Entries Tagged Sustainability

Growing cities have to pay big to sustain wastewater treatment capacity and meet permit limits. Austin Water does so with conviction. For illustration,...

Officials in Slayton had three reasons to look at a new aeration system for the city’s wastewater treatment lagoons. The first reason was...

A sportswriter once asked the great Oakland A’s and New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson about the secret to winning. His reply: “Don’t...

Small communities need simple, cost-effective wastewater treatment processes. The ideal system delivers reliably compliant effluent in a package that requires minimal on-site...

For years the Paducah McCracken County Joint Sewer Agency dealt with too much or not enough air supply in its clean-water plant’s...

Midwestern utilities arguably land-apply more biosolids than those in any other region of the country. So it only makes sense that the...

Greg Wright has found that the path to energy self-sufficiency has many obstacles for rural clean-water plants. That hasn’t discouraged him from continuing...

When Jeff LeMay got the call that he’d been named 2021 Regional Wastewater Operator of the Year by the U.S. EPA, “I...

The Chino Basin Water Conservation District’s fall festival is back after a two-year hiatus due to COVID. Based in Montclair, California, the district...

Membrane bioreactors can be an attractive wastewater treatment option, delivering high-quality effluent in a relatively compact footprint.MBRs combine conventional activated sludge treatment...

In the Kansas city of Winfield they know a thing or two about energy. Since 1904, Winfield has been a public power community....

The Stevens Point Water Department decommissioned the combined heat and power system at its wastewater treatment plant and redirected the biogas to...

Ifetayo Venner has come a long way from her childhood in the Caribbean. The time she spent on island beaches kindled a...

The Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE) has released its “2022 U.S. State Policy Scorecard for Water Efficiency and Sustainability” which ranked each...