Wastewater treatment is a relatively new profession that began in earnest with the Clean Water Act of 1972.
This means there are few...
Editorial
A Third-Generation Operator Reflects on His Career — and Looks Forward to Generation Four
Reclaimed Water Articles
Editorial
Comprehensive Training Helps a Plant Team Master a Reuse Facility Serving the Petroleum Industry
The Texas city of Midland needed a new clean-water plant. Pioneer Natural Resources needed an alternative to groundwater for its oil and...
Editorial
An Operator's Conference Gives Participants a Test in a Highly Unconventional Skill
Through 11 years in the water industry, Jay Irby has earned five licenses. Now he can add another: poetic license.
Irby, water renewal...
Editorial
A Florida County Finds New Ways to Put Reclaimed Water to Work
Pasco County, Florida, is putting reclaimed water to use in a new way that makes the regional drinking water supply more sustainable...
Online Exclusives
Reclaimed Wastewater Plays a Key Role in Conservation
As the wastewater collection and treatment agency as well as the water distribution agency for its service area, the Orange Water and...
Editorial
In This Florida County, Wastewater Effluent Goes on to Become Irrigation Water for a Variety of Green Spaces
Team members at the South County Water Reclamation Facility IN Collier County, Florida, have been scrambling to keep up with growth...
Online Exclusives
Florida Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Water Conserv II Project
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection joins the city of Orlando, Orange County and area representatives in celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Water...
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Wastewater Beer? The Craze is Spreading
A newly organized brewing competition in Arizona is making waves because of its key ingredient: reclaimed wastewater. In a YouTube video, Pima...
Online Exclusives
Forward Thinking: Citizen Group Drives Flagstaff’s Wastewater Initiatives
Wastewater technology may one day solve the world’s thirst for freshwater and provide an environmentally safe means for biosolids disposal.Brad Hill, utilities...
Editorial
The Reclamation Imperative
Think back to how our society functioned 50 or 60 years ago. We drank beer or soda pop from cans that we...
Editorial
Up With Efficiency
When the City of Winter Haven Utility Service Department began an aggressive cost savings program in 2012, leaders made sure the operations staff...
Editorial
Full Circle
The heavy rains that flood streets and wash out beach parties in Destin, Fla., don’t bother Richard Griswold. In fact, they can...
Editorial
Finding the Magic
You can hear the passion in Dan Peterson’s voice when he speaks about his product. As superintendent of the Durham (N.H.) Wastewater...
Videos
"Excellence, Start to Finish" - Lodi, Calif. - August 2013 TPO Video Profile
A lot has changed since 2007 at the White Slough Water Pollution Control Plant in Lodi, Calif. There’s a new biosolids process,...
