Editorial Articles

Pump tubing GORE High-Resilience Style 400 pump tubing from W.L. Gore & Associates features a VITON fluoroelastomer composite with reinforcement technology, enabling the...

SB Hurricane swing-bolt filters from Harmsco Filtration Products feature cyclonic flow and a two-stage housing that separates solids prior to filtration for...

At Mount Vernon, Ind., the raw water intake pipe was held together with (literally) bubble gum and duct tape, the filtration backwash...

Self-cleaning screen filter The Amiad EBS automatic self-cleaning screen filter delivers reliable, nearly maintenance-free protection of downstream membranes, disinfection systems or water reuse...

The Red River is best known for periodic floods that afflict North Dakota, most notably around Grand Forks. Much farther south, in...

From placing first in the national Top Ops competition four times since 2006, to implementing a water recovery program, the Palm Coast...

Producing a reliable supply of clean, safe water was not enough for the City of Rockville (Md.) Water Treatment Plant. The city...

Water system operators have challenging roles, especially since they work daily with our most critical and valuable resource. Operators must efficiently maintain...

Water plant laboratories seek to balance speed and accuracy in sampletesting — accuracy of course being paramount. The optimum testing protocols are...

When the Municipal Water District of Orange County (Calif.) wants to spread the word about water conservation and quality, it can count...

PEOPLE/AWARDS Charlie Jones, director of operations at Iowa American Water, was named 2011 Customer Service Hero by the Iowa Section of the American...

Formulation consumes organic solids Problem Biosolids buildup in the anaerobic lagoons at the Mount Olive (N.C.) Wastewater Treatment Plant was lowering storage capacity. Solution Operators removed...

When a pilot test showed that a new post-aeration system was increasing dissolved oxygen by 70 percent while using 75 percent less...

Like many people living in one of the nation’s fastest growing counties, the DeSoto County Regional Utility Authority is a relative newcomer...

Concentrations of hydrogen sulfide at the headworks of the Rancocas Road Treatment Facility in Mount Holly, N.J., reached 100 parts per million...

Reclaiming wastewater for reuse in irrigation is a great and increasingly widespread policy. But what if no one is signing up to...

ITT Spins Off Xylem and ITT Exelis ITT Corp. established Exelis Inc., the company’s defense and information solutions business, as ITT Exelis and...

My first clean-water-related job was with a metro agency looking to win public acceptance for its biosolids land application program, which had...

I think there may be an imaginary place — a time or a crossroad of life — where some of us unconsciously...