Addressing Today’s Water Challenges With Digital Solutions
In the immediate years ahead, the water sector faces a host of significant challenges. Climate change—and with it, extreme weather events, increasing water scarcity,...
Recycling Earth’s Rapidly Shrinking Resource – Part 2 of 3
In the first part of this series, we examined some of the benefits of reusing wastewater, especially as it relates to food and beverage...
Optimizing Polymer Performance in Municipal Water Treatment
Historians have determined that one of the first recorded examples of water treatment occurred more than 4,000 years ago when the ancient Egyptians used...
The Village of Montpelier Improves Efficiency with New Gas Chlorinator System
When Bill Blakely, the water treatment superintendent of the Village of Montpelier, Ohio, commented that the village had “pretty good tasting water,” little did...
Packaged for Success
Romtec Utilities works with many high-profile industrial clients on a variety of pump and lift station projects. Currently, one of the biggest demands is...
The Right Way to Handle Low Flow
There may be instances when a building water system needs to be shut down or placed in an isolation condition, including temporary closures of...
Innovations in Domestic Water Well Products Simplify Installation, Maintenance: Part 1...
While water well drilling and pump installation contractors have access to products at local hardware stores, big box stores, or regional wholesalers, they are...
How to Control Activated Sludge with Online Sensors: Part 3 of...
Figure 3: On-Off Control Dissolved Oxygen Response (source: Meck, D., R. Odum, N. Wobbrock, Cornell University)
In the final piece of this series, we detail...
Triple Win: Part 2 of 2
In last month’s introduction to this article, the City of Riverbank, California, hired Schneider Electric to evaluate its wastewater treatment plant for energy savings...
All-Terrain Sewer Stimulates Economy of Arkansas’s Newest City
Southside contains a very rocky terrain. In some areas, the ground is clay while in others, approximately three feet of soil sit above limestone...









