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For eight weeks in the summer of 2024, Louisville Water Company treated a massive algal superbloom that had the potential for an exceedingly bad taste and odor for nearly one million people. The size of the initial bloom alone would have been a water treatment challenge, but to compound the problem, a prolonged drought and lack of rainfall along the Ohio River – Louisville Water’s source – had made the river and its tributaries especially sluggish, which resulted in a sustained algal bloom that would linger for week
GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON (GAC) is one of the most effective materials for removing contaminants from drinking water. From large municipal and industrial installations to home point-of-use pitcher filters, GAC adsorbs a wide range of impurities and pollutants. It’s also effective at removing per- and polyfluo- roalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water…
Tariffs on imported activated carbon have arrived in the water treatment industry, with effects that are just beginning to ripple through the market. Roughly 25 to 30% of the activated carbon used in the U.S. is imported, with about a third of that imported volume coming from Sri Lanka and India, which are subject to tariffs of 20% and 50%, respectively.