Water is a resource that is often taken for granted. As we see the effects of climate change and population growth, the challenges we will face regarding water supply and availability will only increase. Examples of this are beginning to surface extensively in many areas of the world. In Adelaide, Australia, the Murray River has long supplied Adelaide with its source of water however the Murray River has seen extensive overuse for potable, agricultural and industrial use and now combined with changing weather patterns, Adelaide is in trouble. In North America you need look no further than Lake Lanier in Georgia which is essentially the sole source for Atlanta’s water supply and is once again approaching a critically low period where Atlanta’s water supply could be threatened. In Las Vegas and the US Southwest, the Colorado River which supplies Lake Mead and the Hoover dam is in a critical low period and this supply is seriously threatened. Unless weather patterns change water supply in these regions will continue to have increased challenges with population growth and dwindling resources.
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“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”–The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Many topics of conversation among oil and gas industry professionals are predictable – oil price trends, the “great shift change” imperiling the available workforce, and production quotas and caps from OPEC. Yet one pressing topic among those developing unconventional shale reservoirs would likely be eye-opening to an outsider—the pressures of sourcing and disposing...
DescriptionReleases of petroleum contaminants from a retail gasoline station in a medium-sized California Central Valley town threatened a municipal supply well immediately adjacent and approximately 200 ft downgradient to the station. Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) was present in groundwater concentrations up to 30,000 micrograms per liter (µg/L) and GRO up to 33,000 µg/L in the first-encountered groundwater aquifer, between 30 to 45 feet below ground surface (BGS). The concern was that the MTBE...
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An undocumented surface spill at an active manufacturing facility located adjacent to a public water supply well field released chlorinated volatile organic compounds (PCE, and its breakdown products: TCE, c-DCE, and VC) into soils and groundwater. The driver for site cleanup was three water supply wells located 200 feet downgradient of the site bounds. The chosen endpoint remediation technology was ozone sparging employing the KTI C-Sparge™ process to reach the target cleanup criteria of EPA...
Hearing the name ‘Jon Snow’ may bring Kit Harington’s face to the forefront of many people’s mind as an important character in ‘Game of Thrones’ but, for water treatment and public health professionals, there is another iconic ‘John Snow’ that may come to mind.
Dr. John Snow, an English physician born in 1813, contributed greatly to our understanding of anesthesia, epidemiology, public health, and – through the simple act of data mapping – changed the...
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