As featured in Waterline Summer 2022 The Authorising Engineer (Water):Questions Which Shape Our Future Needs David Harper, Harper Water Management Group Ltd. www.harperwater.com Drinking water storage and distribution systems have been challenging our health and wellbeing for centuries and the stellar rise of opportunistic waterborne pathogens from this niche man-made environment has been noted since… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Summer 2022 An Overview of Some Water Treatment Processes, Phosphonates, and Polymers for the Oil & Gas Industry, in an Era of Water Recovery and Recycling Colin Frayne, CSci, CChem, CEnv, CWEM, FRSC, FICorr, MCIWEM, FWMSoc, LRIC, CWT. Consultant, Aquassurance, Inc.Barry B. Ekstrand, P.E., President & COO, Finoric LLCJune 2022 Abstract… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Spring 2022 Using Harvested Rainwater:Should We, or Shouldn’t We? Giles Green FWM Soc., Associate Technical Director at Zeta Compliance Services, former chairman of the WMSocTechnical Committee and co-author of the WMSoc technical guide on safe management of harvested rainwatershares some thoughts on the subject. Hardly a day goes by without there… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Winter 2021-22 Challenges of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Joseph O. Falkinham, III Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology   Introduction to the Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) The nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are members of the Mycobacterium bacterial genus that now includes over 200 distinct species (Tortoli, 2003). The NTM are distinguished from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis group… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Autumn 2021 Field Analysis Tips Jemma Tennant, City of Edinburgh Council On site field testing is a key part of every successful water treatment programme. Not only does it satisfy legal requirements, but it is an easy way to quickly gain information on system performance. This can result in improved efficiency… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Summer 2021 Implementing a Sustainable Solution for Cooling Tower Treatment in the Food Industry Mike Hunter – AP Tech Group, Inc. AbstractIndustrial facilities are continuously looking for ways to improve employee safety and to reduce environmental impact from their operations. Facilities that have multiple cooling systems distributed around a large site… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Spring 2021 Global Warming and Climate Change This is the first of 2 articles that I have written for this edition of Waterline. This article looks at how human activity has thrown the Earth’s climate into chaos, and the part that water plays. The second article looks at what we must… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Spring 2021 Going Off-Grid – The Decentralised Production of Point-of-Use Drinking Water by Gillian E Clayton2, Tapan K Dutta1, Bethany G Fox2, Robin M S Thorn2 and Darren M Reynolds2 1 Department of Microbiology, Centenary Campus, Bose Institute, Kolkata 2 Centre for Research in Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences,… Read more »

As featured in waterline Winter 2020-21 FINER AND FINEST – FILTRATION FOR SWIMMING WATER by Michael Cormacey, MISPE, SAC, Dip(Eco-Bldg.Design) MWM.Soc., M.D. Aqua Blue Designs Water filtration, whether in balneology or in the field of effluent and waste water treatment, relies on the same basic principles. Filtration in both swimming pools and sewage plants can… Read more »