NORMAN — For more than a decade, Norman city leaders have been debating wastewater treatment plants. Those treatment plants are essential to treating Norman’s growing wastewater needs.

Waukesha needs innovative thinking
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It introduced reclaimed wastewater purified using ultra-advanced treatment technologies in addition to conventional treatment processes to fuel its industrial water needs. And it added desalination capabilities to take advantage of its access to ...

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Earthships: Off-grid, zero-emission, recycled-content homes
Mother Nature Network
This kind of home also processes all of its wastewater locally, and can even grow a quantity of its occupant's food. Additionally the home is built with local and recycled waste products, and it can be built with basic low-tech labor.

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No increase in water and wastewater rates
Peoria Times
The combined 3.2 percent adjustment to water and wastewater rates is offset by a 13-percent reduction to residential solid waste. In its fiscal analysis, city staff said the proposed water, wastewater and reclaimed rate adjustments provide the “minimum ...

Plans for Pismo Beach annexation tread water
San Luis Obispo Tribune
The property owners are hoping to secure state water and plan to upgrade Pismo Beach's wastewater treatment plant to create a recycled water program. The reclaimed water, which would be used for irrigation purposes, is expected to be available in 2015, ...

An introduction to Earthships
Fox News
This kind of home also processes all of its wastewater locally, and can even grow a quantity of its occupant's food. Additionally the home is built with local and recycled waste products, and it can be built with basic low-tech labor.

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A water reclamation project now in operation will save College Station 25 million gallons of drinking water a year — enough to bury Kyle Field under 57 feet of water, city water officials said. The $3.3 million project will treat and pump was ...

VICTORVILLE The city's wastewater woes continue, with faulty equipment at the city-run plant triggering another $115,000 in expenses that Victorville didn't budget for. The city plans to tack those extra costs onto a complaint that is pending against Lakeside Equipment Corp., the...

Reclaimed water gives new life to Camp Weed
Branford News
When most think of reclaimed water, there is usually a negative stigma associated with it. City officials are hoping that stigma won't stick. Reclaimed water involves taking what was once considered to be wastewater and treating it biologically and ...

Masdar Institute offers research on biological wastewater treatment processes ...
WAM - Emirates News Agency
ABU DHABI: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, today announced biological wastewater treatment processes will be one of the ...

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South Florida cuts water use by 20 percent
MiamiHerald.com
At Hillcrest Golf & Country Club in Hollywood, the fairways and greens are irrigated with 'reclaimed' waste water. By CURTIS MORGAN South Florida has suffered through some dreary declines of late — home values, paychecks and the Miami Dolphins, ...

CS Reclaimed Water Facility Ready to Open
WTAW
Protecting the investment in College Station's city ballfields and preserving the city's water supply are two reasons behind a new reclaimed water facility. Water Resources Coordinator Jennifer Nations says the $3.3 million dollar operation will ...

Integrated Regional Water Management Public Workshop
Santa Barbara Independent
The existing plan has facilitated the award of over $28 million dollars to the Region to either wholly or partially fund 21 water supply, water conservation, reclaimed water, wastewater treatment, flood control, and ecosystem restoration projects.

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Candidates split on Sno Park in Flagstaff
Arizona Daily Sun
But the Flagstaff Sno Park's plan to use the city's reclaimed wastewater -- treated to an even higher level -- to make snow has raised concerns for two candidates. "Using increasingly scarce city water for snowplay will not make sense in the long run," ...

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Green light for sledding facility
Arizona Daily Sun
It will include 500 parking spaces, dedicated but separate sledding runs for adults and children, a "magic carpet" rope pull up the hill, a treatment system for making artificial snow with reclaimed wastewater, and lighting. The proposed lighting and ...

'Legal nightmare' sees Snowbowl sue for attorney fees
Arizona Daily Sun
Howard Shanker represented the Navajo Nation, Save the Peaks Coalition and individuals opposed to snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater at Arizona Snowbowl. "The Court has already found that Mr. Shanker acted in bad faith in bringing this appeal.

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UC Merced innovations all seen as a big win
Sacramento Bee
... to reduce noise in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, while third place went to a team that would use reclaimed water for irrigation and landscaping from the city's wastewater treatment plant.

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Masdar Institute offers research on biological wastewater treatment processes ...
AME Info
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, announced biological wastewater treatment processes will be one of the project options ...

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The Greenville City Council Tuesday awarded a bid for an administration building at the new wastewater treatment plant.

Snowbowl owners seek $270K over suit
Arizona Daily Sun
The coalition sought to stop the Arizona Snowbowl's plan to use reclaimed wastewater to make artificial snow. They claimed the Forest Service didn't adequately consider the health impacts of using treated wastewater on the peaks near Flagstaff.
Snowbowl owners file suit seeking $270000Phoenix Business Journal (blog)

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