The Mesa Water Resources Department likes to keep its water in the ground.
“We consider groundwater nonrenewable, because in most cases, once you...
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Reliable Water Supply in a Desert City? Diversity Is the Key.
Reclaimed Water Articles
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From Lagoon to Mechanical, Dustin Preheim and Team Made It Happen
Dustin Preheim spent 10 years as a landscape designer developing backyard environments for homeowners. Now he designs the environments for hardworking bacteria...
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Who’s the Culprit: Kids Pursue Water Wasters
California’s West Basin Municipal Water District has created a fun and engaging online detective game to teach children how to conserve water...
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Potable Reuse Is Booming. So Are Your Professional Prospects.
The boom in wastewater recycling means big opportunities for water treatment professionals.
That’s according to Peter Annin, author of the book, Purified: How...
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Direct Potable Reuse: Florida’s Ready for the Starter’s Gun
Potable reuse of wastewater is growing nationwide. Florida’s operator association is preparing its members for the advanced treatment technologies needed by creating...
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Passersby Mistake This Clean-Water Plant for Something Very Different
The Crooked Creek Water Reclamation Facility is so well maintained that a visitor once mistook it for something else.“A lady walked up...
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Case Studies - November 2023
Reclamation district implements phosphorus removal to achieve strict environmental standardsProblem: The Fox River Water Reclamation District in South Elgin, Illinois, needed to comply...
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Heads Together: Engineers and Operators Plan a Huge Upgrade
A $184 million upgrade of the H.L. Mooney Advanced Water Reclamation Facility won’t be completed until 2027.
Still, operations and maintenance team members...
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A Net-Zero Trifecta: Power, Effluent, Biosolids
Significant progress toward net-zero power consumption with solar energy only made the staff at the Town of Windsor Water Reclamation Facility in...
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More than Wastewater
It’s not just the water coming through the sewer system that concerns Bruce Royce and his team at the Midland Water Reclamation...
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Case Studies: Headworks and Biosolids Management
Modern decanters deliver twice the flow using half the power at water reclamation facility
Problem: A water reclamation facility in the Southeast needed to replace...
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Even COVID Couldn’t Upset This Award-Winning Clean-Water Plant Operations Team
Whether it’s biosolids, safety, or overall plant performance, the Northeast Water Reclamation Facility staff gets the job done.
Even the COVID pandemic couldn’t...
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Case Study: Monitoring and Instrumentation
Reclamation facility uses online THM analyzerProblem: The upgraded Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, operated by the Pima County (Arizona) Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department...
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For This Facility, Energy Efficiency Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
The search for energy savings and more sustainable operations never ends at the LOTT Clean Water Alliance.
The wastewater management utility formed by...
