WATER INNOVATIONS CURRENT ISSUE
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![GettyImages-1429143757]( "When Almost Perfect Isn’t Good Enough")
Despite statistically astounding performance, water and wastewater utilities have almost no room for error due to the nature of public perception and the importance of their work.
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![0523_SL_EnvironmentalLawGrp]( "PFAS Payback: How Utilities Can Hold Polluters Accountable")
As the federal government ramps up the regulatory process for enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water, estimated to cost billions annually, an environmental attorney details how utilities can hold polluters — instead of ratepayers — financially responsible. -
![0523_CarolloEngineers]( "Houston, We Have A Solution: Enhancing The Water Digital Twin Using Machine Learning")
How artificial intelligence is assisting the digital twin to benefit Houston's water utilities and citizens. -
![0523_InfiltratorWaterSystems]( "Roundup On High-Strength Wastewater: Treatment Challenges And Solutions")
Wastewater is by nature a nuisance, but there are especially difficult varieties, covered herein, that can cripple onsite systems if not understood and handled properly. -
![0523_BlueConduit]( "How To Evaluate Predictive Models For Lead Service Line Inventory And Replacement")
Get an accurate service line material prediction for Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) compliance by avoiding modeling pitfalls. -
![0523_WIN-911]( "Forward-Thinking Utility Knows The Value Of Advanced Technology")
Renewable Water Resources looks to remote alarm notification software to improve efficiency and avert problems. -
![0523_GlobalMarketInsights]( "Keeping Tabs On Water Consumption And The Wastewater Treatment Chemicals Market")
Population growth and increasing prosperity, along with environmental stressors and regulatory mandates, amplify the need for wastewater treatment and chemicals.
WASTEWATER
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Roundup On High-Strength Wastewater: Treatment Challenges And Solutions5/4/2023Wastewater is by nature a nuisance, but there are especially difficult varieties, covered herein, that can cripple onsite systems if not understood and handled properly.
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Keeping Tabs On Water Consumption And The Wastewater Treatment Chemicals Market5/4/2023Population growth and increasing prosperity, along with environmental stressors and regulatory mandates, amplify the need for wastewater treatment and chemicals.
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How An Algal Metabolic Hack Threatens Our Waters3/9/2023Algae's ability to adapt and thrive is bad news for U.S. waterways, highlighting the importance of preventative measures to stave off harmful algal blooms.
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Being Resourceful With Wastewater Treatment To Help Tackle The Global Water Crisis3/9/2023Trends toward efficiency and digitalization within the wastewater treatment industry promise improved operations, a healthier environment, and a more sustainable future.
UTILITY MANAGEMENT
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Houston, We Have A Solution: Enhancing The Water Digital Twin Using Machine Learning5/4/2023How artificial intelligence is assisting the digital twin to benefit Houston's water utilities and citizens.
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Xylem Invites The Building Industry To Partner For A More Sustainable Future1/25/2023
Global water technology leader Xylem (NYSE:XYL) will showcase new technologies and solutions for building services at ISH 2023, a leading trade fair for HVAC and Water taking place in Frankfurt, Germany, from 13 to 17 March 2023.
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Industry 5.0: What It Means For Industry And Water Management1/11/2023While Industry 4.0 is still very relevant for digital transformation, Industry 5.0 has loftier ambitions — to transform the whole of business and society, sustainably.
INFRASTRUCTURE
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How To Evaluate Predictive Models For Lead Service Line Inventory And Replacement5/4/2023Get an accurate service line material prediction for Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) compliance by avoiding modeling pitfalls.
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Customer Engagement And Water Infrastructure Projects: How To Achieve Success1/11/2023Communication between a utility and its customers has historically been sparse and negative — complaints on one side, bills and notices on the other — but healthy communication is now encouraged as a key aspect of successful infrastructure development.
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Getting The Most From Your Pump Station With Computational Fluid Dynamics11/3/2022
Carollo has developed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling approaches and methods to evaluate and optimize pump intake hydraulics, embracing an industry trend that improves the efficiency, affordability, and reliability of water/ wastewater infrastructure projects.
SOURCE WATER
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New Study Confirms A More Sustainable Approach To Treat PFAS3/9/2023The long-term performance of colloidal activated carbon to eliminate PFAS exposure risk is proven on sites globally.
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Regulating Farm Pollution To Reduce Harmful Algal Blooms1/11/2023As nutrient pollution increases the incidence and severity of harmful algal blooms, it is obvious and important to point mitigation practices toward a prime culprit — the agriculture industry.
