Editorial Articles

Dosage control allows for treatment optimization Unforeseen problems often lead to disastrous, expensive consequences in a wastewater treatment environment. However, technological advancements are...

Patterson davit cranes New davit cranes are available from corrosive-environment and safety expert, Patterson. Give your operations a lift with models in 1/2-...

Integrated software platform streamlines compliance and protects data integrity ProblemRiverside (California) Public Utilities was using different platforms to manage data, including programs for water-quality...

Analytical Instrumentation SHIMADZU SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS LCMS-8060NXThe LCMS-8060NX triple quadrupole liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments offers suitable sensitivity and acquisition speeds,...

WASTEWATER By Rick LallishWhere can an operator look to find specific laboratory procedures and the proper compliance for those procedures?A. NPDES permitB. Wastewater textbooks, such...

It seems water is a lot more important and integral to life than we routinely think.Some years ago, scientists began talking about...

Biosolids management challenges clean-water plants in a variety of areas — cost, energy efficiency, resource recovery, product quality, odor control and more. A...

Water recycling is seeing growth in familiar places and expansion into new areas. Helping to push it along is the WateReuse Association,...

If your head spins after reading how amazing one level measurement method is versus another, it may help you to understand the...

“I used to dread coming here,” says Mitch Puckett, director of the water and sewer department in Madisonville, Texas. He’s talking about Lift Station...

Paso Robles, California, made a plan in 2013 to go to tertiary wastewater and then recycling, but the city didn’t intend to...

Heather Phillips has seen the clean-water business from two key perspectives. She started her career with a major engineering consultancy. A dozen years...

How do you accommodate a two-year upgrade of a treatment plant, change over to new processes, keep staff abreast and involved, and...

When Ted Meckes graduated from college, he found a job with the water utility in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. He never left...

There’s nothing like a little competition to help people discover the careers available in the water sector. With that in mind, the Prince...

People/Awards Naperville’s Springbrook Water Reclamation Center received the 2019 Group One Best Operated Wastewater Treatment Works Award from the Illinois Association of Water...

Grundfos’ Swetye added to board of Hydraulic InstituteGrundfos announced the appointment of Jim Swetye, technical training manager, to serve on the board...

Flomatic Valves Flo-E-Centric plug valves Flomatic Valves’ Series 5400 Flo-E-Centric plug valves are energy-efficient, round-port, eccentric, quarter-turn plug valves designed in compliance with AWWA...

Heavy metal contamination in drinking water poses a threat to humans and can be linked to various severe health issues such as...