Editorial Articles

After the Clean Water Act, the Colorado cities of Littleton and Englewood abandoned their wastewater treatment plants and joined to build a...

Karen Lewis needed a change. She wasn’t unhappy with her job in Florida’s pest control industry, but was looking for a position...

Stop in to see Wes Adams at work and you might find him tending the wastewater lagoon system on the edge of...

The Pikes Peak Children’s Water Festival was created in 2017 for fourth and fifth graders because “The children in our community are...

Aqua-Aerobic Systems announces three promotions Aqua-Aerobic is pleased to announce the following personnel promotions. Joe Tardio was promoted to vice president, sales and...

Proper and optimized chemical metering or dosing at wastewater plants reduces waste and makes more efficient use of expensive treatment chemicals. A...

In water treatment-related applications, peristaltic pumps play an important role because they’re suitable not only with chemical substances used in these treatments,...

OZ Lifting Products wireless hoist options OZ Lifting Products offers wireless control options for its electric chain hoists and electric builder’s hoists with capacities...

WASTEWATER By Rick LallishWhat factor should be considered when calibrating dissolved oxygen instruments?A. Water viscosityB. Barometric pressureC. Effluent BODD. Effluent TSSAnswer: B. When calibrating a dissolved oxygen...

News about PFAS in a community’s drinking water can trigger fear in the public. To no surprise, reports of potential health effects...

Aeration is typically the largest cost for activated sludge treatment plant operation and is a common target for efficiency initiatives. The most common...

The Idaho city of Eagle has stayed with lagoons for wastewater treatment even as growth has exploded. This affluent suburb of Boise has...

An Ohio city’s initiative to reduce fugitive methane emissions at a wastewater treatment plant sprang from environmental concern, but will pay economic...

Concern about PFAS in biosolids led to a ban on land application in Maine enacted in 2022. That sent municipalities and clean-water...

The Crescenta Valley Water District created a science fiction competition for middle and high school students to imagine a world without water...

Barbara Chappell grew up as the youngest of three girls. “Dad figured out he wasn’t going to have a boy, so I was...

It’s a long way from working in an auto parts store to directing the water and wastewater utilities in the northern Alberta...

Most days are pretty smooth in the laboratory where Heidi Birdsell works. But if a test of a wastewater sample plant indicates something...

PEOPLE/AWARDS The Sarasota (California) County project to expand and convert the Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility to advanced wastewater treatment earned a Gold...