Rain Chains launched at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival
If you have never seen these decorative alternatives to the traditional house gutter systems please visit our website to view the entire range. Rain Chain gutter solutions come in a variety of attractive designs. They are a practical and decorative alternative to the dreary old fashioned gutter system.
We displayed our range of Rain Chains at this year’s Dogwood Festival in Atlanta and the display created quite a stir.
It’s spring and that means one thing for Atlanta, The Dogwood festival is here! Every year the Atlanta Dogwood Festival partners with the U.S. Green Building Council.
The U.S. Green Building Council is a non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings and an eco-friendly environment available to everyone within a generation.
Complete Water Services is thrilled to be joining the council this year at the annual Dogwood festival. CWS realizes that it has never been more important to work for environmental sustainability, and they are doing just that with their new rain water harvesting systems.
Harvesting rain is a practice that has been around for centuries. Cisterns and other rain harvesting systems are widely used in Europe, Africa, Australia, India, the Bahamas and countless remote countries – many who depend solely on rain for day to day life.
CWS believes that here in the USA, we too can successfully harvest rainwater to meet many of our needs.
Come see the Complete Water Services booth at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park on April, 16, 17 & 18!
Complete Water Services is going to be offering custom-designed systems that work with residential, commercial and industrial hot water heating applications. All solar water heating systems will be available in February.
Energy Star, SRCC and FSEC certified solar water heating solutions.
Water and wastewater treatability studies range from relatively simple field tests to complex bio assays.
Treatability studies can be used by experienced professionals to determine treatment for non-conventional contaminants such as molybdenum and complex mercury. This is true for water and wastewater from both industrial and municipal sources.
If you have a body of water or wastewater that has a very difficult or non-conventional contaminant, it is recommended that an experienced specialist assist with performing these treatability studies.
CWS and our team of professionals have completed many studies, such as:
CWS has assisted numerous clients for many years with less complex studies generally associated with day-to-day treatment plant operations.
Water is used in large heating and cooling applications such as industrial manufacturing, large buildings and offices, schools, and hospitals because of its great capacity for storing and transferring heat energy.
Unfortunately, water can corrode piping and heat transfer equipment due to a variety of corrosive conditions. These corrosive conditions include deposits that form in the system which almost always develop into pits or blisters under deposit attack. Microbiological corrosions from bacteria can cause contamination and high dissolved solids or oxygen to attach at elevated temperatures.
According to the Wilkes University center for environmental quality and earth sciences, the cost of corrosion can be expensive. Corrosion can impact health, quality of water, waste money, and damage to piping and fixtures.
Corrosive water can be costly in a number of ways; it decreases the efficiency of hot water heaters and may cause premature failure to the heater. It corrodes and causes premature failure of plumbing and plumbing fixtures; imparting a bitter taste to water. Drinking corrosive water has also been shown to cause both acute and chronic health problems.
Services include: corrosion failure investigation, chemical treatment programs and equipment to minimize corrosion, corrosion monitoring systems, and expert advice on how to select proper materials of construction to protect valuable components from corrosion damage.
Training for the industrial treatment plant operator is more challenging than ever. As regulations tighten and technology advances, the ability to train and keep competent treatment plant operators is a major concern in an industrial facility. In addition, many states are now requiring that the industrial operator be licensed or certified. These conditions have created a very competitive environment for well trained and competent industrial treatment operators.
Our staff at Complete Water Services has been involved in treatment plant operator training for many years. Our principals hold certification in all classes of certification, including industrial wastewater, municipal wastewater, water, and collection systems. One of our principals also sits on the Industrial Waste Validation and Examination Committee of the Association of Boards of Certification. This committee’s primary responsibility is to review and create questions for industrial operator certification exams that are used throughout the United States and Canada.
CWS provides pro bono industrial operator training for metals finishing treatment at the Georgia Water and Wastewater Institute. The GWWI is the premier water and wastewater operator training institute in the United States. A copy of the power point presentation used for training by CWS can be viewed by clicking Metals Finishing Treatment Class.
CWS can provide hands-on industrial operator training for all types of treatment facilities including physical-chemical, biological, and advanced treatment processes.
With the decreasing availability of freshwater, increasing cost of potable water,and drought conditions that exist in many parts of the country and world, the emphasison water recycling and reuse has significantly increased.
One of the main reasons for water reuse programs is to identify new water sources for the increased water demand and to find economical ways to meet increasingly more stringent discharge standards. Water reuse is a drought-proof,renewable supply of water. With freshwater being a scarce resource, it’s inevitable that
this process will become vital.
According to the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) at Texas A&M University, the processes used to recover natural gas are very dependent on water resources. Not only do we need water to survive, many of our other non-renewable
resources are dependent on our supply of water.
According to the JStor Journal, a not-for-profit organization, most of the U. S. population today uses raw water supplies containing water which has been used
previously for industrial or municipal purposes. Recycling water is a more recent concept.
Water recycling and reuse is a much more feasible option and costs are for the
treatments are related to the degree of treatment. Through federal grants research on system
renovation techniques are underway.
Many companies are establishing water reuse programs to reduce costs and to
lower their overall water footprint as part of sustainability policies. Industries are
implementing programs to become substantially greener. Often, these programs are
based on an effective water strategy.
CWS can assist industries in these admirable goals. Reducing their water
footprint can propel a company a long way toward sustainability. Facility water balances,
evaluating processes to reduce water use, looking at water sources within the facility for
other purposes, and additional water treatment for improved water quality for specific
water needs are all ways that CWS can help your company make a difference.
The majority of natural waters are not suitable for potable uses. Most municipalities or other entities provide some level of treatment prior to distribution to make the water suitable for consumptive purposes. Often this potable water is not of a quality required for many industrial and most research applications. Additional treatment is required for the water to meet certain quality criteria. Many industries and organizations have established water quality specifications.
Water treatment is vital to our survival considering the earth’s freshwater composition is only a small percentage.
Water is broken down by the following percentages:
“Water is more critical than energy. We have alternative sources of energy. But with water there is no other choice.”- Eugene Odom/ Dr. of Ecology
Do you think people should worry about the scarcity of freshwater?
It has been predicted that water will be the defining crisis for mankind in the 21st century due to the increased demands of population growth, agricultural demand, industrial production and shrinking availability of fresh water.
Many major rivers such as the Nile and Rio Grande ——- do not flow all of the way to the ocean at certain parts of the year because every bit of it is consumed or evaporated. Underground aquifers are being pumped at rates faster than they can recharge. Wells where once a farmer required only a bucket and rope now require large pumps to raise the water hundreds of feet.
The oceans are also experiencing increased pollution at an alarming rate. Jacques Cousteau once called them the “ultimate sewer.” Sanitary wastes from some countries flow untreated or only partially treated into the ocean.———
There has also been an increase in the development of dead zones in hundreds of the world’s coastal regions. These dead zones occur mostly in the spring when rainfall carries runoff from farms within the watershed that is laden with fertilizers containing high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous. Although some of the fertilizer is taken up by plants, most of it accumulates in the soil before it is washed to the coast and eventually to the deep ocean. It has been estimated that only 10 to 15% of nitrogen created for food production actually ends up as food. The rest of the nitrogen goes into the environment. This increase in nitrogen spurs a brief frenzy of algae growth that depletes the water of oxygen. Species such as fish, clams, shrimp and other life forms can be wiped out. These dead zones usually appear at the mouths of rivers and can grow up to 31,000 square miles. In 2008, an international team of researches reported that oxygen levels in some seas had dropped up to 15% since 1960.
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