Laboratory Analysis

Yeast are generally rare in biological wastewater treatment processes, but may enter the treatment processes through the influent, sludge return side-streams, or...

Tiffany Poole holds a personal credo of paying it forward.“My favorite task is mentorship and empowerment of employees,” says Poole, supervising environmental...

Eickelboom morphotype Beggiatoa is readily recognizable due to its large diameter (2-4 µm) and its slow-gliding motility. Sometimes septa (cross-walls) may be...

Arizona State University and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey recently announced that the university will lead a multiyear Arizona Water Innovation Initiative to...

A suctorian is a protozoa from the order Suctoria, which includes both saltwater and freshwater organisms. Suctoria are widely distributed in nature and...

The Eickelboom filament morphotype commonly recognized as Haliscomenobacter hydrossis has a long and somewhat mysterious history. Its recognized growth cause has changed from...

Nostocoida limicola filament types are commonly associated with filamentous bulking in biological wastewater treatment systems throughout the world. Literature such as the 3rd...

Danny Locco is a man of many talents. His diverse training, education and varied positions in the water treatment industry make him...

Mobile pilot treatment units are set up on site and operated by experienced personnel under a range of conditions to ensure the...

Joga Chizer had no kind of background for the clean-water industry. As an immigrant, he wanted a job. He found an opportunity...

Daphnia are a genus of crustaceans, and while they are rare in activated sludge processes, they are commonly found in wastewater lagoon...

Eickelboom 021N filament types are commonly recognized to cause and contribute to sludge bulking in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment facilities. The morphological characteristics...

Fungi at low levels are common or insignificant and often incidental visitors to wastewater treatment processes, although at higher abundance fungi may indicate...

Eickelboom filament type 1863 is most commonly observed dispersed in solution or occasionally near the edges of the floc at 1000x oil-immersion...

The unique properties of the atom-thick sheet of carbon known as graphene have enabled a new penny-sized, multiplexed bio-sensor that’s the first to...

Gastrotrich are invertebrates occasionally found in wastewater treatment systems. Generally their presence indicates good overall health, and they tend to occur in...

A gene that causes bacteria to be resistant to one of the world’s most important antibiotics, colistin, has been detected in sewer...