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EPA Requests Comments on Industrial Wastewater Effluent Plan
Every two years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) must publish a plan about revising existing effluent limitations and possible new industrial wastewater limits. U.S. EPA has...
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A Toolbox For Water-Wastewater Operator Training
The exodus of experienced water and wastewater operators is becoming all too real for many utility managers. As Baby-Boomers retire, filling their shoes at treatment plants becomes ever more...
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Microbeads Escape Wastewater Treatment Process
Some skin care products, body wash lotions and toothpastes contain hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic beads. These microbeads, 0.5 to 500 micrometers in diameter, can pass through wastewater...
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Wastewater Nutrients Used For Good
Regulatory agencies are forcing many utilities to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from their wastewater plants. These nutrients can cause algae blooms and lead to eutrophication in receiving streams if...
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Disinfecting Wastewater Effluent With Peracetic Acid
In October 2011, the City of St. Augustine, Florida owned the first domestic wastewater plant in the U.S. to permanently use peracetic acid as a disinfectant. Other utilities, including Largo, Florida...
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EPA’s New Blueprint For Water Technology Innovation
In 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a six-page Blueprint for Implementing Technology Innovation into the National Water Program. This report briefly discussed ten areas where...
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Wastewater System Operators Battle Baby Wipes
Across the continent, unsung heroes are waging an underground war. Wastewater technicians and operators are fighting an onslaught of wipes—baby wipes, personal wipes, disinfectant wipes and more. Some...
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Powering Water-Wastewater Treatment With The Sun
It’s a well-known fact that water and wastewater treatment plants hog energy. To improve sustainability and lower costs, many treatment plants are going solar. Paying for Solar Power Systems Solar...
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States Try To Nullify EPA Regulations
Water and wastewater utilities are constantly barraged with new regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Many of these rules are absolutely necessary to protect the environment....
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Agencies Use DNA Testing To Target Fecal Coliform Pollution
U.S. state and federal regulatory agencies are turning to CSI-type investigative techniques to find the source of fecal coliform in polluted waterways. Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection...
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Preparing Warm-Weather Water Systems For The Polar Vortex
The Polar Vortex swooped down again in January, bringing frigid air, snow and ice storms much further south than typical weather patterns. While those in the northern climes bear the worst of the...
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$600 Billion Water Industry Offers Profitable Opportunities
Lux Research announced on January 21, 2014 the availability of a new report that is part of the Lux Research Water Intelligence service. The report, titled “Making Money in the Water Industry”, reveals...
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Bear Republic Brewery To Use EcoVolt Wastewater Reuse System
Cambrian Innovation, a water and bioenergy technology provider, announced this week that Bear Republic Brewing Company will be using an EcoVolt water treatment system at Bear Republic’s brewery in...
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Alcoa Will Commercialize Engineered Wetlands Technology
Alcoa announced last week an agreement with Bauer Resources GmbH, a German engineering and construction company, to commercialize Alcoa’s Natural Engineered Wastewater Treatment technology that mimics...
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Growing Momentum for Water and Wastewater Market in Textiles
Frost & Sullivan announced last week the availability of new analysis that shows that the rising demand for textile and leather products is creating momentum for the water and wastewater treatment...
View ArticleU.S. Water Treatment Chemicals Market to Grow 3.2% Annually
Freedonia published a new study, titled Water Treatment Chemicals, that forecasts demand for water treatment chemicals in the U.S. will rise 3.2% per year to $6.6 billion in 2017. Higher investment in...
View ArticleIntel Recycles 60% of its Water in Chandler, Arizona
Bloomberg reported on September 15, 2013 that two million gallons of industrial wastewater are sent each day from Intel plants in Chandler, Arizona, to a facility a mile away where the wastewater is...
View ArticleEPA Resources on Wastewater Treatment Technology
In case you were not aware of it, the U.S. EPA has a webpage on wastewater treatment technology publications. The webpage was last updated in May 2013 and provides the following guides: Emerging...
View ArticleAxine Tests Wastewater Treatment That Uses No Chemicals
Axine Water Technologies, developers of a chemical-free solution for treating toxic organic pollutants in industrial wastewater, announced on June 27, 2013 the successful conclusion of six months of...
View ArticleAlcoa Announces Wastewater Management System in Saudi Arabia
Alcoa and The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) announced on May 28, 2013 the completion of an engineered wetlands wastewater management system in Saudi Arabia at the Ma’aden-Alcoa joint venture...
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