Drinking Water Articles
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The Crucial Need for Measuring Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants
Wastewater treatment plants are indispensable infrastructures for maintaining public health and environmental quality. However, these facilities are not only responsible for purifying water; they also emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O). Despite its potency as a greenhouse gas, the monitoring and measurement of N2O emissions from wastewater treatment plants ...
By XPRT
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Water trends in integrated water resource management for 2024: challenges and solutions
It is a critical time for water resource management, which is facing a series of major challenges including climate change. This phenomenon is generating longer periods of drought and more intense rainfall. Tackling this issue, along with the problems of demographic growth and urban development, poses multiple challenges in different areas for water management authorities, which call for answers ...
By Idrica
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Brioche Pasquier entrusts Veolia with the construction and management of a new wastewater reuse unit
> The solution implemented by Veolia will allow for the reuse of 3 cubic meters per hour (m3/h), or 3,000 liters per hour (l/h), of wastewater after treatment. > The amount of water taken from the city for cooling will be reduced by 85%, representing a saving of 18,000 m3/year. The treated wastewater that is not recycled is used for agricultural irrigation. Brioche Pasquier, a French ...
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Packaged Wastewater Treatment Plants for Homeowners Associations
Homeowners associations and their communities can benefit from decentralized treatment using modular packaged plants Homeowners Associations (HOAs) often find themselves out of compliance with wastewater treatment regulations. This may be due to increasingly strict standards. For example, biological nutrient removal (“BNR”) regulations are getting stricter in states across the US, ...
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Applying Soil Quality Guidelines for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) at Contaminated Sites
The Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for addressing soil contamination by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to protect environmental and human health. The full guidelines can be found here: Canadian PAH Guidelines. Key steps in applying Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) at a contaminated site include: Step 1: ...
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How do you dispose of waste lithium battery?
Lithium batteries are considered hazardous waste, because they contain metals and other toxic or corrosive substances. But on the contrary, lithium battery have an excellent potential for recycled materials because of these metals. Therefore, all batteries must be disposed of safely and responsibly. Well, how to dispose of waste lithium battery? 1. Find recycling center: Look for a facility that ...
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Iron Removal - KDF 85 Process Medium Removes Iron
KDF 85 Process Medium is an Effective Non-Chemical Water Treatment for Iron Removal and Other Heavy Metal Removal KDF water filter media used by a bottled drinking water producer A Kalamazoo, Michigan producer of bottled drinking water uses KDF media as a non-chemical method of removing chlorine and sequestered iron from 7,500 gallons of municipal water daily, extending the operating ...
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Potomac Water Treatment Plant Surge Tank - Case Study
The project required caisson foundations for two 30ft. dia. spherical tanks, 60” dia. steel welded water mains, construction of a pump and control building, compressed air surge control system and pump control valve replacement at the Potomac Water Treatment Plant in Potomac, ...
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Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines for PAHs
The document provides detailed guidelines on Canadian Soil Quality for protecting environmental and human health, focusing on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). It revises the 2008 guidelines, incorporating improvements in the understanding and implementation of PAH soil quality guidelines, superseding those from 1997. The key points include:PAH Sources and Nature: PAH contamination is ...
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Copper-Silver Ionization: A Simple and Effective Solution for Legionella Remediation
Legionella remediations are treatment processes for controlling Legionella in a building water system, generally deployed after routine Legionella testing returns shows systemic positivity or if a case of Legionnaire’s disease is traced back to the facility. Copper-silver ionization is a proven remedial water treatment method backed by hundreds of independent research studies. ...
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Can Algae Make You Sick? When Harmful Algal Blooms Result in Public Health Disasters
Algae, a diverse group of photosynthetic organisms, play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems, serving as the foundation of the food chain and contributing to oxygen production. However, under certain conditions, typically fueled by nutrient pollution and warm temperatures, some algae species can undergo explosive growth, forming dense colonies known as algal blooms. While not all algal blooms are ...
By LG Sonic
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Corrosion: What Is It and How to Control It
What is corrosion? Corrosion is the degradation or deterioration of a material caused by a reaction to its environment. In building plumbing systems, corrosion can occur in our piping systems and water-bearing equipment due to reactions, chemicals, and impurities in the water. These processes result in uniform corrosion, pitting, cracking, or erosion, ultimately causing the breakdown and ...
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Water treatment in different manufacturing industries
Water plays a critical role in industrial processes, serving as a vital resource for manufacturing goods and maintaining machinery and supplies. However, the quality of water can differ depending on its source, whether it is from a deep well, lake, river, or municipal supply. To address water quality concerns, different treatment methods are available, with the optimal approach ...
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How to remove aluminum from medicine blister packs?
There are many ways to remove aluminum foil from medicine blister packs, like burning, chemical extracting method or using aluminum plastic recycling machine to process. However, as the environmental protection requirements become more and more stringent, burning method and chemical extracting method have been banned by many government. So using the aluminum plastic recycling machine to remove ...
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Water trends in sanitation networks for 2024: Technology to protect people
Sanitation systems are another core part of the water cycle as they manage the entire network from their source to their point of use or end-of-life disposal. Technology is also set to play a key role in these networks in 2024, not only to ensure that they run smoothly, but also to respond to extreme events and control the spread of ...
By Idrica
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Biofilm: What Is It and How to Control It
Biofilms, intricate communities of microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic entities, thrive on surfaces through a remarkable process of collaboration and self-protection. Encased within a self-produced, slime-like matrix, these microorganisms firmly anchor themselves to a variety of surfaces, from the moist lining of a water pipe to the hard enamel of our teeth. While ...
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Project - High Level Concrete Tower
High Level Concrete Water Tower The high level drinking water storage reservoir within the top of the water tower, underwent a full internal refurbishment in 2017. After removal of the existing failed waterproofing system and surface preparation to the concrete walls and floors, all expansion joints were sealed using a joint overbanding system, and all concrete surfaces received a cementitious ...
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Natural Polymers for Industrial Flocculation: A Guide
Imagine stepping into a world where the water is sustainably clarified. Not through magic, but science. The hero? Natural polymers for industrial flocculation. These aren’t your everyday materials. Derived from plant and marine life, they’re shaking up how we purify our most precious resource: water. Flocculants have been around for ages, true. But synthetic options are so yesterday ...
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The dangers of welding fumes and protecting the health of the welding operators
Introduction: Welding plays a crucial role in creating strong and durable metal joints and is a critical process in multiple industries ranging from construction and manufacturing to automotive and aerospace. However, there is a significant health risk that is posed to the operators because of the toxic fumes generated during the welding process. In this post, we explore the dangers of welding ...
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What’s Being Done To Detect Water Leaks?
As we all know, water is one of the most precious resources that we have, but it’s all too easy for us to take it for granted, particularly in developed countries where we simply turn on a tap and out it comes. But access to water is coming increasingly under threat around the world, thanks to climate change, urbanisation, population growth, pollution and water mismanagement, and ...
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