water reuse technology Articles
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Optimizing Industrial Wastewater Treatment in Mexico - Tighter Regulation and Water Scarcity
Water scarcity in many Mexican states and the lack of solutions to boost water supplies has required industrial companies to implement and optimize industrial wastewater treatment in Mexico across their companies. The requirements for optimizing, retrofitting and adding new treatment systems to enable water recycling and reuse has become critically important to these industrial ...
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What is Industrial Water Reuse & Why Is It Important?
Pressure on water resources not only in the USA but across the world are leading to increasing water scarcity concerns among companies and communities alike that are competing for suitable quantities of water. From the US west coast to Africa and Asia, water scarcity has become the primary driver for water reuse initiatives alongside desalination strategies. Water professionals in these water ...
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Drastic Measures Proposed as Chilean Drought Enters 13th Year
As millions face cuts to water use, how can desalination and water reuse increase water resilience? In a recent news conference, Claudio Orrego, governor of Chile’s Santiago metropolitan region, had a hard fact for the city’s nearly 7 million residents: “A city can’t live without water.” For the first time in Santiago’s 481-year history, there might not be ...
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Water Reuse’s Role in Water-Scarce South Africa
The Development Bank of South Africa is among the voices calling for increased investment in water reuse technology According to estimates from the United Nations, 1.8 billion people around the world will live with absolute water scarcity by 2050, meaning they will have access to less than 500m3 per capita in water supplies. Today, Sub-Saharan Africa has more water-stressed countries than any ...
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Disruptive Technology for Water: Resource Recovery
In the third of his series of blog posts looking at disruptive technologies in the water sector, Matt Hale shines a light on benefits and challenges of resource recovery. Resource recovery is a key aspect of a true circular economy. Not only are there the economic and environmental benefits from the products themselves, but every cubic metre of recycled or reused water results in a corresponding ...
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Frac Water Reuse Technologies - Case Study
The Challenge The worldwide energy sector has accelerated the development of its unconventional oil and gas resources through increased use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing practices. Water is an essential element in the fracturing process and the recycling or reuse of spent water can dramatically reduce costs. The volume of water required to fracture a well varies, but it ...
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An Aquifer Recharge Success Story
Idahoans work together to replenish the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer With so much bad news about depletion of global freshwater resources, often about crises that could have been prevented with forethought and preparation, it’s always good to hear a success story. And Idahoans can be proud of the managed aquifer recharge (MAR) program that contributed to the success. The Eastern ...
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Innovative Water Use Revolutionizing Mining
A holistic approach to water sustainability is necessary in an age of intensifying water scarcity Growth in the mining water and wastewater treatment market is globally driven by a mining industry striving for waterless operation and greater sustainability. Concerns over where to source water are unavoidable during a period of depleted resources and a proliferation of regulation, forcing the ...
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Water Treatment Membranes and Their Processes
Filtering out contaminants, even at the nano scale, membranes are a mainstay of water and wastewater treatments In water treatment, membranes are barriers that allow water to pass through but stop unwanted substances from passing through with it. Working much like the cell walls in our bodies, technical membranes filter out salts, impurities, viruses, and other particles from water. A membrane ...
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World Filtration Congress Environment Symposium Focuses on Technologies That Combat Air and Water Pollution
Co-chaired by Prof. Chao Tan and Dr. Shagufta Patel, the Environment Symposium at the 13th World Filtration Congress will focus on the role of filtration and separation to remove the ever-increasing volume of contaminants in earth’s air and water. Air Pollution Today, we live in a polluted world filled with particulates and harmful gases in the air due to the results of human activities, ...
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How GWT AOP Advanced Oxidation Systems Helped Companies to Achieve Better Water Treatment Results
AOP Advanced Oxidation Systems, How GWT Has Helped Companies To Treat Emerging Pollutants If you’ve read our article on the benefits of a Genesis Water Technologies, Inc. AOP advanced oxidation system, you are probably curious to know about some examples of how our systems have helped some of our clients. We will look at a couple of case studies from the oil and gas ...
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Rural-to-Urban Water Allocations Draining Countryside Dry
The review of more than 100 articles looked at 69 greater metropolitan areas that are acquiring 16 billion m3 of water through 103 reallocation projects to support 383 million people. One proposed solution is recycling wastewater for reuse in irrigation A new Oxford-led review published in Environmental Research Letters found that, particularly in the Global South, cities are draining their ...
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Electrocoagulation: The Optimized Tool for Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment
Electrocoagulation: The Optimized Tool for RO Preatment Reverse Osmosis Desalination (RO) is used to treat water that comes from a variety of water sources across the world. From the brackish water of certain rivers and lakes, to the sources of tertiary municipal and industrial wastewater for reuse, this technology provides great versatility to its operator. It is because of the variability of ...
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EPA Action Plan Takes Leads on Water Reuse
Government agencies and private organizations will collaborate to advance acceptance of water recycling The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the initial development of a Water Reuse Action Plan that will guide the agency’s work in encouraging reuse in the water sector. The purpose of the plan is to create an integrated management approach for U.S. water ...
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5 Misconceptions of Why Municipalities Should not Invest In Wastewater Reuse
In the current economic and political climate, municipalities are under immense pressure with regard to water reclamation. Balancing the physical and financial responsibility to provide affordable, clean, and reliable water to its constituents comes at a cost that for most, small to mid-sized municipalities, is hard to justify. However, municipalities have began to acknowledge the growing ...
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Water Issues in the Seafood Industry
Processing fish produces an effluent that’s difficult to treat because of its high levels of nutrients. Aquaculture and processing present challenges in terms of water footprint and pollution The seafood industry has been growing around the world, and attention to attendant water issues has been increasing as well. Seafood consumption has grown 3.6% annually since 1961, which is double ...
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Water Use in the U.S. Fracking Boom
A pumpjack removes oil in West Texas’ Permian Basin. Fracking, a method of loosening oil and gas from rock, is using up large amounts of fresh water in the productive region. Water reuse and desalination stand to decrease depletion of freshwater resources The Permian sedimentary basin, which covers much of dry West Texas and overlaps the southeastern corner of New Mexico, is ...
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Forests Serve as Freshwater Infrastructure
Mountain meadows and forests play an important role in capturing and slowly releasing precipitation. Restoring watershed headwaters is examined as a water storage strategy A global realization is dawning about the pressing need for more freshwater storage infrastructure to support growing populations in our time of climate change. Faced with the astronomical costs of constructing such ...
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Forests Serve as Freshwater Infrastructure
Restoring watershed headwaters is examined as a water storage strategy A global realization is dawning about the pressing need for more freshwater storage infrastructure to support growing populations in our time of climate change. Faced with the astronomical costs of constructing such infrastructure, however, water management is beginning to look at existing natural features that can serve the ...
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Pulp and Paper Industry Facing Water Issues
Water-reuse and waste-to-energy technologies can lessen environmental impact The pulp and paper (P&P) industry is one of the largest users of water in the industrial economy of the United States. It requires an average of 54 m3 of water to produce a metric ton of pulp or paper, and almost all phases of manufacturing require water. On the downstream side, P&P mills also create ...
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