The city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, employed different technologies to increase both the quality and efficiency of the West Side wastewater treatment plant.

Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Sydney, successfully tests a new filter media for the production of high quality water without any detrimental effects.

ITC Paper Mills utilises UF for the removal of silica in the boiler feed water reducing the boiler blowdowns which consume heavy volumes of water and heat energy.

In the US Midwest Municipality, wastewater is being treated and recycled to save enough potable water to supply 7,000 homes and to manufacture biofuel to run cars.

The construction of three plants in Africa and China, including Africa's largest seawater desalination plant in Algeria, have been the latest ventures of GE Water and Process Technology. Technologies like SWRO, EDR and UF are used in these projects for the treatment of seawater and brackish water.

The Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran provided adequate water supply during adverse conditions in the business capital of India, Mumbai. They designed a water distribution system to meet the deficit that arose as a result of the failure of waterworks under disaster.

As the water purveyor of Singapore, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), aims at ensuring efficient, adequate and sustainable supply of water. In an interview with Everything About Water Khoo Teng Chye, Chief Executive, PUB, talks about the initiatives taken by the board and how their efforts have been successful.

This article traces how Singapore-with no natural aquifers or groundwater-goes from having inadequate supplies to winning awards for exemplary water management.

With the use of hydrogen peroxide at the Dos Rios WRC, the San Antonio Water System solved its problems of consolidating and centralising sludge dewatering activities for their water recycling centres.

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