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

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)...

By Rob Martindale, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group As part of the Little Traverse Bay Environmental Project in northern Michigan, environmental consulting firm Pescador LLC treats...

PART 2/2 In part one of this article, we examined two common systems, one using compressible gasses, and the other using non-compressible liquids, that provide...

Though drinking water tends to be relatively clean compared with water that is being considered for other uses, it sometimes can contain contaminants. Air...

For industrial process facilities, membrane filtration is a valuable, commonly used means of filtering water and wastewater. The challenge is that membrane systems are...

At Valley Center Wastewater Treatment Plant, and at an increasing number of facilities across Kansas, the decision to buy the more expensive equipment at...

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...

Every wastewater treatment facility eventually faces the challenge of aging and deteriorating equipment, affecting operational efficiency. Drives struggle to keep up their power, skimmers...

There are times when a simple pump design and less maintenance are preferred by pump users, especially in messy dirty wastewater applications. Such was...