WATER TALK
Making The Most Of Our Pipelines
As pipelines from bygone eras have started to fail and we have entered what many consider an asset management crisis, many believe it’s a matter of aging infrastructure. Travis Wagner, vice president of asset management with Pure Technologies’ engineering division, takes a different view.
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Tips For Overcoming Climate Change
It’s possible that no field stands to be as dramatically affected by climate change as water and wastewater treatment.
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A Better Understanding Of Desalination
As an expert on utility resiliency for a changing climate, John Batten, Global Water & Cities Director for ARCADIS, discusses the prospects of desalination for bolstering U.S. water supplies.
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The Next Stage Of Treatment: Water Resource Recovery
David St. Pierre takes “waste” out of the term “wastewater,” leading by example as executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD). Here he shares MWRD’s initiatives and his vision of the future.
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Keeping Your Eye On The Bugs
As the industry’s most common and affordable method, biological treatment lies at the heart of the wastewater cleaning process. Treatment plants harness the power of nature by utilizing organisms that accelerate nutrient removal, eliminating carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
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Water Controls Benefit From Close Systems Integrator - Manufacturer Relationship
Primex Controls is a full-service, system-integration company that builds everything from small, pump control panels to full-blown SCADA systems for water plants that serve 50-60 million people. In this Water Online Radio interview, John Buesgens, Business Development Manager with Primex, and Blair Sooley, Account Manager with Trihedral, talk about the value of the vendor integrator relationship for utilities.
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Water Service Shut Offs Without The Confrontation
Turning off water service for non-payment is one of the hardest parts of the job for utility workers. It can also be dangerous as agitated consumers can become verbally and sometimes physically abusive seeing their water service shut off. A new remotely-controlled meter helps remove workers from the chance of physical confrontation.
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Big Pipe, Big Consequences
When you go really big on pipe, the stakes get higher. Maintenance and energy costs can easily skyrocket, and failure on components such as valves is not an option.
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Considerations When Buying A Storage Tank
When some people think of a water tank, they think it’s very simple. However, as Rosemarie Bristol, a marketing and sales manager with American Structures, told Water Online, there are many factors that should be taken into consideration, in addition to the budget.
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Band-Aids Or Permanent Repairs For Pipes?
If you go onto the internet you can quickly find that the U.S. has more than one million miles of water main pipe buried in the ground somewhere in this country. That is enough water pipe to go around world more than three times.
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