WIP Editorial

1. Reshaping Resilience: How Tech Giants And Utilities Are Confronting The Global Water Crisis 10/30/2025

   Water scarcity is increasingly impacting sectors from agriculture and energy to urban planning and high-tech manufacturing. Recently, industry leaders gathered to explore how new technologies and complex industrial demands are forcing a fundamental rethinking of water infrastructure.

2. How Advanced Process Controls Empower Operators, Enhance Effluent Quality, Save Energy, And Reduce Emissions At WWTPs 10/30/2025

   Technology like advanced process control systems can streamline operations, create opportunities to lower costs and emissions, and ensure effluent quality meets the highest standards. Research also indicates that implementing an appropriate control strategy can help reduce N2O emissions.

3. When Chemistry Meets Water Innovation 10/30/2025

   Nobel-winning molecular materials are poised to reinvent purification, desalination, and reuse.

4. Garbage In, Insight Out: How AI Is Cleaning Up Water's Data Problem 10/24/2025
   At the Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2025 Conference in Amsterdam (Oct. 14 to 16), industry leaders discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming this fragmented data landscape, enabling utilities to move from reactionary maintenance to proactive, adaptive planning.
5. WEFTEC 2025: Water Sector Pivots Toward Resilience, AI, And Circularity 10/7/2025

   From technology breakthroughs to operator excellence, this year’s event showed water’s future is already flowing.

6. How AI Can Solve The "Silver Tsunami" And Support Small Water Utilities 10/3/2025
   While far from prolific, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the water and wastewater industry are nothing new. AI and machine learning have been used for data analytics for years. However, for small utilities and those with an aging workforce, these tools seem too high tech and costly to be practical. This doesn’t have to be the case, though. AI tools — particularly generative AI (Gen AI) and large language models (LLMs) — are able to address critical workforce shortages and resource constraints within the water and wastewater industry.
7. Extracting Water From Air: A Historical And Military Perspective 9/23/2025

   In the early 2000s, I was consulting for a military contractor on expanding their mobile water treatment system for military applications. As part of that work, I researched other water supply technologies used by the U.S. military, including atmospheric water generation (AWG) — the process of extracting potable water directly from the air.

8. What Water Utilities Need To Know About Climate Adaptation 9/18/2025
   No one knows more than water utilities how changing climate conditions are impacting the challenges and costs of delivering clean drinking water to communities they serve. In a recent episode of The Water Online Show, climate experts Jesse M. Keenan from Tulane University and Edgar Westerhof of Arcadis discussed the issue of resiliency for drinking water and wastewater systems.
9. Securing Smart Water 9/5/2025

   The digital transformation of utilities is necessary and inevitable but also innately vulnerable to bad actors. It's time to discuss prioritizing cybersecurity.

10. Megadroughts Are Here To Stay, And U.S. Water Utilities Need To Adapt 9/2/2025
    Researchers warn that California and other states affected by megadroughts — periods of drought lasting 20+ years — will have to accept this as the new normal. That means rethinking the water cycle and finding new, more sustainable water sources.