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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"wastewater utilities"”.
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Binding civil and civic infrastructure : the need for transparency and accountability in Baltimore's water crisis
… for essential infrastructure upgrades, water and wastewater utilities have increasingly relied on customer revenue to fill funding gaps. This has led most recently to "water crises" in cities such as Baltimore and Detroit, where residents who cannot afford to pay increasing rates have been …
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Analysis of a uniform, comprehensive cost analysis method for Virginia municipal water and wastewater systems
Municipal water and wastewater systems in Virginia are faced with substantial capital needs for the expansion, replacement, and improvement of existing facilities, and the construction of new facilities. To compound this problem, the financial environment surrounding these utilities is changing …
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A Framework for Standardized Monitoring of Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Environments and Application to Wastewater, Recycled Water, Surface Water, and Private Wells
… laboratories on a set of six water matrices: wastewater, recycled water, and surface water from six different wastewater utilities engaging in water reuse located in five states across the USA. The impact of wastewater treatment and advanced water treatment processes was examined in terms of …
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Developing a Framework for Selecting Condition Assessment Technologies for Water and Wastewater Pipes
… provides users with potable water and carry away wastewater. These buried infrastructure systems have been functioning for duration longer than their intended design life, often with little or no repair. Asset management of pipeline systems pose a major challenge for most municipalities due to …
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The blue city: Urban metabolism and the energy-water nexus
… of direct water volume (drinking water and wastewater) and its embedded energy data were discussed. The lack of existing data prompted the use of open records requests to build a database of urban water and energy data for cities across the United States. The collected data were then …
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Anaerobic / Aerobic Digestion for Enhanced Solids and Nitrogen Removal
Anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge has widely been in application for stabilization of sludge. With the increase in hauling cost and many environmental and health concerns regarding land application of biosolids, digestion processes generating minimized sludge with better effluent …
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Occurrence of cyclo-siloxanes in wastewater treatment plants - quantification and monitoring
… and toxic emerging contaminants introduced to wastewater from common healthcare and biomedical products, and various industrial processes. They remain unchanged through wastewater treatment and a considerable portion ends up in surface waters through effluent discharge. 30 to 60 ng/L …