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....

For 34 years, Steve and Lana Gleason made due without a traditional residential water system. The couple, who live in the rural logging community of Jewell, Oregon, pumped water for washing from a nearby river and made 40-mile round trips from their home to haul drinking water from a spring.

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.

Operators of one of the largest coal fired power plants in the US based in Michigan, were looking for an efficient, robust and reliable pumping solution to move sludge water from each of the plant’s four sumps.

Soon after starting this biological treatment method, the membrane disc diffusers were found to be clogged with scale particles. However, this problem was satisfactorily solved by the Xylem’s mobile cleaning service: the Diffuser Liquid Cleaning Service.

Evansville is located on the north bank of the Ohio River in southwest Indiana. The City’s sewer system, parts of which are more than 100 years old, serves a population of 163,000, with combined sewers making up almost 40 percent of the total sewer area.

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.

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.

Xylem Rental Solutions helped a North Carolina community restore water service quickly during the COVID-19 outbreak with a temporary replacement, using a Flygt submersible pump, after a permanent pump failed.

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.

Surveys were conducted at three mining pits in January 2018 using the Xylem UK rQPOD radio controlled vessel and the SonTek HydroSurveyor-M9 system over two days. Speed of sound in water cor- rections, an integral part of any acoustic survey, were carried out using the SonTek CastAway-CTD. HYPACK software managed the prepara- tion, survey, processing and outputs for the survey.

This pioneering pump turns feedstock like cheap sugar into clean-burning ethanol fuel that emits far less greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than oil-based gasoline. It’s designed to be installed in household driveways and the parking lots of small businesses.

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.

High-quality drinking water often alludes residents in these remote areas, where hooking into the municipal water supply can be difficult and cost-prohibitive. With the help of the Water Supply Costs Savings Act signed into law in 2016, nonprofit efforts like Xylem Watermark and Hometown H2O are increasing the use of cost-effective alternatives such as water well systems.

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.

In search for the best wastewater treatment process in terms of removal of microbiological contaminants and the abatement of bromate discharge, RWTH Aachen University, along with the other environmental institutions, launched a research project and partnered with Xylem to test the effects of wastewater ozonation on water quality and its ecosystem.

Flygt Concertor was trialed at Heathrow Airport to solve chronic clogging and delivered clog-free pumping while cutting energy use by 53%.