WATER TALK

Piping Gets 'Disruptive' With New Tech
“Success in this age depends not on what has worked in the past but on embracing new transformative thinking and embracing change at all levels,” says Brian Labelle of GF Piping Systems in a recent interview with Water Online radio.  Continue Reading..
Peracetic Acid Offers Single Step Treatment Of Wet Weather Flows
Many utilities are looking at peracetic acid (PAA) as a safe means to quickly treat sewer overflows when treating storm water. Because PAA, which is created by mixing peroxide with acetic acid, contains different properties than traditional chlorine compounds, it doesn’t come with chlorine-related disinfection byproducts.  Continue Reading..
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How To Improve Utility O&M With Fewer Personnel
Time is money, and the value proposition from Siemens Process Industries and Drives is to save both for utilities.  Continue Reading..
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Bio-Augmentation: Adding Bacteria To Wastewater Treatment Plants
Novozymes is the world’s largest industrial biotech company. The largest segment of the company deals with enzyme products, and they innovate products and develop applications in a variety of industries including first and second generation biofuels, bio-agriculture, detergents, and wastewater applications.  Continue Reading..
Headworks And Beyond: When Is It Time To Upgrade?
As their name implies, Headworks International Inc. deals with the mechanical aspects of primary treatment (“head of the works”), namely bar screens, but the story doesn’t end there.  Continue Reading..
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American Infrastructure Renewal: Building For The Next 100 Years
Even ductile iron pipe, which has been in the ground for a century in some cases, has an expiration date. Its strength has also been a detriment, to some degree, in that the public has taken its reliability for granted. But the time has come to pay the piper.  Continue Reading..
UV Disinfection With LEDs
UV LEDs offer the chemical free disinfection of traditional UV while avoiding mercury lamps. In certain applications where customers are concerned about the potential hazards of mercury contamination in the water from a broken lamp, UV LEDs are interesting because they don’t contain any mercury content at all.  Continue Reading..
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Chemical-Free AOP Technology
Most advanced oxidation processes require chemicals—but not Photo-Cat.  Continue Reading..
Radial Deionization—A 'Game Changer' For Water Recovery
Atlantis Technologies has developed a new desalination device, and it might just be a game changer.  Continue Reading..
Leak Detection: Catching And Monitoring Leaks As They Form
Echologics, a division of Mueller Corporation, is an acoustic company doing acoustic-based leak detection and condition assessment. Eric Stacey, Product Manager with Echologics, joined Water Online Radio for an interview to discuss Echologics’ lastest technologies.  Continue Reading..