Utilities and municipalities modernize communication

Herein lies the contradiction of Industry 4.0’s promise: As newer innovations bridge the gap between legacy systems and today’s smart technologies, how can we...

When shutdowns aren’t an option

Nearly two million people walk through Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium each year, drawn to the coral forests, stingray pools, shark habitats and freshwater worlds that...

Recycling Earth’s Rapidly Shrinking Resource – Part 3 of 3

In the parts 1 and 2 of this series, we examined the benefits of reusing wastewater and the biological and disinfection processes available to...

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...

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....

How to Avoid Wastewater Pump Failures

By Emily Newton  When pumps fail, site managers have to manage consequences like downtime, maintenance, and damage — as well as sewage overflow in the...

Seriously Good ROI on Septage

When investing in new equipment, what would you consider to be a reasonable payback?  Five years? Three years? At the Kishwaukee Water Reclamation District (KWRD)...

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...

Solving the Phosphorus Issue

By Rob Martindale, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group Chemical Support Systems Ltd. (CSS) has been established for thirty years as a Cheshire, United Kingdom-based electrical and...

Solving a Complex Bypass Pumping Challenge

The Godwin Dri-Prime CD400M pump contributed to an impressive maximum flow level of 707,980 gallons per hour. In October 2014, construction work began on a...