, new research shows the wetlands also harbor a health risk.

37. Water Conservation And Reuse For Data Centers 8/25/2025
    Because of our own decades-long mismanagement of our collective global water resources, we are now facing a global freshwater crisis where the demand for freshwater is predicted to exceed its supply by 40% by the year 2030. Directly coinciding with the water crisis timeline is the growing need for data center construction in order to accommodate AI, cloud computing, and other Big Data and IoT processing.
38. Grand Canyon's Dragon Bravo Megafire Shows The Growing Wildfire Threat To Water Systems 8/22/2025

    As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic. A chlorine gas leak had erupted from the park’s water treatment facility as the building burned, forcing firefighters to pull back. The water treatment facility is part of a system that draws water from a fragile spring. The fire also damaged some of the area’s water pipes and equipment.

39. ABCs Of Water Reuse Brings Clarity And Creativity To Public Outreach 8/21/2025

    In this episode of The Water Online Show, Angela Godwin sits down with Diana Leonard, Communications Director at Carollo Engineers, to discuss The ABCs of Water Reuse—a colorful new educational book designed to make complex engineering concepts accessible to the public.

40. Building Resilient Utilities Through Living Emergency Plans 8/21/2025

    At the AWWA ACE Convention in Denver, Angela Godwin sits down with Shawn Corrigan of Carollo to unpack the importance of emergency planning and resilience in the water industry.