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Wastewater treatment plants in many American communities are doing more than treating sewage – they’re also producing renewable energy. According to new data released today from the American Biogas Council, 1,200 wastewater treatment plants across the United States currently capture and use biogas produced from wastewater sludge. That means wastewater treatment plants account for nearly half of the approximately 2,600 biogas facilities of all types operating in the United States today.

The global policy framework for industrial wastewater treatment is undergoing a fundamental transformation, escalating from mere "compliance discharge" to mandatory "resource recovery" and "zero liquid discharge."

In Denmark, industry's absolute water consumption was almost at the same level in 2022 as in 2012, according to an analysis from the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV).

John Crane, a global leader in flow-control technologies and an innovator in solutions for rotating equipment, and a business of Smiths Group plc, has helped a German sugar producer reduce the water required for mechanical seal cooling and lubrication by approximately 80%. Across a full six-month production season, the reduction is equivalent to saving more than 6.2 million litres of water. 

Industrie De Nora S.p.A. (“De Nora”) – an Italian multinational listed on Euronext Milan, specialized in electrochemistry, water treatment systems and sustainable solutions – through De Nora Singapore Pte. Ltd. (formerly BW Water Pte. Ltd., recently acquired by De Nora), has been awarded a contract by a leading international player to build an industrial wastewater treatment plant for a new semiconductor facility in Southeast Asia.

Works are underway at Uisce Éireann's innovative wastewater treatment project in Grangemockler, which will provide a new nature-based wastewater treatment plant that will support sustainable growth while protecting the local environment.