Energy Management

The Great Lakes Protection Fund (GLPF) and American Water Works Association (AWWA) recently announced the finalists in the Water Utility Energy Challenge...

High-quality drinking water is so taken for granted now that it’s hard to imagine the lack of good water affecting a Revolutionary...

The first challenge for the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant was to reduce energy use by 10 percent. With that achieved, the goal...

The days of looking at water as separate entities — wastewater, drinking water, groundwater, stormwater — are rapidly fading. Consensus is forming...

Water system operators are constantly on the lookout for ways to add efficiency and reduce overall footprint. The PowerPact B thermal-magnetic-type circuit...

Singer Valve battery operated electromagnetic flowmeter The battery-operated SPI-MV converter from Singer Valve can run independent of an external power source for an...

Sometimes it doesn’t take a major plant upgrade to drive down the nutrient content of effluent and improve overall plant performance.Bob Gabry,...

Nidec Motor Corporation has released their new line of U.S. MOTORS-brand SINEWAVE OPTIMIZED motors for constant-speed pumping applications. The vertical hollow-shaft motors...

Blue-White hybrid diaphragm chemical metering pump The Proseries-M MD-3 hybrid diaphragm chemical metering pump from Blue-White has sonic-welded manifolds for added durability and protection from chemical leaks....

Energy audits have been around for a long time, most likely since the first oil price shocks during the Jimmy Carter administration,...

Communities in California and Arizona could be more drought resistant in the near future, as both states are looking at enacting regulations for...

For years there have been two default choices for clean-water plants that produce and use digester methane: Burn it in boilers, or...

A simple change in effluent filters at the wastewater treatment plant is saving the Indiana city of Crown Point money, time and...

Clean-water plants increasingly look beyond the treatment of wastewater and toward resource recovery. A variety of technologies coming to market in recent...

The community of Southwest Harbor, Maine, recently had a fire truck pumping its drinking water through the system after a pump failure.Firefighters...

The Durham Treatment Facility has used cogeneration since 1993, but the 500 kW system was too small and getting old. Serving 250,000...

An ongoing investigation into Sioux City, Iowa’s wastewater treatment plant has led FBI agents to obtain a search warrant and seize computer...