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The leading challenge faced today in water and wastewater treatment is the ability to save and create efficient energy consumption, which is an...
When North Carolina officials ordered treatment plants to withdraw from an overused aquifer, the Water Supply and Treatment Facility in Jacksonville...
San Antonio is best known for the Riverwalk, the Alamo and authentic Mexican cuisine. The country’s seventh largest city, however, is also a national...
The Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU) is the largest water and wastewater utility in Alaska, serving Anchorage, Chugiak-Eagle River,...
It was an early Saturday morning at the end of August when a giant sinkhole engulfed an SUV and its driver. The sinkhole opened up at a northwest...
As greater restrictions are being placed on industrial and municipal plants, filtration systems are being pushed to greater operating levels. The...
Wastewater facility installs MBR technology to produce Class 1A effluentThe Rio Del Oro Wastewater Treatment Plant, located in Los Lunas, N.M., is...
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Unlike dissolving table salt in water, removing salts from water  pays the cost for going against nature. Laws of nature govern the chemical...
Mesa Consolidated Water District (MCWD) was formed on Jan. 1, 1960, to manage and deliver water and water-related services to customers within its 18...
Laboratory trials and small- and large-scale external pilot trials have shown promising results for the future of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes...
The compact footprint of many membrane systems is a big advantage for a growing number of water treatment installations. Many municipalities are...
How did reverse osmosis (RO) technology get started? In order to understand its history, let’s begin with a close look into osmosis. One of the most...
Much of my current workload concerns projects with reverse osmosis (RO) as an integral component for makeup water treatment and/or a pre-concentrator...
Pumping requirements vary from application to application—that’s a no-brainer—but it is easy to overlook the fact that they also fluctuate within...
A power plant in the Southwest recently was required to move to zero liquid discharge (ZLD) because the existing land it used for disposal—via spray...
Reverse osmosis (RO) has come a long way since its first successful salt rejection application in 1959. Critics of RO desalination have pegged the...
The city of Santa Paula, Calif., recently completed construction of the first water recycling facility built under California Government Code 5956 to...
Over the years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has offered voluntary partnership programs to address a wide variety of environmental...
Membranes are not install-and-forget solutions. These investments warrant consistent, specialized monitoring and maintenance. And given the proper...

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