The Great Lakes Protection Fund (GLPF) and American Water Works Association (AWWA) recently announced the finalists in the Water Utility Energy Challenge...
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Sister Plants Provide Clean Water at Revolutionary War Battleground
High-quality drinking water is so taken for granted now that it’s hard to imagine the lack of good water affecting a Revolutionary...
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Wyoming Plant Targets Net Zero Energy Consumption
The first challenge for the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant was to reduce energy use by 10 percent. With that achieved, the goal...
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Organizational Merger Emphasizes 'One Water' Approach
The days of looking at water as separate entities — wastewater, drinking water, groundwater, stormwater — are rapidly fading. Consensus is forming...
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B-frame circuit breaker offers smaller footprint, installation flexibility
Water system operators are constantly on the lookout for ways to add efficiency and reduce overall footprint. The PowerPact B thermal-magnetic-type circuit...
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Water & Wastewater Product News: March 2017
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...
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Simple Solutions for Process Improvement
Sometimes it doesn’t take a major plant upgrade to drive down the nutrient content of effluent and improve overall plant performance.Bob Gabry,...
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A constant-speed pumping solution
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...
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Water & Wastewater Product News: February 2017
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....
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Where Can You Save?
Energy audits have been around for a long time, most likely since the first oil price shocks during the Jimmy Carter administration,...
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Direct Potable Reuse is Coming, but What Does It Mean for Operators?
Communities in California and Arizona could be more drought resistant in the near future, as both states are looking at enacting regulations for...
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Bringing Energy Back Home With Biogas
For years there have been two default choices for clean-water plants that produce and use digester methane: Burn it in boilers, or...
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Buying Time: How an Effluent Filter Change is Saving a City
A simple change in effluent filters at the wastewater treatment plant is saving the Indiana city of Crown Point money, time and...
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Company Puts Algae to Work with New Solids Pretreatment Process
Clean-water plants increasingly look beyond the treatment of wastewater and toward resource recovery. A variety of technologies coming to market in recent...
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News Briefs: Firefighters Rescue Utility by Pumping Town's Water With Truck
The community of Southwest Harbor, Maine, recently had a fire truck pumping its drinking water through the system after a pump failure.Firefighters...
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Oregon Plant Greases the Wheels with $16.8 Million Upgrade
The Durham Treatment Facility has used cogeneration since 1993, but the 500 kW system was too small and getting old. Serving 250,000...
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News Briefs: Sioux City Treatment Plant Management Under FBI Scrutiny
An ongoing investigation into Sioux City, Iowa’s wastewater treatment plant has led FBI agents to obtain a search warrant and seize computer...













