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 […]
Ozone Helps Milwaukee Achieve High Drinking Water Quality
The City of Milwaukee’s drinking water gets high marks when it comes to “quality”. The Environmental Protection Agency requires every public water supplier around the country to publish its annual report. Technology has influenced the utility’s ability to get ahead of the requirement curve. More than 150 instruments continuously monitor the entire water treatment process. […]
Bio Treatment with Ozone Reduces Wastewater Sludge
Biological treatment plus ozone can reduce the amount of sludge coming from wastewater treatment plants by a factor of 10. The process was developed by the Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Italian National Research Council. Biological processes are said to offer the cheapest way to treat industrial wastewater but pollutants from industries such as […]
US Rivers Require Continued Environmental Protection
American Rivers today released its annual list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers. American Rivers named the Potomac River, known as ‘the nation’s river’ as it flows through the capital, the most endangered in the country. While the Potomac is cleaner than it used to be, the river is still threatened by urban and agricultural pollution– […]
Indian City Looks to Ozone Drinking Water Treatment
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) is considering switching over to ozone water treatment from chlorination to improve water quality. Ozone is a more effective disinfectant and oxidant than chlorine and does not produce as many byproducts that have been found to be potentially damaging to human health. Ozone can also improve […]
MBR Ozone System for Water Reuse in Seafood Processing
Pescados Industrializados of Mazatlan, Mexico, a tuna cannery, has installed a new MBR system with down stream ozone treatment. The primary purpose of the MBR is to treat wastewater from the plant to comply with effluent regulations of the Mexican government. 30% of the effluent is further polished using ozone, AC, RO for reuse in […]
NJ Water Upgraded to Ozone Water Treatment
A team of contractors teaming up on a project to modernize the nearly century-old Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Short Hills. The $78 million venture has been named one of New Jersey’s Leading Infrastructure Projects by the NJ Alliance for Action, a non-profit statewide coalition of more than 2,500 business, labor, professional, academic and […]
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to Spend One Billion Dollars on Ozone
To ensure Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s imported water supplies continue to meet increasingly stringent state and federal regulatory regulations, the district is investing more than $1 billion to retrofit its five treatment plants to ozone water treatment. The two-year spending plan calls for $143 million for continued retrofits at the district’s Robert B. […]
Orange County Reclamation Project a Model for the World
Water Factory 21 (WF21), Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD), was dedicated in a 1977 and transforms secondary municipal wastewater into water that exceeds drinking water standards. In 1991, the Orange County Water District (OCWD) was granted a California Department of Health Services permit to inject 100 percent reclaimed wastewater into a potable water aquifer without […]