The Path to Water Innovation: Part 2 of 2
Innovation in the U.S. water industry is incremental and fragmented. In the second half of this policy brief, Ajami, Thompson, and Victor propose increasing...
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...
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...
The Right Material Makes All the Difference
There are times when a simple pump design and less maintenance are preferred by pump users, especially in messy dirty wastewater applications. Such was...
Perspectives at the Water-Energy-Climate Nexus
Afield of experts gathered to discuss climate change in the context of water and energy innovation and issues at Northwestern University's 2016 Climate Change...
Eco-Friendly Solution Takes Root Down South
Looking through the recent headlines, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has Americans throughout the country asking serious questions about the condition of their...
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...
Recycling Earth’s Rapidly Shrinking Resource
Water is required throughout a food and beverage facility for various uses, including makeup water for cooling towers and boilers, washing of equipment and...
External Heating Units Upgrade Wastewater Treatment
TasWater is the water and sewage utility for the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Owned by Tasmania’s twenty-nine local councils and the state...
Seriously Good ROI on Septage
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)...