Removing pharmaceuticals from water supplies
The current EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is more than thirty years old, and it has made dramatic improvements to the water quality in...
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...
St. Bernard Parish Combats Brain-eating Amoeba with Fifty Automatic Flushing Units
By Mark Magda, Mueller Water Products
St. Bernard Parish is situated southeast of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana. In 2005, hurricane Katrina caused...
Odor and Corrosion Control in Wastewater Collection Systems: Part 2 of...
In part 1 of this series, we discussed the corrosion issues associated with hydrogen sulfide in wastewater collection systems. The main classes of reactions...
A Clear Advantage: Smart Materials for the Construction of Water Filters
Clean water for everyone. Two innovative companies from Saxony-Anhalt have dedicated themselves to this aim: Carbonit Filtertechnik GmbH from the Dambeck district of Salzwedel...
Increasing Efficiency at an Effluent Treatment Plant
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group’s Qdos peristaltic pump technology is delivering a significant reduction in maintenance time—from 1.5 hours to just five minutes—at the local...
A World in Crisis Needs Safe Water
By Dominic Sims, International Code Council
Although 70 percent of our planet is covered with water, less than one percent is drinkable. Clean water is...
An Affordable Approach to Smart Technology
By Dave Johnston, Mueller Water Products
Water-industry press naturally covers the broadest and brightest promises of the digital revolution. Unfortunately, that big-picture view can often...
Wastewater System Restart or Initial Startup?
In the world of wastewater these days, there are many challenges that will occur. Some you may have already seen and some may appear...
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...