Nitrogen and phosphorus from clean-water plant discharges and a variety of other sources are a growing cause for concern, since they can...
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'Future-Proof' Bacterial Method Removes Phosphorus From Warmer Wastewater
Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the National University of Singapore, have...
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A Background in and Passion for Science Propelled This Kentucky Operator to Career Success
After college Jenny Moss wanted a job involving nature and animals. Low pay for natural resources jobs quickly ended that notion, and...
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Water Environment Federation Recognizes Utilities for Reducing Nutrient Loading to Waterways
The Water Environment Federation is recognizing 15 utilities for significantly reducing nutrient pollution, one of the leading problems for the health of...
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Forty Years in Clean Water. No Plans to Retire
Many high school students find their first jobs at McDonald’s or Burger King. Not Wade Lagle.
“I didn’t really want to work at a...
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California City to Treat Nitrate in Groundwater Using Regenerable Ion Exchange
The City of San Fernando, California, has awarded Envirogen Technologies, Inc. with a contract for a new, next generation SimPACK regenerable ion...
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NSF Grant Funds Study on How Contaminants Move Through River Environments
A Washington State University-led research team has received a collaborative National Science Foundation grant to improve understanding of how contaminants, nutrients and...
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Researchers Examine Wastewater Discharge Effects on Coastal Ecosystems
The tendency for most of us when it comes to human wastewater is out of sight, out of mind. Rarely do we...
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NSmart Program to Reduce Nutrients In Waterways and Recognize Leading Utilities
The Water Environment Federation, in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has launched the NutrientSmart (NSmart) program to help reduce nutrient...
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Industry News: November 2021
Tnemec acquires EpoxytecKansas City, Missouri-based Tnemec announced it has acquired Epoxytec International, which was established in 1990 by Joe Caputi. Originally an...
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Product Focus - November 2021
Aeration Equipment
Brown Bear Series R31
Brown Bear R31 series paddle aerator attachments for sludge drying and aeration of compost windrows attach to high-flow...
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On the Basketball Court or in the Treatment Plant, Damon Forney Has Always Believed in Team Play
In the minds of most people, the “greatest place on earth” might be a hammock on a south sea island or a...
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Surge in Nitrogen Has Turned Sargassum Into the World's Largest Algal Bloom
For centuries, pelagic Sargassum, a floating brown seaweed, has grown in low nutrient waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, supported by natural nutrient...
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Plant Achieves Low Nutrient Limits with Biolac System and MRI Plate Settlers
The Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility located in Monument, Colorado, receives flow from the Woodmoor, Palmer Lake, and Monument Sanitation Districts. The plant...















