Education and Training

Water-quality professionals are confirming what fishermen and boaters on U.S. waterways already know: Nutrient pollution is increasingly damaging the water environment.In its...

WASTEWATERA rotating biological contactor (RBC) wastewater treatment plant experiences a utility power failure and standby power is unavailable. Local emergency management officials...

People/AwardsEd Watt retired from the Hamilton County (Tennessee) Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Board of Commissioners after 24 years.The city of Sandpoint...

A study by scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology recently discovered that around $1.8 million in gold,...

Linde introduced the OZORA oxygen recovery system — designed to sharply reduce oxygen consumption during production of ozone — at WEFTEC. The...

Twenty-five water utilities selected for leadership in community engagement, watershed stewardship and resource recovery received Utility of the Future Today recognition at...

The Boards of Directors for the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) and Water Research Foundation (WRF) have voted unanimously to integrate...

An act of water treatment plant vandalism recently left 2,000 residents in Crow Agency, Montana, without clean water and caused $1 million...

Federal environmental officials have their eye on Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, after finding rats and a frog in water treatment processes...

Mentorship is the key to developing a new generation to replace the retiring wave of water and wastewater professionals.That was the theme...

In 2013, Thames Water in England found a bus-sized lump of fat in a sewer. The 15-ton obstruction of food fat and wet...

A brewery in Denver, Colorado, has announced plans to brew and blind taste-test beer made with recycled water.Lone Tree Brewing Co. recently...

Police, firefighters and several other departments and businesses in Gary, Indiana, recently practiced responding to a mock water treatment plant disaster.The mock...

Alaska The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is offering: Oct. 3-5 — Introduction to Small Treated Water Systems, Bethel Oct. 4-5 — Pump Repair & Maintenance, Anchorage Oct....

We live in a connected world. Nearly everyone has a pocket device that can feed them any information they desire.Knowing this, the...

WASTEWATER:The operator of an extended-aeration activated sludge treatment facility running at a 10-day solids retention time (SRT) completes a monthly microscopic examination...

People/AwardsThe Carnation Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by King County (Washington) earned a Platinum Peak Performance Award from the National Association of Clean...