Municipal Water Leader Magazine

09/20/2025

09/18/2025

Check out our article on Martin Gross and Gross-Wen Technologies gaining industry recognition from our September issue.

Why is Iowa-based Gross-Wen Technologies (GWT) gathering awards as quickly as baby pigs at the Iowa State Fair? Because its innovative approach to wastewater treatment, recognized by Forbes, Engineering News-Record, and EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Heartland award, is disrupting an industry that has basically treated water the same way for hundreds of years. In this interview, CEO Martin Gross talks about the benefits of the company’s algae- based treatment, which removes nitrogen and phosphorus while reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

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09/16/2025

Check out our article on changing the narrative on wastewater: how Gross-Wen Technologies is using the nutrients in wastewater to benefit farmers from our September issue.

In 2014, Dr. Martin Gross and Dr. Zhiyou Wen developed a groundbreaking technology—the Revolving Algal Biofilm (RAB) system—to help municipal and industrial clients effectively treat wastewater in more economical and reliable ways. In this interview, Max Gangestad, the chief operating officer of the company they created, Gross‑Wen Technologies (GWT), shares how the RAB system is helping the City of Pasco, Washington, take a new approach to wastewater. Rather than simply treating wastewater and dumping it, the city now sees it as a nutrient-rich resource that can be reused as fertilizer for local farmers.

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09/12/2025

Check out our article on Meena Sankaran of KETOS preaching the gospel of intelligent water from our September issue.

KETOS is transforming manual water quality testing with autonomous sensor-based hardware through robotics and AI-driven data-management technology. The company’s solutions can detect more than 35 water constituents; monitor pressure and flow; detect leaks; and provide automated reporting, alerts, and predictive analytics. In this interview with Municipal Water Leader, Founder and CEO Meena Sankaran introduces the new KETOS Environmental Lab Platform (KELP), which integrates customers’ lab results that KETOS can manually test for a broader range of contaminants along with their other high- frequency remote monitoring data to provide comprehensive and valuable forecasting and insights.

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09/10/2025

Check out our article on the Upper Occoquan Service Authority: a pioneer of indirect potable reuse serves a growing area from our September issue.

Since the 1970s, the Upper Occoquan Service Authority (UOSA) has been serving rapidly growing Northern Virginia by pioneering indirect potable reuse for wastewater treatment. In this interview, Executive Director Brian Steglitz tells Municipal Water Leader about UOSA’s history in the water reuse space, the challenges of serving a growing and changing populace, and the agency’s future plans to continue improving sustainability and customer outreach.

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09/08/2025

Check out our article on how the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is protecting public health by cleaning up the San Fernando Basin from our September issue.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is working toward the long-term goal of transitioning the City of Los Angeles from its dependence on purchased water to the use of sustainable local water sources. Chief among these is the San Fernando basin, which supplies, on average, 80 percent of the department’s groundwater. In this interview, Todd Rother and Louis Rubalcaba, waterworks engineers from LADWP, discuss how three remediation projects—the Tujunga Well Field, North Hollywood Central, and North Hollywood West—aim to remove contaminants from the basin, ensuring sustainable water supply and protecting public health and the environment.

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09/04/2025

Check out our article on Maribel Medina of Tampa Bay Water: planning ahead to meet growing demands from our September issue.

Tampa Bay Water is a wholesale drinking water supplier for three cities and three counties across 2,000 square miles in the growing metro area around Tampa Bay, Florida. Its coastal location allows the utility to draw on seawater desalination in addition to surface and groundwater, but it also renders it vulnerable to the effects of hurricanes. In this interview with Maribel Medina, the director of the planning and projects division, we learn about the agency’s current improvement work on its surface water treatment facility; its strategy for dealing with hurrricanes; and its future plans for expansion, including its capital improvement program, which allows the agency to identify and prioritize projects that will best serve the demands of a growing region.

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