Busting sewer maintenance myths

Sewer maintenance is an ongoing challenge for cities and municipalities. Moreover, gaps in best practice training can cost public works departments unnecessary time and...

Expanding population demands more than collaboration

Growth, progress, prosperity. There’s no shortage of it in North Alabama, which has seen its population grow by 30,000 over the last five years...

Innovative Technology Improves Residential Water Management: Part 1 of 2

The University of Texas at Austin power plants provide heating and air conditioning for two hundred buildings totaling over one-hundred million cubic feet of...

Keeping the Water Where You Want It in Tunnel Construction

By Pablo Garcia, Sulzer As well as rock and soil, major tunneling projects involve the movement of large volumes of another important element: water. The...

External Heating Units Upgrade Wastewater Treatment

TasWater is the water and sewage utility for the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Owned by Tasmania’s twenty-nine local councils and the state...

Eco-friendly Cost Reduction Through Anaerobic Sludge Stabilization

By Ann Börries, Weltec Biopower Following a public tender procedure, Weltec Biopower was awarded the contract for an anaerobic stage for the municipal sewage treatment...

How to Select the Most Effective Blower Technology for Wastewater Applications:...

In the first part of this series, we examined turbo, hybrid, and combination blower technologies and addressed the most effective technology for particular applications....

The Water/Wastewater System Manager’s Guide to Remote Telemetry and Remote Maintenance:...

By Dave Eifert and Eike Wedekind, Phoenix Contact Just a few years ago, it was extremely difficult to monitor and maintain distributed stations. The reason...

CIP Guidelines for Filter Membrane System Cleaning

Across both water treatment and chemical processing plants, keeping equipment clean is one of the keys to achieving a manufacturer’s promised efficiency standards and...

The Path to Water Innovation: Part 2 of 2

Innovation in the U.S. water industry is incremental and fragmented. In the second half of this policy brief, Ajami, Thompson, and Victor propose increasing...