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Delivering Water Sector Transformation Project By Project: Menno Holterman, Nijhuis Saur Industries
Menno Holterman, Chief Executive of Netherlands engineering company Nijhuis Saur Industries, shares his views on water sector transformation, including investment, collaboration, and moving beyond compliance.
Delivering Holistic Solutions To Solve Water Challenges: Kamakshi Sharma, Aquatech International
Kamakshi Sharma, Director of Marketing and Strategy for water technology company Aquatech International, shares her views on data-driven decision-making, sustaining sustainability, and turning water technology into a service.
What Are The Priorities Of Water Utilities For 2022-2023?
This article is the second in a new series of occasional articles we’re calling “From the Field”, in which water professionals share their thoughts on an issue or trend that is relevant to water utilities around the world.
Critical Role Of GIS In Digital Water Transformation: Agendra Kumar, MD, Esri India
Technologies like GIS have a vital role to play in managing the scarcity and safety of water, utility operations, monitoring, and treatment. GIS, when coupled with promising emerging technologies like IoT, enables remote sensing of water, which brings excellent outcomes in water accounting, non-revenue water remediation, and more.
Connecting Water Technology Community For Radical Impact: Snehal Desai, Evoqua
With water undergoing a transformation, industrial end-users are increasingly embedding sustainable solutions within their operations. Snehal Desai, Chief Growth and Sustainability Officer at Evoqua Water Technologies, says change need not be daunting.
PROJECTS TRACKER
Brown And Caldwell Supports Metro Vancouver With Upgrades At World’s Largest Trickling Filter Solids Contact Wastewater Facility
Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant treats 196 billion liters of wastewater annually, serving approx. 1.25 million residents in 14 municipalities.
Cambi Has Been Awarded A Turnkey Contract In Copenhagen
Used to treat the secondary sludge before anaerobic digestion, thermal hydrolysis plant will increase efficiency of existing digesters, eliminating the need to build new ones.
IDE Water Technologies To Design Largest SWRO Desalination Plant In Brazil
IDE expects to bring sustainable water solution to Brazil’s drought-stricken city of Fortaleza.
SUEZ To Improve Energy Efficiency At Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant In Canada
The new systems will replace two aging biosolids incinerators and improve the plant’s overall energy efficiency and air quality emissions.
Abengoa Participates In Selection Process For Development Of Largest Desalination Plant In Africa
The plant will have a capacity of 548,000 m3 per day, expandable to 822,000 m3, and will use reverse osmosis technology to meet the demand for drinking water and irrigation for some 5,000 hectares of land.
Temporary Wastewater Treatment Unit Helps Nursing Home Meet Consent
In a rural location and not connected to the public sewer, the property is served by an onsite wastewater treatment plant and reed bed.
Portland Water District In USA To Map Out Sustainable Wastewater Future
Portland Water District is developing a biosolids masterplan for long-term resiliency and reliability.
L&T Wins Contract For Bandra Wastewater Treatment Facility Under Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project – Stage II
The project scope includes design, build, operation and maintenance of a 360 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant with a provision to generate inhouse power.
Veolia To Expand And Modernize A Paper Mill’s Wastewater Plant In Switzerland
Thurpapier, one of the oldest paper mills for high-quality corrugated cardboard packaging in Switzerland, has commissioned Veolia Water Technologies Germany to expand and modernize its wastewater treatment.
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UPCOMING ISSUE
JULY-AUGUST 2022:
Theme: INNOVATIONS IN MUNICIPAL WATER & UTILITIES
Content & Ad Closing Date: 30 July 2022
Tech Focus: Automation, Biological, Biosolids, Contamination, Desalination, Digital, Disinfection, Filtration, Floods, Leak Detection, Membranes, Meters, Networks, Pipes, Pumps, Reclamation, Reuse, Sludge, Softwares, Solid Waste, Tanks, Valves, Wastewater, Water Loss
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022:
Theme: INNOVATIONS IN DOMESTIC WATER PURIFICATION MARKET
Content & Ad Closing Date: 20 September 2022
Tech Focus: Activated Carbon, Chemicals, Dosing Pumps, ETP & STP Media, Filtration Components, Plants & Systems, Instrumentation, Membranes, Pumps, Resins, UV Systems, Vessels, Water Purifiers
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2022:
Theme: 4th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE – WASTEWATER 360˚
Content & Ad Closing Date: 20 November 2022
Tech Focus: Aeration, Automation, Biological, Biosolids, Blowers, Clarification, Collection, Contamination, Disinfection, Effluent, Filtration, Flow Control, Instrumentation, Membranes, Mixing, MSW, Nutrient Removal, Odor, Pumps, Reuse, SCADA, Separation, Sewage, Sewers, Sludge, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Valves, ZLD
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Dr. H2O Column
Digital Transformations As Part Of Solution For Wicked Problems: Report From Waterinfodag 2022
The ‘waterinfodag’ is a yearly networking event filled with presentations and discussions on applying digital techniques within the water sector.
