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Keeping Watch : Effectively

July 1, 2007By Steve Kovacs

Intrusion detection system provides some protection to treatment facilities

Municipalities across the country are realizing that protection of water resources deserves an increased priority and focus. The cost and consequences of contamination as a result of a mischievous child, a vagrant wandering onto the property, or a terrorist looking to inflict maximum harm can be catastrophic.

Simplicity is in the Eye of the User

July 1, 2007By Troy A. Hertog

Incorporating plant and operator needs is essential to effective automated control and telemetry system design

While the demand for automation is on the rise, facility managers interested in simplifying their operations should ensure that such a system actually will make work easier.

The Right MAP Will Get You There

July 1, 2007By Michael Cherniak

Benchmark assessment offers utilities comparative data to better direct future performance

Utility performance has been the subject of many benchmarking tools over the last decade. Professional water and wastewater associations have offered programs to their members to fill this need, focusing on various indicators. Typically, the measures are broad and all-encompassing at higher levels of management and more specific and narrow at the lower levels of an organization.

Thompson Pump Makes History by Helping

July 1, 2007By Debbie Bolles

A major supplier to the water and wastewater industry does not often get a chance to become a part of history. But that is what occurred when Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co. helped retrieve a sunken Confederate submarine off the coast of South Carolina in 2000.

What Does Enforcement Mean to You?

July 1, 2007By Granta Nakayama, Dawn Kristof Champney

Poland's Progress

June 1, 2007By Andrzej Przepiora

A case for cautious environmental optimism 18 years after communism

Since the demise of communism in 1989, many eastern European countries have invested heavily in environmental technologies and cleaner production facilities. The primary factors driving this growth have been the accession to the European Union (EU) and its commitment to integrating member country economies.

No Foul, No Harm

March 1, 2007By George R. Alther

Experiments test organoclay's sorptive capacity

While cationic and anionic resins typically last a long time in industrial wastewater and groundwater applications, they frequently become fouled by any of several compounds. The fouling eventually will destroy the resins' capacity to adsorb metals or other materials.

The Protozoa Puzzle

March 1, 2007By Michael H. Gerardi

Proliferation of certain groups provides clues for activated sludge management

The State of Desalination

March 1, 2007By Joseph A. Cotruvo, Ph.D., Houssain Abouzaid, Ph.D.

The WHO addresses quality and environmental aspects in new guidance document

A Match Made at Sea

January 1, 2007By Nikolay Voutchkov

Desalination process partners with power generation to lower costs for both

California's population is expected to increase more than 30 percent over the next 23 years. Even with aggressive reuse and conservation, that many more people will require more than 1 billion gallons of drinking water.

A New Lease on Old Methods

January 1, 2007By Zoe Grosser, Elaine Le Moine

Advances in organic analysis of wastewater using GC/MS

City Saves With Industrial Process

January 1, 2007By Jim Stafford, Boris M. Khudenko, Rocco M. Palazzolo

Anaerobic process converts organics with less biosolids, odor, and energy cost

Going Underground

January 1, 2007By Joe Dischinger

EPA sets deadlines for monitoring microbial pathogens in ground water

Isolated, Now Integrated

January 1, 2007By Katie McCarthy

As part of the total water resource system, stormwater management increases funding needs

Municipalities are entering a new era of greater public expectation and heightened regulation for stormwater management. Early stormwater systems were built solely for conveyance. Contemporary stormwater management and its systems have become part of a complete water resource system along with water development, treatment and distribution, as well as sewage collection.

Starting on the Right Track

January 1, 2007By Sherleen H. Mahoney

Contract negotiations require that the terms be spelled out and thoroughly understood

EPA understands it's not easy being green. That's why the agency created the Performance Track program in 2000. The voluntary program only accepts facilities with established records of compliance, which participate in community outreach activities, and believe that meeting mere regulatory compliance isn't enough.