Water Online Highlights

  1. Dolphin Sighting In NYC River Bodes Well For Water Quality 3/17/2025

    Recent sightings of two common dolphins in New York City's East River have generated excitement and are viewed by experts as a positive indicator of improving water quality.

  2. World Water Day 2025: Sustainable Efforts To Protect Glaciers And Freshwater Sources 3/17/2025

    World Water Day 2025’s theme is ‘Glacier Preservation’, placing a spotlight on these historic ice masses and their importance. While we know that deglaciation is an obvious indicator of the earth’s warming temperatures, what is the importance of glaciers and their impact on the water industry?

  3. A Paradigm Shift In Reservoir Management 3/14/2025

    Reservoir managers are utilizing a risk management framework along with innovative metrics to address the root causes of lake degradation, including eutrophication, hypoxia, and harmful algal blooms.

  4. Challenges In Repairing Leaking Pipes In Aging Urban Water Systems 3/14/2025

    Worldwide, nations are tackling critical infrastructure. Many of these systems are reaching the end of their lifecycles, leading to pollution, water waste, and inefficiencies. Water and wastewater employees carry a monumental burden in retrofitting and upgrading these mechanisms at such immense scales. Fortunately, solutions are available to expedite the work and better citizens' lives.

  5. Future of Water Reuse Forum Draws Proficient Water Experts 3/14/2025
    With a mass of industry professionals in town for a historic groundbreaking, El Paso Water seized the opportunity to host the Future of Water Reuse Forum and contemplate the future of water supply.
  6. Trump's Funding Freeze And The Fate Of The Colorado River 3/13/2025

    For years, the fate of the Colorado River has been a point of contention amongst lawmakers and environmentalists. Now, amid the Trump administration’s flurry of new regulations, the river’s future is further up for debate.

  7. DuraFiber™ Prefab Buildings 3/12/2025

    High-quality, fiberglass-reinforced buildings protect industrial equipment such as pumps and motors, controls, electronics, and chemicals. Our prefab buildings don’t rot, rust, dent, or conduct electricity, and they are ideal for a wide range of environmental conditions.

  8. Prelos Sewer™ 3/12/2025

    Prelos™ provides an efficient, affordable, and sustainable sewer solution for the thousands of towns across the country in need of sewer infrastructure, whether it’s new, an expansion, a repair, or replacement.

  9. Double Belts, Double Suspenders: How El Paso Is Implementing Direct Potable Reuse 3/12/2025
    The city of El Paso, TX, has always known that water is precious. After its public utility, El Paso Water, previously piloted a direct potable reuse (DPR) plant to turn agricultural irrigation wastewater into drinking water, the city is now ready to begin construction of a full-scale, 10-MGD DPR facility.
  10. A New Way To Measure Phytoplankton And Cyanotoxin Producers In Large Rivers 3/12/2025

    Aquatic ecosystems, especially rivers, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, can have variable levels of biological productivity that is directly proportional to their nutrient levels, or “trophic state”. Monitoring trophic state is critical to the protection of water resources. Among the many methods for monitoring, phytoplanktonic (microscopic algae) composition and abundance can comprehensively indicate the trophic status.