Recently appointed Water Environment Federation (WEF) President Jackie Jarrell understands the trials and tribulations of WEF members, and not just from afar. As the deputy director of Charlotte Water, a utility with about 1,000 employees and 800,000 customers, she has firsthand experience with common industry challenges, including aging infrastructure, a retiring workforce, and emerging contaminants of concern such as PFOS. As president of WEF,...  Continue Reading..

Two VPs from Brown and Caldwell stopped by Water Talk to share leading-edge insight on topics important to just about every American utility — doing more with less and innovating for the future. Jose Jimenez, VP of Water Technology and Innovation, notes how "process intensification" can be achieved through gains in energy efficiency, among other ways, and illustrates the impact by sharing real-world results from a Pueblo, CO,...  Continue Reading..

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) has long led the way for water and wastewater professionals, but now the 35,000-member organization has a new leader of its own — Water Talk guest Walt Marlowe. Fresh off his initiation as executive director on Sept. 9, the executive director sat down to discuss his varied background, his views on the state of the water industry, and his plans for WEF moving forward. He also shares lessons learned...  Continue Reading..

Installing flow meters in new piping is one thing. Replacing a 20-year-old meter or adding new metering to piping where it never existed before is quite another. In this Water Talk interview, Cheryl Ades Anspach, marketing manager with Badger Meter, offers a non-invasive alternative using easily retrofittable clamp-on ultrasonic meters offering accuracy to + 0.5 percent and flow rates to 33,000 gpm in pipes up to 48” diameter. Two...  Continue Reading..

Fine bubble diffusers in water treatment operations can be problematic. In addition to their tendency for fouling and gasket failure, they can foster less-than-ideal bromate conditions. Using sidestream injection technology for delivering ozone, by comparison, offers a significant reduction in bromate formation while allowing easy access to key process components for maintenance and eliminating the need for contactor shutdowns.  Continue Reading..

Not all water is the same, so don't be sold on a "one-size-fits-all" solution. Many treatment providers will attempt to fit a square peg in a round hole, while others — a select few, in fact — can provide a fit-for-purpose solution based on broad, customized capabilities. That's the pitch from U.S. Water Services, which recently became part of Japan-based Kurita Water Industries, a resource- and technology-rich...  Continue Reading..

Everyone wants peak accuracy from their instrumentation, but nobody wants to disrupt their field process to verify it. Purvang Upadhyay, the global water industry manager for measurement and analytics with ABB, shared an attractive alternative to such disruption with the Water Talk moderators at WEFTEC 2019 — in-situ verification. This classic example of digitalization in the water industry enables users to check the health and accuracy of...  Continue Reading..