Water scarcity in the United States and worldwide makes reliability in wastewater treatment plants all the more urgent.Cold weather poses serious challenges to treatment plants. In particular, freezing temperatures can jeopardize the piping infrastructures that enable plants to produce clean water. Piping systems are like a plant’s circulatory system.Damage to one pipe can lead to a cascading effect on the entire infrastructure. Given the complexity of treatment systems, the isolation and repair or replacement of a single damaged pipe can require an expensive, time-consuming shutdown of machinery.Today, thanks to modern-day freeze protection technologies, such as heat trace cables, treatment plants