7 Key Takeaways From The SWAN 2022 Conference
This year’s theme, “Connecting Innovation to Impact” focused on the economic, social, and environmental impact of smart water.
Dream Of Water Treatment Plant Operator? Fewer Disruptions!
With water and wastewater systems operators under increasing pressure to run facilities smoothly and efficiently, Mike St Germain, Vice President – Process Industries, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS), explores challenges that need to be addressed.
Blog: Beating India’s Carbon Chase – Part 2
Every building and the city is first a ‘Water Economy’ – just good water management will help meet nearly 25 percent of India’s 2030 carbon reduction target.
Blog: Beating India’s Carbon Chase – Part 1
While India is a world leader in green buildings today, there is a great deal more that bulk water- and energy-users have to do while the Government plays its role.
Book Review: Climate Change And Environment. How It Impacts Us All.
Image Credit (Book Cover): Notion Press Review By Pallavi Singh VERDICT: Environment learning beyond classrooms...this new book by the Chicago-based Dr. Vasudevan Rajaram, and India-lovers Keith Olson and New York City-based Lynn Tiede serves as a useful handbook for...
Only One Earth: Help it Survive
The global campaign of this year calls for collective and transformative action to celebrate, protect and restore our planet.
World Environment Day: Our Earth Requires Healing
“Only One Earth” is precisely the theme of World Environment Day 2022, very thoughtfully selected by the United Nations.
Product News
KETOS SHIELD Expands Water Quality Monitoring Capabilities Detecting For Ammonia, Nitrates And Sulfates
Identifying the concentration of ammonia, nitrates and sulfates in water is essential to safeguard human health.
Mueller Launches Newest Addition To Mi.Net Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) System
This Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) endpoint solution is designed for water network agility, enabling utilities to connect meters to their AMI network in specific areas or across the entire distribution system.
LANXESS Increases Prices For Ion Exchange Resins And Iron Oxide Adsorbers
Ion exchange resins and iron oxide adsorbers are used in numerous industries and applications to purify water and other liquid media effectively.
NIVUS Presents Street-Precise Early Warning Of Heavy Rainfall
NIVUS has launched FloodLead – a sensor-based AI system for emergency services, municipalities, citizens and industry.
Emerson Releases New Compact Controllers Which Increase ROI For Machine Builders
Hydraloop is a consumer-friendly water recycling system that reduces water consumption by up to 45 percent.
KSB Introduces Safety Boost Break Tank Package Booster Sets For Drinking Water
The new KSB Safety Boost break tank package booster set separates the mains water from spray irrigation and service water systems.
Sulzer Launches Extended VM Vertically Suspended Sump Pumps
The VM pump range has been designed for pumping all kinds of clean and contaminated liquids and slurry.
Smith & Loveless Launches PISTA INVORSOR For Ultra-Fine Grit Removal
PISTA INVORSOR by Smith & Loveless is Designed to capture industry-best ultra-fine grit particles down to 75-micron particles across all flow conditions.
Endress+Hauser Broadens Its Mobile Calibration Services
Endress+Hauser Broadens Online Mobile Calibration Services for instrumentation including flow, pressure, and temperature.
Fresh Case Studies
Dream Of Water Treatment Plant Operator? Fewer Disruptions!
With water and wastewater systems operators under increasing pressure to run facilities smoothly and efficiently, Mike St Germain, Vice President – Process Industries, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS), explores challenges that need to be addressed.
Case Study: Better Water For A Better City
GEA’s environmental decanters are playing a key role in a massive drive to treat wastewater and clean up urban and rural lakes and rivers in Bengaluru region. These decanters reclaim millions of liters of water from processed sewage sludge.
Helping A Large Scale Fish Floating Raceway In Ontario
This case study shows Airlift Pumps performance and for successful integration of these pumps into Aquaculture systems.
Asset Planning Software Brings Finnish Utility Cost Savings
Finnish multi-utility Alva is the first in Scandinavia to fully implement Ovarro’s PIONEER asset investment planning software across its water and sewer networks.
Fully Automated, Chemical Free, Low Energy Desalination Plant On A Caribbean Island
New Bonaire Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant has added 5,600 m3/day to the existing desalination units, increasing total water supply to 7,200 m3/day.
Enabling Thrissur Municipal Corporation For WET (Water Efficient Thrissur)
Water Efficient Thrissur (WET) is an integration solution of GIS with Internet of Things (IoT) to optimize water utility management and get a data-driven decision support system to reduce Non-Revenue Water (NRW).
ZLD Technology Disruptor: Carrier Gas Extraction
Industrial sectors including Textile, Pharma, Pulp and Paper, Chlor-alkali, Sugar, Power, Dye and Dye-intermediates, Petrochemicals, Steel, and Fertilizer have implemented ZLD based on mandates from state pollution control boards.
Recycling Sewage Wastewater And Reusing For Industrial Applications
An Automotive Industry biggie in India generates 300 m3 of sewage wastewater. The idea was to recycle its treated STP effluent and reuse it. This case study shows how a Hybrid RO technology helps achieve it.
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