The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is asking utilities to help assemble baseline data on the amount of resource recovery taking place at...
Entries Tagged Resource Recovery
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How Kamloops, British Columbia, Tackled Waste-to-Energy Efforts
The customer:
The City of Kamloops, located in the interior of British Columbia along the scenic Thompson River, operates a wastewater treatment facility...
Editorial
Organizational Merger Emphasizes 'One Water' Approach
The days of looking at water as separate entities — wastewater, drinking water, groundwater, stormwater — are rapidly fading. Consensus is forming...
Editorial
Company Puts Algae to Work with New Solids Pretreatment Process
Clean-water plants increasingly look beyond the treatment of wastewater and toward resource recovery. A variety of technologies coming to market in recent...
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8 Tremendous Benefits of Biosolids
With Earth Day just behind us, it's important to reflect on the importance of recycling naturally occurring resources. Historically, biosolids and many organic food wastes have...
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Directory Could Accelerate Water Resource Recovery Innovation
A new National Water Resource Recovery Test Bed Facility Directory is now available from the Water Environment Research Foundation. The directory helps...
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Lystek International Releases 2015 Crop Trial Results
Canadian biofertilizer producer Lystek International has released the results of an in-depth crop trial completed during Ontario's 2015 growing year.The Cambridge-based firm uses low-temperature, low-cost...
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WERF Seeks Resource Recovery Proposals
The Water Environment Research Foundation has funded significant research on recovery of resources from wastewater systems. Because WERF seeks to understand how resource recovery...
Blogs
The Name Game: Treatment Plant or Resource Recovery Facility?
Are you a wastewater treatment plant operator? Or would you prefer “resource recovery specialist?” Do you work at a wastewater treatment plant?...
Blogs
Changing Times: We Are the New Face of Water
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DVO phosphorus recovery system
The Two-Stage Mixed Plug Flow anaerobic digester and phosphorus recovery system from DVO is designed to remove 75 to 95 percent of...
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WEF Conference to Focus on Resource Recovery, Reuse and Renewal
Representing a broad spectrum of issues related to resource recovery, reuse and renewal in the water sector, the Water Environment Federation is presenting two...
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Burn Free: How Fuel Cells Generate Electricity From Biogas
The science of capturing gas from wastewater treatment plants to be used as fuel for vehicles and generators has been well developed....
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Gold Rush! Could Biosolids Contain Millions in Precious Metals?
In the classic 1969 Western musical, Paint Your Wagon, Ben Rumson, played by Lee Marvin, and Pardner, played by Clint Eastwood, discover...











