Today, is the 5th annual Imagine a Day Without Water – luckily something most of us don’t have to worry about; however, that’s not the case in a lot of the developing world. It’s an uncomfortable and very concerning fact that 663 million people...
Nearly 700 million people on our planet lack access to safe drinking water. Every 21 seconds, a child dies of water-related disease. In the U.S. and other developed countries, we take our drinking water for granted. We turn on the tap and out comes treated, clean, and...
It’s 1979 and Robert Allred is armed with water treatment chemicals, selling them out of his pea green 1970 Chevy station wagon. Later that year, ATS was born. Allred’s desire was to provide a level of service the client needed and deserved, as well as the freedom to...
Advancements in water treatment have evolved in the last number of years, ensuring clean and safe drinking water for communities. To allow for this, the EPA has set legal limits on many contaminants for the safety of human health. In fact, the Safe Drinking Water Act...
We see it all the time. With the onset of summer, calls come into water treatment plants or city offices, complaining about the green gunk and awful smell in lakes, rivers, and lagoons. Not only is it an eye-sore (who wants to go swimming in that or taste it in your...
Phosphorus removal has been and continues to be a big challenge, more now than ever before. You may wonder what’s the big deal? Since you can find phosphorus in nearly every fertilizer manufactured commercially, it affects our watershed. After crops are fertilized,...