Water Sustainability Blog

Decentralized treatment ideally suited for plan's focus on rural waterway remediation As China rolled out its latest 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP) in 2016, Charles Buckley and Vanessa Piao of The New York Times reported some striking statements from China. Chinese media...

In dissolved air flotation (DAF), fine bubbles attach themselves to suspended matter in a liquid, floating them to the surface for removal Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is a water treatment technology often used for the pretreatment of source water, but what exactly...

Water reuse is becoming increasingly important as water scarcity becomes prevalent throughout the world. Whether it's referred to as water reuse, water recycling, water reclamation, or another name, the resulting purified wastewater can be used in many applications,...

Activated sludge treatment is a time-tested wastewater treatment that uses bacteria and other microorganisms to break down organic pollutants.

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...

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...