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Decentralized Treatment: System Features Fixed Film Media Filters, Drip Irrigation Disposal – WaterWorld

June 17, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

Decentralized Treatment: System Features Fixed Film Media Filters, Drip Irrigation Disposal – WaterWorld.

The project involved installation of proprietary AeroCell System from Quanics Inc. for treatment and a Geoflow Drip Irrigation system for effluent disposal.

By Brian Borders

The destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 has forever impacted the Gulf Coast. The devastation and subsequent rebuilding has led to a shift in ideology from just simply “building back” to “building better” to reduce the impact of a similar storm in the future.

The Jackson County Utility Authority, hard hit by the storm, recently began development of decentralized wastewater infrastructure in Big Point and Wade, Miss. Neel-Schaffer Engineering of Jackson, Miss., was selected as the design engineer for the projects. The firm selected a fixed film media filter as the technology of choice to provide advanced wastewater treatment, followed by drip irrigation to disperse the highly-treated wastewater back into the environment.

Decentralized Systems, Innovation In Sanitation, Integrated Water Resources, Sustainable Water Management, Water

Veolia Water to build wastewater plant based on Organica system in France – Water Technology

April 8, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

Veolia Water to build wastewater plant based on Organica system in France – Water Technology.

France-based water company Veolia Water’s subsidiary MSE has won a contract from the Vienne Water and Wastewater Authority (SIVEER) to construct a wastewater facility based on its Organica system.

The plant will be built in Les Trois-Moutiers commune, in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France, to treat wastewater from Les Trois Moutiers and Vienne Center Parcs holiday village.

The wastewater facility has been designed with a capacity for 8,000 people, of which 6,500 is for Center Parcs.

The Organica system blends conventional wastewater treatment technology with an ecosystem.

As part of the technology, the roots of plants are grown under a glasshouse and running up to depths of 1.5m into the effluent to promote the growth of bacteria and living organisms to treat the effluent.

The facility will treat contamination in wastewater, while consuming less energy compared to a conventional wastewater plant.

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Water Utilities Need Holistic View of Energy Consumption, says Report | Energy Manager Today

April 6, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

Water Utilities Need Holistic View of Energy Consumption, says Report | Energy Manager Today.

Water Utilities Need Holistic View of Energy Consumption, says Report

April 5, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

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The Water Research Foundation’s Toolbox for Water Utility Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Management aims to develop a global framework for energy use and greenhouse gas emission (GHG) assessment for the water industry.

There is a close link between energy and water consumption: the water-energy nexus. For many components of the urban water cycle, energy is the number one operational cost after staff, and is the number one source of GHG emissions. Energy management and GHG accounting tools are proliferating. However, because they are typically developed in response to differing location and sector-specific needs, no universally accepted methodologies that support the unique needs of the water sector currently exist, according to the Water Research Foundation.

Water utilities around the world are responding to energy-use pressures and GHG reporting needs differently. This variability is driven by three fundamentally different situations that water utilities are facing with respect to GHG reporting and energy use requirements: (i) regions with clearly mandated regulatory reporting requirement for either/both GHG and energy, such as the UK; (ii) regions with uncertain or complex regulatory reporting requirements, where some combination of national, state/provincial and voluntary requirements have created a mixture of standards and reporting requirements, such as in the US and the EU; and (iii) regions without regulatory reporting requirements but with some pressure to monitor or reduce GHGs or energy use, such as South Africa and Singapore.

In the first type of environment the reporting standards are clear and tools are in place to enable this reporting. In the second and third types of environment the reporting requirements are unclear and present a variety of options for protocols, methodologies and available tools.

Among the recommendations is to develop methodologies and tools that represent the full range of GHG emissions associated with the urban water cycle or a whole-systems level analysis of emissions. At present most methodologies address GHG emissions from a selected subset of the urban water cycle, such as sourcing, storing, treating and distributing drinking water or treating wastewater, but do not address the water cycle holistically.

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March 11, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

Agenda and approximate start times – all are listed as EST – topics and order are subject to change.

12.15pm Sandra Hempel. Medical Editor and Writer,London, UK
Author of “The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the Mystery of the Broad Street Pump” (Granta)
“The Inheritor’s Powder” (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) will be published on 13th June 2013

12.35pm Michael J. McGuire, MJM, Inc. –
Legacy of Dr. John Snow: Water Filtration & Chlorination in the U.S.
during the 20th Century.

12.55pm Steve Via. American Water Works Association
Dr. John Snow: Impact on U.S. Regulation of Drinking Water

5 minute break

1.20pm Lindsay Olson. Artist In Residence
Raising Awareness About Wastewater Through Art:Manufactured River

1.45pm Deborah Falta. Undergraduate Programs Curriculum Coordinator/Senior Lecturer
Department of Public Health Sciences Clemson University
Miasma and Death by Cholera: Dr. John Snow and the Dawn of the GermTheory of Disease

2.05pm Christl Tate. Shelly Wallingford. National Environmental Health Association
Dr. John Snow: The History of the Sanitarian Profession. How far we’ve come

2.25pm Closing Comments.

You can also submit questions for the presenters during the sessions
via Twitter #BroadStPump to @OWNWMI

* Then on March 15, 1- 3 pm ET join us at #BroadStPump on Twitter to swap your water warrior horror stories or just talk about where Snow would be leading us today?

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Deer Ticks Carry Yet Another Bacterial Threat

January 23, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

Deer Ticks Carry Yet Another Bacterial Threat.

Deer Ticks Carry Yet Another Bacterial Threat

Lyme disease is better known, but a different germ causes an infection that may lead to dementia

By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) — People who go outdoors in several regions of the United States may have something else to worry about. Scientists report that there’s another troublesome germ hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disease bacterium.

There are indications that the germ infects a few thousand Americans a year, potentially causing flu-like symptoms such as fever. In one newly reported case, a woman with existing medical problems appeared to have brain swelling and dementia caused by an infection.

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What If the World’s Soil Runs Out? | TIME.com

January 22, 2013 WasteWater Education Leave a comment

What If the World’s Soil Runs Out? | TIME.com.

This is a “what if” interview from the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network. To view the rest of the series, click here.

It’s a strange notion, but some experts fear the world, at its current pace of consumption, is running out of useable topsoil. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with TIME, talked to University of Sydney professor John Crawford on the seismic implications soil erosion and degradation may have in the decades to come.

Is soil really in danger of running out?