For decades, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, didn’t disinfect its wastewater. It stopped disinfecting in the 1980s because of concerns that residual chlorine would harm aquatic life and because of the ...

On Feb. 2, the 55-ton railroad tank car containing Western Lake Superior Sanitary District's chlorine supply was permanently removed from the wastewater treatment plant site. WLSSD has kept liquefied ...

For nearly a century, improvement in human healthcare has depended heavily on the efficiency with which we can treat bacterial diseases. But today, antibiotic resistance--the ability of certain mutant ...

Each year at least 2 million Americans are infected with bacteria that cannot be treated with antibiotics, and at least 23,000 of these people die, according to the Centers for Disease Control. These ...

The city of Superior is looking to eliminate nearly 11 tons of chlorine from its wastewater treatment process. The council approved a proposal Tuesday by Strand Associates to provide preliminary ...

Late last year, the Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) called attention to an important topic with the release of Technical Note 67: Chlorine Dioxide and Plastic Hot- and Cold-Water Plumbing Distribution ...

Pennsylvania American Water has started an ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection system upgrade at its Royersford Wastewater Treatment Plant in Montgomery County. Work on the $2.75 million project ...