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A new nationwide survey of U.S. wastewater facilities reveals opportunities to expand the production of renewable energy from wastewater, make greater use of existing digesters, and put more organic waste to productive use.

Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, today announced the launch of the PowerLogic Source Controller, the next-generation automatic transfer switch controller from ASCO Power Technologies. This new controller is built for hospitals, data centers, water treatment plants, and other mission-critical facilities. It succeeds ASCO’s Group 5 platform and consolidates metering, source status, and controls into a single interface.

As utilities tackle persistent micropollutants, expand water reuse and meet more demanding treatment requirements, advanced oxidation is being asked to solve problems conventional approaches were not designed to address.

Excess fluoride in water is a persistent environmental and public health concern in many parts of the world. Now, researchers have developed a new plant-derived material that can capture fluoride efficiently while also creating value from invasive plant biomass.

“Is there enough water? What’s happening with climate change? How do I operate my hydro plant? In a world of water problems, there are problems that we need a good model to solve,” says Colin Gleason, a hydrologist in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. But the models are only as good as the math that they’re based on, and, short of measuring every river in the world, there is no way to check this on a global scale.

According to latest research by Growth Market Reports, the global recalcitrant wastewater treatment market size reached USD 13.7 billion in 2025, driven by the increasing prevalence of persistent organic pollutants and tightening environmental regulations worldwide.