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Leachate — A Key To Unlocking The Chain Of Recirculating PFAS Forever?1/11/2023
PFAS contamination is ubiquitous in the water cycle, but landfill wastewater leachate poses an opportunity to treat concentrated streams and break up the continuous movement through the water cycle.
DRINKING WATER
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Thirst For Water: How The Nation’s Largest Desalination Plant Is Generating Change3/9/2023Nearly a decade on, the Carlsbad Desalination Plant is a model of success not only for seawater reverse osmosis but also for visionary problem-solving.
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A Big-Picture Approach To Water Regulations3/9/2023
A Q&A with human health toxicologist and environmental risk assessor Janet Anderson, Ph.D., DABT
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A 2023 Road Map To Replacing The Nation’s Toxic Lead Pipes1/11/2023One of the great water-management and societal challenges of our time is to get the lead out of our nation's drinking water — a daunting but achievable task, if approached correctly.
REVENUE
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PFAS Payback: How Utilities Can Hold Polluters Accountable5/4/2023As the federal government ramps up the regulatory process for enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water, estimated to cost billions annually, an environmental attorney details how utilities can hold polluters — instead of ratepayers — financially responsible.
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The Importance Of Water Efficiency In Enhancing Economic Development Strategies3/9/2023Establishing water efficiency measures with commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) sector partners has a lasting effect if positioned from a standpoint of cost savings, utility footprint reduction, and overall economic development benefits.
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Digital Transformation Drives Customer Satisfaction, Improved Processes11/3/2022
Digital payment platforms improve the efficiency of collections and related labor practices, but their greatest benefit may be enhancing utility-customer relations.
MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL
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Forward-Thinking Utility Knows The Value Of Advanced Technology5/4/2023Renewable Water Resources looks to remote alarm notification software to improve efficiency and avert problems.
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Water Systems Get Smart With Digitalization1/11/2023
Utilities can more confidently commit to digital transformation once the benefits, as well as the elements critical to its success, are understood.
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Additional Technology To Help Thwart Cyberattacks1/11/2023
The future is connected, but it must also be secure — especially when it comes to public water.
REUSE
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Navigating Contaminants Of Emerging Concern3/9/2023Two recent research projects — one to improve potable reuse, the other to stop the proliferation of PFAS — look to source control as the key leverage point.
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Adopting A 'One Water' Approach Through Integrated Master Planning1/11/2023A One Water master plan under development for the city of Winter Haven, Florida, serves as an example to other communities looking at the future through a One Water lens.
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What Role Can Decentralized Water Reuse Play in Tackling Water Scarcity?7/15/2022
Onsite and localized reuse expand the practice overall, which will be essential for long-term security.
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Industrial Wastewater Reuse: From Vision To Reality1/12/2022
With the need for fresh water becoming ever more critical, an innovative treatment solution provides promise for cost-effective sustainability.
FROM THE EDITOR
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A Big-Picture Approach To Water Regulations3/9/2023
A Q&A with human health toxicologist and environmental risk assessor Janet Anderson, Ph.D., DABT
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Going Digital: Celebrating Achievement In Water And Wastewater Infrastructure Development12/1/2022
Following two years of hosting remotely, Bentley Systems returned to a live setting for its annual Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards event, held November 14-15 in London, England. Bentley welcomed 114 press members from 23 countries to celebrate some of the most impressive infrastructure projects of the past year, including those from the water/wastewater sector.
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All For One And One For All — For Water's Sake9/9/2022
Societal well-being is hugely dependent on a clean and available water supply, which is becoming increasingly dependent on community engagement and education.
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Water Utilities vs. Climate Change: A Plan For Securing Our Future7/15/2022
The U.N.’s Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is widely considered to be the world’s foremost authority on what may be humankind’s most existential threat, and this year The Working Group II of the IPCC released its Sixth Assessment Report on the state of the crisis. It reviewed not only the impacts of climate change throughout ecosystems and communities, but also the “capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt.”
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Calling On Utilities To Combat Legionella5/5/2022
The risk level linked to delivered drinking water from municipal utilities is very small, even if some high-profile examples of failure (see Flint, MI) have degraded public confidence to a degree. Our treatment professionals usually hit their targets, so the onus then shifts to the research and guidance that determines the safe level of various constituents through U.S. EPA protocols. But there is one contaminant that rulemaking hasn’t quite caught up to and which is downright deadly — Legionella pneumophila.