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Rapid, unplanned urbanization is becoming a serious threat across the world, because it puts major stress on critical infrastructure such as water...

Nidec Motor inverter duty vertical TEFC motors Nidec Motor’s vertical totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC) inverter duty motors are for use on turbine,...

New U.S. air emission regulations have a significant impact on the chemical and refining industry’s wastewater treatment operations. Similar rules apply to...

A team of marine scientists, a mussel farmer and youth volunteers in New York City recently stocked a raft with ribbed mussels...

Testifying before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment recently, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) highlighted successes in the water sector’s response...

The iron dynamics facility of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) has an 800 gpm cooling water loop that makes direct contact with flue...

REXA’s president and CEO to retire, new leadership announcedREXA’s president and CEO, Sam Lalos, announced his plans to retire at the end...

Drinking water treatment plants face the ongoing challenge of optimizing the efficiency of their processes to adapt to new water quality regulations....

Welcome back to TPO magazine's Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions with in-depth explanations of the answers. Last time, we...

Making your water treatment facility run as efficiently as possible while meeting capacity demands and environmental regulations is a tall order —...

After being exposed for seven years to toxins at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s wastewater treatment plant, Tim Combs of Bremerton, Washington,...

The Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is a small piece of man-made nature in an urban jungle, but its impact is anything but...

As a teenager working at the Marshall Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, Rick Bailey got a lesson about quality work.“My boss was Harold...

Twenty-five years ago, Tony Wood’s life made a right-angle turn: He got married and within a month became the chief operator of...

Heterotrophs are a group of microorganisms including yeasts, molds and bacteria that use organic carbon as their sole carbon and energy source....

There was supposed to be a three-month window. It didn’t materialize.Instead, the old water filtration plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee, closed at 10:09...

Planet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing clean water to the world’s most impoverished communities, recently announced plans to deploy 12...

When the largest wastewater treatment facility in Alaska switched from chlorine gas disinfection to sodium hypochlorite, Andrew Johnson faced a challenge. He...

For the past decade, high-speed turbo blowers have helped many wastewater treatment facilities significantly increase aeration efficiency and drive down energy costs.At...