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Dealing with challenges of any kind often requires thinking outside the box. Such an approach can be very useful when trying to figure out ways to tackle the global issue of energy resources and sustainability.

For more than 20 years, J.W. Treuth & Sons Inc., a kosher slaughterhouse based in Baltimore County, Md., has used a Model 5H oil skimmer from Oil Skimmers, Inc. to remove fats, oils and greases (FOG) from kill-floor wastewater.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has slapped a $9,600 fine on Norpac Foods, Inc. for breaching wastewater discharging requirements at its food processing facility in Stayton.

Despite having a state-of-the-art and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment plant, Petaluma city, Calif., is already unable to meet the increasing demand from the city's booming food processing industry.

Cape Cod may soon receive a $3.35 million grant from the state to help implement a regional wastewater plan.

Approximately 95 million gallons of untreated wastewater and stormwater was released last weekend into local creeks and the Ohio River after the mechanical screening system at the Derek R. Guthrie Water Quality Treatment Center in Louisville, Ky., malfunctioned.

The wastewater aeration systems market is likely to see dramatic growth of up to 72 percent by 2020 and is estimated to reach a total global value of $8.39 billion.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa — An Iowa-based company is working on an ambitious task but it is one that might lead to a huge step forward in sustainability.

VOORHEES, N.J. — American Water Works Company, Inc., one of the biggest U.S. water and wastewater utilities, has been awarded the Technology Project of the Year award for its

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A team led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health has found that the “superbug” methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is prevalent