$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...
View ArticleAgencies 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...
View ArticleStates 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....
View ArticlePowering 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...
View ArticleReclaimed Water And Fracking
The hydraulic fracturing process, sometimes called fracking, uses big water. While fracking seems to be making the news more recently, the process has actually been in use since the late 1940s....
View ArticleWastewater 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...
View ArticleDisinfecting 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...
View ArticleWastewater 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...
View ArticleMicrobeads 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...
View ArticleTreating Wastewater While Turning Algae into Fuel
Regulatory agencies require many wastewater treatment plants to remove nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. At the same time, there is a push to create fuel from plant sources—with algae being one...
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