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City Meets Safety Rules, Stops Boil Water Advisories with GE Water Treatment

April 11, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

With the Flint water crisis still fresh in city water managers’ — and community members’ — minds, ensuring water treatment plants produce safe drinking water is top priority for environmental officials and managers. General Electric’s technology is helping a water treatment plant in Canada meet new water safety rules and has allowed ... Read more »

Veolia Wastewater System Management Saves City Millions

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water and waste giant Veolia has saved the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, millions while improving efficiencies throughout the city’s wastewater system and facilities over the course of a 35-year environmental contract. Poughkeepsie has renewed an agreement with Veolia to continue managing and operating its wastewater system under a 10-year ... Read more »

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Optimizing Fracking Water, Wastewater Management

April 1, 2016January 9, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As the number of fracking operations increases in the US, so does the stress on water supplies. Oil and gas wells use as much as 1 million gallons (almost 24,000 barrels) of fresh water per wellhead, according to WesTech Engineering, which manufactures process equipment for the industrial, mineral, municipal water ... Read more »

Fortrans’ Tech Deaerates Water without Membrane Filter, Vacuum Pump

March 30, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water treatment technology firm Fortrans says it has developed a new way to produce low-cost deaerated, or de-oxygenated, water, which companies can use in lieu of chemical processes at about half the cost of membrane filter or vacuum pump systems. When oxygen combines with metals or salts in water, it ... Read more »

High-Efficiency Recirculation Pump for Wastewater Treatment

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Industrial manufacturing firm Sulzer has introduced a submersible recirculation pump for water and wastewater applications. The new pump series, ABS XRCP 800 PA, was developed for the pumping and recirculation of activated sludge in wastewater treatment plants during the nitrification and denitrification process, as well as for the pumping of ... Read more »

World Water Day 2016: Companies Pledge $1 Billion for Water R&D

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Today is World Water Day, an annual event started by the United Nations to raise awareness about global water scarcity and water safety. Both issues have affected the US this year as some regions struggle with drought and thousands of people were exposed to unsafe levels of lead following the ... Read more »

Evoqua Inks Deal to Buy Water Filtration Company

March 17, 2016March 17, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water treatment technology company Evoqua Water Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Neptune Benson, a manufacturer of water filtration and disinfection products for the recreational, industrial, and municipal water markets. Evoqua did not disclose the terms of the acquisition and says it expects to close on the transaction this ... Read more »

Veolia Partnership Puts $8M-$12M Savings on Tap for Water Utility

March 16, 2016March 15, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A maintenance and productivity program at water supply agency Washington Aqueduct has increased worker productivity, cut costs and improved maintenance and management. Through the partnership with Veolia North America, Washington Aqueduct has realized a 43 percent improvement in overall field maintenance staff productivity and stands to save millions of dollars ... Read more »

California ‘Ready for Recycled Water’

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

California residents are overwhelmingly supportive of using treated wastewater, or recycled water, in their everyday lives, according to a statewide survey released today by water technology provider Xylem. The survey defined recycled water as former wastewater that has been treated and purified so that it can be reused for drinking ... Read more »

Veolia, Partners Fast-Track Water Management Technologies

March 8, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Invisible bubbles to help the oil and gas industry recycle water, growing a valuable mineral from wastewater and using food waste to remove contaminants from water are the game-changing technologies that will improve global water management, according to Veolia and its partners. These are the three winners of the “Pow! ... Read more »

How Facility Managers Can Prevent, Manage Legionella

March 2, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

O’Brien & Gere’s environmental compliance practice works with facility to inspect, test, and implement effective solutions to prevent or manage the risk to the public associated with the threat of legionella in compliance with recent regulatory changes.

Kurion System Gives Nuclear Site Operators ‘New Tool’ to Manage Tritium

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nuclear waste cleanup firm Kurion today announced it has completed construction and testing of a prototype system that removes tritium from contaminated water. Kurion says the Modular Detritiation System (MDS) is a cost-effective system to manage tritium and eliminate the release of tritiated water to the environment. Water treatment systems ... Read more »

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