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Granular-activated carbon may be the ideal solution for removing organic material from water.
Florida student engineers help design the nation's first LEED Gold-certified water treatment facility.
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How to keep consumers apprised of unregulated compounds without creating a panic.
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Although it's been used in water treatment for more than a century, ozone is becoming an increasingly attractive option for drinking water systems nationwide.
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State regulators could start electronically sharing large volumes of water system compliance monitoring data with the US Environmental Protection Agency annually, under an agreement signed in October.
Although less than 2% of the nation's drinking water plants use membranes for filtration, Manitowoc Public Utilities in Wisconsin and the Kennewick Public Works Department in Washington are using the technology to produce additional clean water without significant additional expense.
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Wholesale supplier Tampa Bay Water has begun selling water produced by the nation's largest reverse-osmosis seawater desalination facility. So far, the customers are public utilities in Florida's Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas counties and the cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, and Tampa.
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Many other coastal states, such as Florida, Texas, Hawaii, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisiana face unprecedented drought and shortages of traditional water resources such as lakes, fresh water aquifers, and rivers.
The California desalination initiative is expected to yield more than 20 new projects statewide that would supply 400 to 500 mgd of new drinking water by 2020 and provide up to 10% of the state's total water demand by 2030.
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Gone are the days when “green building” meant modest structures made with recycled products. The term now applies to modern marvels of construction in all areas of public infrastructure.