It might be difficult to imagine a wastewater treatment process that doesn’t use chemicals or biological agents or membranes or filters.
But that’s...
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You’ve Never Seen Water Treatment Quite Like This
Entries Tagged Sustainability
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It’s the Best Training You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of
Operators have lots of places to get training. Many neglect or don’t even know about what arguably are the best sources.
Fourteen environmental...
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Reduce, Recover, Regenerate. $47 Billion
For several years “resource recovery” has been the watchword in the clean-water sector. Now the term of choice is the “circular water...
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Splitting the Molecule: A New Energy Source in St. Cloud
A Minnesota clean-water plant is taking energy production to the next level — molecular.For years St. Cloud’s Nutrient, Energy and Water Recovery...
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Bubbles Up: New Approach to Secondary Treatment
The Grandville (Michigan) Clean Water Plant uses an activated sludge process with fine-bubble aeration to treat an average flow of 6 mgd,...
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A Second CHP Generator Is a No-Brainer
Winona is doubling down on combined heat and power.The Minnesota city on the Mississippi River installed its first CHP microturbine generator at...
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Nutrient Reduction — With Other Benefits for Health and Environment
Market-based approaches to reducing pollution aren’t new. Perhaps the best known is the emissions trading program in the 1980s used to curtail...
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Award Recognizes Des Moines for Broad Sustainability Initiatives
Des Moines Water Works improved its energy performance by 19.4% over eight years with auditors keeping watch every step of the way.
Ted...
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Power for Pumps: Looking to the Sun
Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority has three solar arrays in development. One is to have two jobs: providing power and shade.
The wastewater treatment...
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She's Young. She's Energetic. She's Making a Difference for her Hometown.
Elizabeth “Liz” Kramer turned a degree in history into work on innovative energy and resource recovery projects for her hometown of St....
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An Oregon Operator Focuses on Improving People, Plant, Process
Roy Bradley isn’t one to coast on the job. He comes to work determined to make himself and his treatment plant better....
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HydroXS: Turning Water Pressure to Energy
All flowing water contains energy. Water utilities increasingly try to take advantage of it.
In fact, in-conduit hydropower plays a small yet growing...
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Sarasota’s Plant Upgrade Takes the Long View and Looks Deep
The nearly complete upgrade at Sarasota County’s Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility does more than boost capacity.
The $280 million project includes a...
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Potable Reuse Will Soon Reach New Heights. Operators Are Key Players.
Water utilities in the arid Southwestern United States are starved for water supplies and increasingly look to indirect and direct potable reuse...
