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The 411 for Water Treatment Professionals
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DESIRÉE SYKES Industry411
Most water treatment professionals are used to the day-to-day analysis of water and maintenance that comes with the job. Howbeit, not all are prepared for a drinking water contamination incident such as E.coli. Is your team ready to respond when an emergency strikes?
Unfortunately, this topic hits close to home for me. As a resident of Tyler and customer of TWU, I was quick to learn about a boil notice issued by the City of Tyler for E.coli contamination, and of course, was mildly horrified. The boil notice didn’t last long, though; the city lifted it the following day at 11 am. After talking with other residents and customers of TWU, to my surprise, this was not the first time the city has had water quality issues. Feeling concerned, I reached out to the City and asked if it was normal after E.coli detection in a water sample to only have a 24-hour boil notice for customers?
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A Celebrity-Studded L.A. Water District Has a Big Drought Idea
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A water district best known for supplying the celebrity-studded enclaves of Calabasas and Hidden Hills could soon become famous for a very different reason. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District recently partnered with California- based OceanWell to study the feasibility of harvesting drinking water from desalination pods placed on the ocean floor, several miles off the coast of California. The pilot project, which will begin in Las Virgenes’ reservoir near Westlake Village, hopes to establish the nation’s first-ever “blue water farm.”
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Researchers Find Harmful ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Across Georgia
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Your tap water could be filled with toxic chemicals linked to cancer and impaired immunity. Researchers are drilling down to the most contaminated taps in metro Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a new round of testing has revealed “forever chemicals” in the drinking water of “nearly a dozen systems across Georgia.” The 11 water systems out of 52 tested so far that reported contamination include Clayton County, Austell and Covington.
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Feds Push for Urgent Repairs of Cross-Border Sewage Treatment Plant in Hilary Aftermath
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Federal border officials are calling for urgent repairs of a Southern California facility that treats sewage from Tijuana, Mexico, after the already deteriorating facility incurred additional damage from Tropical Storm Hilary. The U.S. branch of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) announced Thursday that it has formulated an $8 million recovery plan for the facility, presented the previous day at a hearing of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
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Lithium Tech Developers Eye Ways to Boost Water Recycling
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The mining industry is working to boost freshwater recycling while also developing direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies as it races to reinvent how the battery metal is produced for the green energy transition, executives said. The surging global demand for lithium has sparked widespread interest in DLE technologies, which use less land and can operate far faster than hard rock mining and brine evaporation ponds - the traditional ways to process the white metal...
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Local Water Plant Fire Causes Ongoing Boil Advisory
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A boil water advisory is still in effect for consumers of the Chatham-Kent Municipal Water Distribution Systems. The advisory was put in place on Wednesday, September 13 after a fire at the Wheatley Water Treatment Plant. The Chatham-Kent Public Utilities Commission continues to assess the damage caused by the fire.
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‘It’s an Emergency’: Midwest Towns Scramble as Drought Threatens Drinking Water
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James Rainbolt typically can tackle most problems at his rural water plant with some extra time or money. But he can’t fix this. “I just can’t make it rain,” he said. Like others across Southeast Kansas, Rainbolt remains helpless as he watches a persistent drought dry up the local water supply. He runs a public wholesale water supply district that provides the drinking water for several cities and rural water districts. The lack of rain has been so severe that it’s now threatening the water district’s intake pipe...
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After Nearly a Month, West Virginia Community Can Use Water Again
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Residents of a northern West Virginia community can use their tap water again after nearly a month, officials said. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources approved a request on Tuesday to lift a “do not consume” notice for customers of Paden City Water Works. Residents of Paden City were told not to use their tap water on Aug. 16 after a pump valve malfunctioned at a water treatment plant and allowed the release of a hazardous solvent, tetrachloroethylene, in the...
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