Water Sustainability Blog
News on the world's most precious resource, including the latest in research, trends, and treatment advances
What Is Water Scarcity?
Whether it's from drought or lack of access, more than a billion people around the world don't have enough clean water Acute drought conditions and dwindling natural water resources are focusing more attention on what continues to be a worldwide problem: a lack of...
What Is Energy Recovery?
Processes like incineration and anaerobic digestion not only provide sources of energy, but they also reduce waste volume The term "energy recovery" often is applied only to a narrow number of methods for converting wastes into energy, when in fact it applies to a...
Solutions for Removing Arsenic from Drinking Water
Arsenic, a metalloid element, is found in many naturally occurring compounds. In its inorganic form, arsenic is toxic. Arsenic occurs naturally in some groundwater supplies worldwide, including in the drinking water supplies in parts of Taiwan, Japan, Bangladesh, and...
Fighting Saltwater Intrusion Into Groundwater Supplies
As freshwater supplies around the world diminish, human intervention is needed to protect existing sources to slow the onset of water scarcity. One ongoing struggle is to preserve the water in underground aquifers, which cities often rely on for drinking water....
Making the Aeration Process More Efficient
When discussing aeration, the topic of efficiency often arises, but what does this really mean to those of us treating wastewater? The word efficient means "achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense." For wastewater treatment operators, this...
Effective Waste-to-Energy Processes for Treating Challenging Effluents
Waste-to-energy is an important technology that can help companies become more sustainable not only by reducing waste volume, but also by producing gas that can be reused at the plant or used for generating electricity, which can offset operational costs and even be...
