COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the flow of wastewater into treatment plants, and it shouldn’t stop the stream of water education either.
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Researchers Develop Membrane to Recover Nutrients for Fertilizer
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have announced a process they developed called NPHarvest, which allows for the recovery of nitrogen and...
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Pioneering Resource Recovery Facility Wins WEF 2020 Project Excellence Award
Carollo Engineers, Inc., South Platte Renew (SPR), and J.R. Filanc Construction Company have received the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) prestigious 2020 Project Excellence...
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California District Begins Work On a Next-Generation Class A Digester Facility
The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) has engaged a team of Brown and Caldwell and Black & Veatch to deliver professional design...
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Using Molecular Diagnostics for Wastewater Monitoring
Wastewater treatment plant operators have relied on a variety of monitoring tools — DO, pH, SV30/SVI, sludge depth — to keep facilities...
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Lin Wins Prestigious Paul L. Busch Award for Innovative Water Research
Entry 243256Shihong Lin, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, has won the 2020 Paul L. Busch Award from The Water Research...
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Researchers Harness the Power of Biosolids to Make Hydrogen
Researchers have used biosolids to produce hydrogen from wastewater in new technology that supports the comprehensive recycling of one of humanity’s unlimited...
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Bug of the Month: Nitrobacter's Role in Activated Sludge Processes
Treatment Plant Operator’s Bug of the Month is an ongoing series that spotlights the organisms present in wastewater microbiology. Each month a new...
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COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Water Security
Urgent action on water security is essential to better prepare societies for future global health crises, say experts at the University of...
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Purdue Scientist Gets EPA Funding to Study PFAS in Rural Waters
Entry 243285Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have long been used to make products like stain-resistant carpets and clothing, water-proofing textiles, grease- and...
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Wildfires Can Poison Drinking Water. Here's How Communities Can Prepare.
In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction.
The 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise and Butte County, California was the...
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Federal Agencies Warn that Foreign Hackers Are Targeting Critical Infrastructure
The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued a joint alert warning that...
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National Survey Shows High Confidence in U.S. Tap Water
Four in five Americans (77%) served by a water utility say the quality of their tap water is excellent or good, although...
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Why Wastewater Testing Is Critical in the Fight Against COVID-19
Almost certainly you’ve seen headlines about wastewater treatment plants around North America joining the fight against COVID-19 by testing wastewater in an...
















