Water 101: A Primer for the Primacy of Water

By Anna Kučírková If you’re reading this, water is probably easily available to you. You may even have a bottle of water sitting right next...

Reclaiming Water – Building The Future

Fargo, North Dakota, sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North and serves as the industrial, as well as cultural,...

Clean Energy from Landfill Diversion Plus the Bonus of Biochar

Biochar is the carbon-rich product that is left over after the completion of the gasification process. (photo credit: Dillon Fuller) Lebanon, Tennessee, is located twenty-five miles...

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...

Energy-Efficient Aeration for the New Century: Part 2 of 2

Aeration accounts for a 50 to 70 percent of a treatment plant’s power consumption, and in part 1 of this series, we examined the...

Movin’ Up the Sewer Line Just Got Easier

For the municipalities and contractors that clean endless miles of sewer lines, the goal has always been to clean more with less effort and...

The What and Why of Surge Transients

By Reinaldo Pinto, Applied Flow Technology One of the toughest aspects of hydraulic system design is accepting that a system cannot always operate at steady...

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...

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...

Don’t Just Settle With Poor Water Pressure

Households all over the world deal with water pressure fluctuations on a daily basis. Depending on the amount of water being used within the...