The Coquitlam watershed treatment facility in British Columbia provides approximately 370 MLD, a third of the total water supply delivered in Metro Vancouver. The facility uses the process of ozonation as the primary disinfectant, but has added new UV disinfection equipment to complement the existing ozone and chlorination processes. Construction of the new facility started […]
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Barriers to Water Reuse for Drinking Water in the US
It has been demonstrated that existing technologies for advanced water treatment can successfully upgrade wastewater to drinking water quality in large scale. There are installation for water reuse/water reclaim in California that are treating municipal wastewater to drinking water quality in volumes over 70 MGD. These technologies employed include membrane filtration, RO, UV and ozone. […]
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 such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia lamblia are resistant to chlorine, heightened security and anti-terrorism measures […]
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: Reductions under sequestration would impact states’ ability to meet drinking water public health standards and […]
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 website corresponds to the 40th Anniversity of the Clean Water Act. The app uses GPS […]
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 drinking water. The water treatment facility will treat more than 26 million gallons per day, […]
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 a practice known as toilet-to-tap, the survey found. With clean water growing scarce in much […]
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 water treatment system. The Water District has been designing this system since 2002. Engineers with […]
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 ultraviolet (UV) and ozone water treatment technologies to help ensure the health and safety of […]
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 and for the distribution systems that transmit water to 467 individual and nine wholesale customers […]