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Today’s clean-water plant operators deal with multiple priorities at once. That includes keeping track of information coming throughout the day from multiple...

The treatment plant manager steps to the front of the staff meeting. “I’ve got some exciting news,” she says. “We’re going to...

People/AwardsThe Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its 2016 budget (32nd consecutive year) from...

Welcome back to TPO magazine's new and improved Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions each week with in-depth explanations of...

Unit provides aeration and mixing to equalization basinProblem: Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvements District in Arizona built a 500,000 gpd biological wastewater...

As treatment regulations continue to evolve, wastewater treatment operators are required to outfit their plants with more equipment. That equipment takes valuable...

Asahi/America’s Omni ball valve is well known in the water and wastewater industry. It’s likely that anyone who performs maintenance at a...

Two of Louisiana’s water systems have tested positive for Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba known colloquially as the brain-eating amoeba, according to the...

Registration is now open for the Water Environment & Reuse (WE&RF) and Water Research Foundation’s (WEF) one-day workshop focusing on potable reuse...

Water for People award winner announced Lorene Bruns, regional sales manager for Duperon Corp. in Saginaw, Michigan, has been honored with the Water...

In this 3-D animated sequence, the inner workings of the Huber Technology Q-Press are depicted. The video shows how the sludge enters...

Welcome back to TPO magazine's new and improved Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions each week with in-depth...

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A water treatment plant in North Toledo, Ohio, recently was evacuated and one employee hospitalized due to a chlorine leak. A hazmat team...

Cornell materials scientists and bioelectrochemical engineers may have created an innovative, cost-competitive electrode material for cleaning pollutants in wastewater.The researchers created electro-spun...