As a follower of this blog will be aware, the majority of surface water treatment systems in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and North Texas have added ozone to their treatment process. Currently, more than 130,000 lbs/day of ozone capacity is installed to treat up to 2.5 billion gallons per day (BGD) of drinking water in […]
Month: June 2012
Orange County Opens New Ozone Water Treatment Plant
Orange County has opened its new Southern Regional water supply facility, which can produce up to 30 million gallons of drinking water a day. The new facility pumps water from 6 wells driven deep into the lower Floridan Aquifer. The water’s cleaned with ozone and piped out to 21 thousand homes and businesses in the […]
Australian Floods May Have Been Prevented by Water Reuse Schemes
The long Australian drought increase interest in Australia for people to talk seriously about recycling our sewage to use as drinking water. It is possible that if recycling schemes had been in place, the massive floods that followed last year might not have happened. There are two kinds of recycled water: ‘Indirect potable reuse’ or […]
Ozone Seen as a Potential Treatment for Endocrine Disruptors in Water
The European Environment Agency, EEA, has warned that products containing endocrine disrupting chemicals should be treated with caution until their true effects are better known. A few such chemicals have already been banned, but many are still in widespread use. Recent studies have shown that endocrine disruption has serious effects on wildlife. Impact on people […]