WATER TALK
Is UV Poised For Increased Adoption?
Disinfection can be achieved through chlorine, membranes, ozonation, or UV (among others), but the latter may be best equipped to serve the changing water treatment market.
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Changing Water Conditions Dictate 'A Shift That Is Here To Stay'
When it comes to potable water, the biggest problem is that there isn’t enough available — at least not in the drought-ridden Western states of the U.S.
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Meter Reading With 5-Minute Interval, Fraction-Of-A-Gallon Resolution Data Logging
What if your water meters contained a cellphone modem instead of an RF chip? And what if Verizon Wireless provided the wireless infrastructure for your meter reading operation? These are some of the questions Transparent Technologies Inc. (T2) grappled with in the early days of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) development.
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Meter Reading Gets Future Proofed
As John Fillinger, Director of Utility Marketing for Badger Meter explains in this Water Online Radio interview, utilities no longer need to shoulder the burden of keeping up with technological advances in IT infrastructure on their own.
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The Problem Every Utility Should Be Working To Fix
In areas with an abundance of water, leak detection isn’t always made a priority. But every utility should be working to reduce non-revenue water, says Marc Bracken, vice president and general manager of Echologics.
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Valve Automation At Water Treatment Plants
Valve automation is growing in the municipal water market fueled by increasing regulations and cost savings. It’s particularly prevalent in reverse osmosis, UV, desalination and ultra-filtration plants where there is a high concentration of process valves and pneumatic actuation taking place.
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The Intricacies Of Sand: Nature's Filter Media
Carmine Iacuone, General Manager and Billy Leiva, Marketing Project Manager for Holliston Sand, recently sat down with Water Online Radio to discuss sand filtration in the water business. The Company, which incidentally provided the sand media for the New England Patriots’ newest Astroturf field, produces numerous sizes of sand and uniformity coefficients that are integrated into both single and multi-layer filters for the water industry....
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Closed Circuit Desalination Simplifies Reverse Osmosis To Drive Down Energy Costs
As industry, agriculture and residential consumers compete for available freshwater sources, desalination continues to evolve as a viable process for increasing the available water pool. Industrial water is perhaps most critical as it accounts for as much as sixty percent of the freshwater being withdrawn in the United States today. Rising wastewater disposal costs, sustainability initiatives, and higher water efficiency standards are all...
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The Safe Drinking Water Act Turns 40: What's Next?
Rob Renner, executive director of the Water Research Foundation (WRF), talks with Water Online about the impacts of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) over the past 40 years and what is on the horizon for the drinking water sector.
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U.S Ambassador To Singapore: Every Water Tech Company Should Consider Doing Business In Southeast Asia
In a Water Online Radio first, a U.S. ambassador is interviewed by Todd and Todd. U.S. Ambassador to Singapore Kirk Wager flew in to talk about economic opportunities in the water sector between the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
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