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As soon as the thermometer starts to rise, so do concerns about one of our most plentiful natural resources: water. Water can instill fear in the hearts of men when there isn’t enough of it, yet cause catastrophe when there’s too much. If your plant has concerns about water, rest assured that you can find several articles addressing water use and treatment concerns on ChemicalProcessing.com: • In “Optimize Water Use,” www. ChemicalProcessing.com/articles/2005/571.html) Tabatha Pellerin and John Woodhull of ENSR International tackle the major drivers that are causing an increased interest in optimizing water use. Higher operating costs, greater demand and regulatory concerns are pushing chemical processors to rethink the way they use water. This article offers strategies for optimizing your most important liquid asset. • “Better water technology is on tap,” (www.ChemicalProcessing. com/articles/2007/112.html) by C. Kenna Amos describes how chemical processing plants can minimize waste, improve their “recycle-andreuse technologies” and become more aware of the life-cycle costs of water-treatment operations. • The case study: “Wastewater treatment plant goes the distance,” (www.ChemicalProcessing.com/ articles/2005/466.html) by Bill Perpich, Jr., details a mobile reverse osmosis system from USFilter that effectively treated water at an abandoned fertilizer plant. Follow the case of The Piney Point fertilizer plant in Palmetto, Fla., which was shut down in 1999 after its parent company declared bankruptcy. According to the article, in 2001 the state of Florida “started managing the facility, 9 which had made phosphoric acid. A series of ponds at the site held 1.2 billion gal. of acidic, ammonia-laden process water. These ponds were in danger of overflowing, thereby spilling contaminated water into Tampa Bay.” • Furthering the cause of water protection, “Act before there’s not a drop to drink” (www.ChemicalProcessing.com/articles/2008/029. html) by Lynn Bergeson, our regulatory columnist (see p. 17), explains why groundwater protection is everyone’s responsibility, including the chemical industry’s. The Ground Water Protection Council, started as a nonprofit national association in 1983, aims at “protecting ground water and ensuring it’s viewed as an essential ecosystem component.” The group recently issued a report that looks at many facets of ground water use and availability. You can access that report through this online article. • Small advances can be big for water treatment, so says “Nanoparticles boost water treatment” (www. ChemicalProcessing.com/industrynews/2007/001.html). According to researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles, “Superhydrophilic nanoparticles dispersed in a conventional polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membrane allow dramatically better water permeability than possible with conventional membranes while maintaining comparable salt rejection.” According to the article, researchers are developing technology to synthesize the specialized nanoparticles and to integrate them in the RO film. This is just a sprinkle of what you can find on ChemicalProcessing.com. To be completely flooded with content, head online today. ERin ERickSon, Senior Digital Editor eerickson@putman.net Higher operating costs, greater demand and regulatory concerns are prompting rethinking of water use. 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