To the RESCU: Lessons from Using Progressive Design-Build to Deliver Agency’s Largest Program
Silicon Valley Clean Water (SVCW), a water resource recovery agency in California, is nearly complete with its major infrastructure and…
Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Water Resources: Risk, Mitigation, Guidance and Policy Updates
Pharmaceuticals in the environment (PiE) are released mainly through anthropogenic activities such as patient use and concentrated sources from manufacturing,…
LLMs in Action: Practical Applications for Water Utilities
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the water and environmental sectors. In 2025, two Texas water and wastewater utilities…
Simplified Modeling of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Breakthrough Using Granular Activated Carbon for Groundwater Treatment
Breakthrough-curve (BC) predictions for newly regulated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using granular activated carbon (GAC) are needed by drinking…
Is Low-DO the Way to Go?
Research shows low-dissolved-oxygen operation can help WRRFs reduce resource consumption while enhancing treatment performance
Review of full-scale advanced anaerobic digestion in North America
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the distribution and performance of advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies across the United…
Selective dysprosium/terbium recovery from mine waste using ion-specific alkali/urea chitosan hydrogels
Heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), particularly dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb), are essential for high-performance magnets yet challenging to separate…
Enhancing Drinking Water Treatment Resilience to Wildfire Events
Wildfires can cause costly long-term treatment issues by challenging coagulant dosing, filtration effectiveness, and disinfection efficacy, elevating disinfection by-product formation,…
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in untreated and treated sludge/biosolids from 27 water resource recovery facilities across the United States and Canada
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are being studied in all environmental matrices because of their ubiquitous presence and adverse human…
Vacuum evaporation coupled with anaerobic digestion for process intensification and ammonia recovery: Model development, validation and scenario analysis
A mathematical model for vacuum evaporation process was developed, which was experimentally validated at different initial pHs and temperatures for…
Microplastics from different viewpoints
A growing body of scientific literature reporting potential human health risks caused by microplastics and the presence of microplastics in…