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...

A Holistic Approach to Process Control

Secondary wastewater treatment, specifically activated sludge treatment, can be broken down into a series of unit processes, each of which are linked to the...

Peach Lake Finds a Solution for a Dying Septic System

It only took a few generations and several hundred dying septic systems to age an idyllic vacation spot like Peach Lake. Peach Lake is a...

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...

Snack Attack Continues for Hungry Chopper Pumps

Chopper pumps routinely are tasked with handling difficult media, heavy loads, and tough conditions. If you want to compete in this sector of the...

Challenges of Low Boron Removal Requirements in Large-scale Seawater Desalination Plants...

In part 1 of this series, we began a discussion of a seawater desalination process that takes the boron removal issue to the edge,...

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...

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Around the world, private companies and government agencies are looking to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their activities, including increasing their...

Electronic Water Treatment Reduces Fouling in Reverse Osmosis

Reverse osmosis (RO) is used in processes requiring high-quality, purified water, such in semi-conductor processing or biochemical applications and can be used to treat...

Solving Sludge With the Sun

A newly-designed wastewater treatment plant is using an age-old source in a unique application for wastewater treatment. The plant in Sanford, Florida, and several other...