Wastewater Digest

Wastewater Digest focuses on providing the latest insights into technology, products, and developments in the municipal wastewater sector. Each month, the publication covers a range of topics, including trends and technologies in wastewater treatment, collection systems, energy management, biosolids treatment and disposal, chemicals, pipe maintenance and repairs, SCADA and automation technology, corrosion and odor control, along with previews and summaries of industry events.

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How the $1.7B Echowater project kept stayed on time and on budget

1 week ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

Major metropolitan water infrastructure projects are bigger, more complex and more expensive than ever. With these sizes, projects like Echo Water in Sacremento can take a decade before they are completed. So how to engineers, contractors, designers, utilities and their stakeholders keep everything straight?
Reflecting on a water legacy: Dean Amhaus announces retirement

1 week ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

For 15 years, Dean Amhaus has led The Water Council in Milwaukee as CEO and president, but just earlier this year he announced his retirement. In this episode, co-Host Bob Crossen speaks with Amhaus about his career, how far the water industry has come, and where it's headed.
What is solids retention time?

1 week ago | wwdmag.com | Saleha (Sally) Kuzniewski

Learn about the significance of solids retention time (SRT) in wastewater treatment, its calculation, and its impact on the quality of treated wastewater and activated sludge. Bob Crossen / Endeavor Business MediaThere are different types of retention times depending on where the wastewater and its component stays during the treatment process. Examples include hydraulic retention time and solids retention time (SRT). SRT is discussed in this article. What is the retention time of wastewater?
How water workers navigate the turbidity of environmental deregulation

2 weeks ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

As discussions mount over deregulatory efforts and dramatic shifts in the regulatory structures in Washington, D.C., the voicese water industry leaders and experts are more important than ever. Greg Newbloom, CEO of Membrion, explains why it is critical for water leaders to be part of how and when deregulation of water and wastewater should be handled.
AI and data centers splash into the water engineering market

2 weeks ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

Started during the BIden administration and continued during the Trump administration, the efforts to onshore or reshore silicon manufacturing and expand data center location across the U.S. are creating business for numerous business markets. Often overlooked is the water component as these manufacturing processes and technologies require a lot of water, sometimes very pure water.
Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) monitoring: Opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning

2 weeks ago | wwdmag.com | Chris Ranck

Artificial intelligence and machine learning basicsArtificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are emerging technologies in the wastewater industry and has been successfully applied in asset management, operational decision support and predictive modeling.
EPA shakes up PFAS regulations

3 weeks ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen |Katie Johns |Mandy Crispin

In this episode of Talking Under Water, the hosts discuss recent industry news, including President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget, which amounts to $4.2 billion in a total funding reduction across the entire agency in 2026 compared to 2025 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Why water investments float over turbulent market waters

3 weeks ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

Bob Crossen is the editorial director for the Endeavor Business Media Water Group, which publishes WaterWorld, Wastewater Digest and Stormwater Solutions. Crossen graduated from Illinois State University in Dec. 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in German and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He worked for Campbell Publications, a weekly newspaper company in rural Illinois outside St. Louis for four years as a reporter and regional editor.
Water infrastructure construction optimism outweighs tariff uncertainties

1 month ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

Within the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump issued and walked back a handful of tariff announcements aimed at bolstering U.S. manufacturing and trade. These on-again-off-again announcements created an uncertain future for David Burkhart, CEO of Garney Construction, as he strategized business opportunities for 2025. Despite that uncertainty, he also recognizes opportunities for construction in the #water and #wastewater markets.
The first full scale implementation of MABR

1 month ago | wwdmag.com | Bob Crossen

Yorkville-Bristol Sanitary District was the first full scale implementation of Veolia's ZeeLung membrane aerated bioreator (MABR) technology in the world in 2017. Faced with continuous residential and industrial growth, estimates to expand the plant across a creek running through the property was cost-prohibitive. Then came a promise of new wastewater intensification technology for a fraction of the cost. • The largest groundwater recharge plant in the world