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Entries Tagged Wastewater Treatment
Videos
This Plant's Effluent Is Cleaner Than the River
In this online exclusive video, Brian Ross, senior assistant director of Water & Waste Services, takes viewers on a tour of a...
Online Exclusives
New at WEFTEC: Clearas Offers Biological Treatment System for Nutrient Removal and Recovery
Clearas Water Recovery introduced an Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery (ABNR) system at the WEFTEC Show that maximizes recovery of excess nutrients, increases...
Online Exclusives
WEFTEC Report: Turning (Reuse) Water Into Wine
You can hardly attend a wastewater treatment convention these days without being offered a taste of beer made with reclaimed water.
Xylem has...
Online Exclusives
San Francisco to Upgrade WWTP With $699 Million EPA Loan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $699 million low-interest loan to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to...
Videos
Take a Video Tour of This Alabama MBR Plant
The Harvest-Monrovia (Alabama) Water and Sewer Authority serves 45,000 people using a biological nutrient-removal system. Join lead operator Eric Edwards as he...
Online Exclusives
They're Never Too Young: Taking My Grandsons to the 'Water Wasting Treatment Plant'
On a recent visit with my grandsons, 6-year-old Tucker out of the blue began talking about the “water wasting treatment plant.”
Apparently he...
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Effluent-Raised Salmon Gets Community Involved in Wastewater Treatment
Bangor, Maine, is experiencing a spike of tour requests and public interest due to its salmon release program.
Since 2007, the...
Online Exclusives
Hawaii’s Groundbreaking Wastewater Project Officially Unveiled
The completion of Hawaii’s largest ever wastewater system upgrade was formally announced last week by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. The project cost...
Videos
Solutions for Mechanical Pretreatment
See a mechanical preliminary wastewater pretreatment featuring screenings capture, washing and pressing with HUBER.
Online Exclusives
Software Tool Can Show if a City's WWTP Will Fail
Urban populations and megacities are on the rise and so is the amount of wastewater pouring into treatment facilities that cannot adequately...
Online Exclusives
What's In a Name: Shedding Wastewater's Stigma Via Rebranding
The words traditionally used to define municipal treatment systems — sewer, sewage, wastewater — have never painted a flattering image in the...
Online Exclusives
How Silver Nanoparticles Are Interfering With Wastewater Treatment
Research at Oregon State University has shed new light on how an increasingly common consumer product component – silver nanoparticles – can...
Blogs
Overdosing, Underdosing, and How to Get Precise With Wastewater Treatment Chemicals
In almost all things, wastewater treatment operators need to strike a delicate balance. They are asked to maintain cutting-edge processes but to...















