How geomembranes help improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment – Part 4
December 20th, 2023
By Felon Wilson “While the environment is a very emotional and even moral issue for most of us, to be effective in the area, as one practitioner put it, you need a good engineer, not a poet.” - James W. Conrad, Counsel, American Chemistry Council In the final segment of our look at geomembrane uses in […]
How geomembranes help to improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment – Part 3
December 11th, 2023
By Felon Wilson “Old ideas are being evaluated and new concepts are being formulated.” George Tchobanoglous, University of California Davis, in Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal and Reuse, 3rd Edition. In this post and the next, geomembrane use in wastewater management will be discussed. The wastewater management system will be broken into two parts: Wastewater Collection and […]
How geomembranes help to improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment – Part 2
November 30th, 2023
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Jacques Yves Cousteau In Part 1: Wastewater Industry in North America,” a brief history of the efforts to deal with wastewater was explored along with estimates of the size of the industry itself. In this post, we will take a look at the current […]
How geomembranes help to improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment
November 8th, 2023
By Felon Wilson Part 1: Wastewater Industry in North America “We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness, we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.”– […]
Global Synthetics’ Bentofix GCL safeguards Australian bay
December 20th, 2017
Situated on the southern coastline of the Broome Peninsula in Western Australia, the southern wastewater facility of Water Corporation, which supplies water, wastewater and drainage services in Western Australia, has been under the spotlight in recent years following reports of contamination of the sensitive Yawuru Nagulagun/Roebuck Bay Marine Park. Outbreaks of blue-green algae in the […]