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Alternative Disinfectants such as Ozone Taking Share from Chlorine

World demand for water disinfection products is projected to increase 5.5 percent per year to $7.7 billion in 2016. There is continued concern about disinfection byproducts (DBPs), outbreaks of waterborne illness continue to occur even in developed countries as pathogens … Continue reading

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Sequester to Affect Water Funding According to the EPA

The Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act include revolving loan funds to help states finance drinking water purification and sewage treatment facilities—both of which are essential to the country’s public-health infrastructure. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that: … Continue reading

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US EPA Launches App to Let Users Check Waterway Health

The US EPA has launched a new app and website that let’s users check on the health of waterways anywhere in the US. It provides information on thousands of lakes, rivers and streams across the US. The release of the … Continue reading

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Korean Drinking Water Plant Purchases First Advanced Oxidation Treatment Process

A municipal drinking water system in a new high-tech industrial zone in South Korea has contracted for an ultraviolet (UV) advanced oxidation process (AOP) treatment technology. This is the firts time such a technology will be applied in Korea for … Continue reading

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Americans Show Interest in Wastewater Reuse

Most Americans have limited knowledge about their drinking water supply,but they are concerned about it, and believe recycling water is something that should be considered according to a recent survey. However, Americans are less accepting of drinking recycled wastewater in … Continue reading

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Portland, Maine Upgrades Water Treatment Plant with UV and Ozone

A major upgrade to the Sebago Lake Water Treatment Facility has been started for the Portland Water District’s treatment facility in Standish at a cost of a $12.8 million. It adds two UV reactors as well as an upgraded ozone … Continue reading

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NSF Presents Papers on UV and Ozone Water Treatment

NSF International water quality and treatment experts will be presenting at the World Aquatic Health Conference October 11 in Norfolk, Va., according to a press release. Their presentations will cover the regulatory and testing considerations for evaluating the efficacy of … Continue reading

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Illinois Country Adopts Advnaced Oxidation for Disinfection, Taste and Odor Control

The Otter Lake Water Commission has submitted is plan, as well as a loan application for nearly $2 million, to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) public water supply loan program. The Otter Lake commission is responsible for water treatment … Continue reading

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Temple University Researcher Studies Ozone UV Water Treatment

Temple environmental engineering professor Rominder Suri, Ph.D. is developing new water treatment techniques. With the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation, Suri works in Temple’s Water and Environmental Technology Center searching for alternative water purification methods. One … Continue reading

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San Diego Uses Advanced Oxidation to Recycle Wastewater

In summer 2011, the City of San Diego opened the Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Facility, a small-scale, state-of-the-art facility that purifies one MGD of recycled water. The facility is one component of the City’s Water Purification Demonstration Project that is … Continue reading

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