Safety upgrades imposed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) several years ago required nuclear power plants across the United States to review operations and enhance safety protocols. As a part of this process, a nuclear power plant located in the northeast of the U.S. sought an emergency back-up solution to inject cooling water into the plant reactor in the event that all other means of cooling failed.

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. faced a two-pronged water challenge at one of its many underground mines. At the South Mine of the company’s Gibson County Coal in Indiana, solid-laden water needed to be pumped out of the mine, and a dewatering system needed to be installed in an area with limited space. Multiple pumps had to fit into a mine void less than eight feet high with a narrow, 20-foot entry span.

Delta Sand & Gravel Co., located in Eugene, Oregon, has been providing quality aggregate materials, service and expertise for almost nine decades. The company offers a full line of aggregate products for year-round, all-weather construction and demolition landfill. Xylem has partnered with Delta Sand & Gravel since 2013, to provide holistic water management solutions.

One of the largest U.S. producers of construction aggregates decided to relocate their processing plant to facilitate increased production capacity. However, the new location was further away from the plant’s water supply.

One customer, operating a hard rock nickel mine in Ontario, needed an efficient and reliable solution to transport its mine slime from an underground sump back to the surface while ensuring continuity in production and minimizing downtime.

A customer in Perú needed to drain water as its large open-pit mine operation reached as deep as 1,200 ft (365 m) below the surface. The discovery of more copper in the mine, and an expected excess of water during rainy summer months also prompted the company to act. They sought a remote solution for monitoring and controlling their pumping system, particularly as routing electrical power became more difficult the deeper they dug....

The Municipality of Ede comprises ten residential nuclei located in one of the most beautiful, wooded parts of the Netherlands. A total of more than two thousand pumping stations have to be managed and maintained there, for which a maintenance management program is used.

Cyclical water shortages are a challenge that Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) takes seriously. As California’s sixth-largest retail water agency, they embrace the opportunity to balance water use efficiency with meeting the needs of a diverse and growing customer base.

One of the largest global energy exploration companies faced the challenge of drawing source water among the steep slopes of Northern Pennsylvania. The water had to be drawn from a 30-feet deep wet well beside a creek and then pumped 300-feet vertically out of a ravine into the impoundment pond.

According to Deloitte LLP., large U.S. producers with significant shale oil and gas operations reported operating margins averaging around 20 percent in 2012, a significant drop from 2006 operating margins of 45 percent.

New DERs are often installed in more remote, decentralized areas of the grid where visibility beyond the substation is strained. Costs to extend hard lines into these far-reaching areas quickly becomes expensive for both utilities and their customers.

North Carolina has a proud history of innovation and advancement dating back to the Wright brothers and their historic first flight near Kitty Hawk in 1903. This culture of innovation also lives in the electric cooperatives that deliver power to North Carolina’s rural communities. Electric cooperative EnergyUnited, for example, continues to find new opportunities for innovation...

In the municipality of Vlaardingen, rainwater and wastewater are processed by more than seventy pumping stations, six of which are large, dry-installed main pumping stations and a large number of subsidiary and mini-pumping stations. Supervision is the responsibility of Xylem, which means that the Vlaardingen maintenance department receives a weekly overview of all relevant events.

When the City of Dallas, Georgia, launched an initiative to get a handle on water loss, they couldn’t know how far the journey would take them. Solid results from an initial smart metering upgrade led to the realization that they had just scratched the surface of what was possible.

Xylem carries out the maintenance of wastewater pumping stations on a contract basis for a large number of municipalities in the Netherlands. With the maintenance contracts in place, Xylem is in regular contact with the associated technical people to share new solutions and insights.

There are over 150,000 public drinking water systems in the United States and more than 80 percent of the population receives their potable drinking water from these systems.

Fortum’s core business in Poland is high-efficiency combined heat and power production and heat distribution. The company aims to develop sustainable solutions for cleaner cities, meeting the needs of local communities.

Whether it is a borehole application requiring outdoor enclosure or surface mount pump and motor requiring a drive to withstand corrosive environment, the IPC has the right solution. Each drive enclosure is constructed to provide a different degree of protection to personnel against access to hazardous parts.

As well as delivering consistently clog-free pumping, Flygt Concertor, dramatically reduced energy consumption by 53% at the pumping station.

Communities around the world are facing a growing storm. Complex challenges including water scarcity, changing demographics, extreme weather patterns, and aging or overly stressed infrastructure are colliding to threaten critical water, energy, transport, enterprise and health networks. The water industry is in the eye of the storm.

It began as a small nursery providing shade trees and potted nursery products to local customers. Today, Acorn Farms Nursery, Galena, OH is one of the nation’s largest wholesale producers of shade trees and nursery stock, with 800 acres of field stock and another 160 acres of container stock, all located in greenhouses and holding areas that take on the appearance of dense woodlands, where thousands of saplings await delivery to local nurseries.

Chris Hock, owner of North Valley Pump Service, Cave Creek, AZ is a professional residential water systems installer. Chris was approached by a local homebuilder inquiring into the possibility of tapping the municipal water supply contained in a storage tank outside the town of Rio Verde.