Brewing & Winemaking: Sustainable Treatment Options for High-Strength Effluent Challenges

Brewing and winemaking are water-intensive operations and generate significant quantities of high-strength pollutant wastewaters, presenting unique challenges in terms of water management and wastewater treatment.

Routes from Sewage Sludge to Phosphate Supply

Phosphorus is a non-renewable resource mined in only a few locations. As such, recovery of phosphorus from secondary sources is increasingly being recognized as being a part of a more sustainable wastewater treatment process.

WaterWorld Weekly Newscast: Dec. 21, 2015

Join WaterWorld's Angela Godwin for a round-up of this week's top water and wastewater stories.

This week's headlines:

• WOTUS social media blitz deemed 'covert propaganda'
• NJ water operator pleads guilty to falsifying water test data
• Flint Mayor declares state of emergency over lead in water
• 'Sponge Park' to help manage NYC stormwater

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Tammy Bernier elected as 2015 WWEMA Chairman

As the new chair of the Water & Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association, Ms. Bernier will provide leadership to the organization, which is now in its 107th year as a key voice of the industry.

Water Environment Research Foundation and WateReuse Research Foundation to merge

The two organizations believe that merging will create synergies, reduce future water research redundancy, and further the evolution toward a unified voice for water.

Nation's largest seawater desalination plant enhances water supply reliability for San Diego County

San Diego region commemorates history-making project, dedicates new plant in honor of former Carlsbad Mayor Claude 'Bud' Lewis.

Industrial Water News

Research reveals new technique for removal of strontium from wastewater

Researchers at Okayama University are hopeful that their HAP column technique could be useful for removing strontium 90 from wastewater as well as natural water in the environment.

Ovivo bags ultrapure water projects in Asia

Ovivo has been awarded two large contracts for a combined value of over US$10.2 million in the Asian Electronics market.

Progressive Water Treatment commissions $1M installation for Texas refinery

OriginClear subsidiary Progressive Water Treatment has put into operation a 750 gallon per minute (GPM) Multiple Media Filtration, Softener and Reverse Osmosis (RO) system for a 75,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Tyler, Texas.

Michigan brewer installs Cambrian Innovation's EcoVolt Mini

Northern United Brewing Company is utilizing Cambrian's EcoVolt Mini to convert high-strength wastewater into reusable quality water.

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