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News Briefs: Colorado Brewery Making Beer With Recycled Wastewater
A brewery in Denver, Colorado, has announced plans to brew and blind taste-test beer made with recycled water.Lone Tree Brewing Co. recently...
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Batteries Are Included for This Energy Efficient California WWTP
Sustainable energy is a high priority for the Napa (California) Sanitation District. That leads the operators of the district’s 15.4 mgd wastewater...
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News Briefs: Two Louisiana Systems Test Positive for 'Brain-Eating Amoeba'
Two of Louisiana’s water systems have tested positive for Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba known colloquially as the brain-eating amoeba, according to the...
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News Briefs: Public Gets Access to Potable Recycled Wastewater
Direct potable reuse of wastewater will be getting more attention soon in California, as a team of water districts is embarking on...
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Walking Through California’s Treatment Plant Upgrade of the Year
A major $13 million upgrade earned the City of Oakdale (California) Wastewater Treatment Plant recognition as the Treatment Plant Upgrade of the...
Editorial
This Operator's Philosophy is to Make System Changes One at a Time
To Cody Bridgewater, an unexpected change in effluent quality is no cause for hasty action — it’s a time for deliberate steps...
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News Briefs: 'Biblical Plague' of Midges Swarms New Zealand WWTP
The Christchurch (New Zealand) City Council has spent nearly $1 million in recent years trying to get a swarm of midges at...
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Operations Supervisor Finds Himself Far From His Original Career Path
Eric Gonzales planned to follow in his father’s foot-steps and go to dental school. Instead, the clean water profession chose him.A college...
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News Briefs: Welder Thrown 50 Feet in WWTP Explosion
A worker in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was seriously injured earlier this month in an explosion that occurred while he was welding a wastewater...
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California Prepares for Direct Potable Reuse of Wastewater
California’s multiyear drought was officially declared over on April 7, but the Legislature is on the verge of making the state a...
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News Briefs: WWTP Accused of Discrimination Against Septic Pumper
A local septic pumper is suing the city of Taylor, Texas, for racial discrimination because he allegedly wasn’t allowed to dump waste...
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News Briefs: Brewing Company Announces 'Full Circle' Wastewater Beer
Stone Brewing Co. in San Diego, California, has announced a new craft beer made of treated wastewater called Full Circle Pale Ale.San...
Editorial
This Reclaimed Wastewater Lake is the Center of a Community
People around Lake Mission Viejo in California now fish, swim and water ski in treated reclaimed wastewater. It comes from the Advanced...

















