WIP Editorial

1. AI, Data Centers, And Water 11/25/2025
   Amid the AI-fueled gold rush, more leaders are beginning to pay attention to the short- and long-term natural resource concerns, especially around all the water needed to keep data centers running.
2. Is This The End Of Affordable Water? 11/24/2025
   Water pricing often fails to reflect scarcity, quality, or long-term risk, forcing companies to act internally. But this action is not being done in a vacuum. The ripple effect of internal water pricing is bound to impact water utilities, and ultimately, ratepayers and consumers.
3. HAAs In The EU: Monitoring For Haloacetic Acids Under The Drinking Water Directive 11/7/2025
   In this Q&A, Dr. Elke Süss of Metrohm addresses the urgent need for haloacetic acid testing in response to “one of the most significant updates to EU drinking water monitoring in recent years.”
4. Building Institutional Memory: Connecting Infrastructure Design And Operations 11/6/2025

   As water utilities face unprecedented challenges driven by climate change and the need for adaptive planning, the traditional separation between capital design work and ongoing operational performance is rapidly becoming unsustainable. Thankfully, connected digital tools are breaking down these barriers.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

8. 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.
9. 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.

10. 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.