The Mix

The EPA recently announced a new strategy to provide clean, safe drinking water and a novel means by which those of us in the water industry, and citizens in general, can comment on it: an on-line discussion forum.

Because mixing in water storage tanks is a new concept, many people don’t realize that there are actually two different types of mixing: active mixing and passive mixing. Most state regulators don’t appreciate the difference either.

Last week, PAX Water Technologies partnered with Utility Service Company to offer a pre-conference workshop on tank maintenance and water quality at the Kansas Rural Water Association show, the largest rural water association conference in the country. The six hour workshop titled, Operation and Maintenance of Water Storage Tanks, included a variety of topics related to water tanks such as safety, sanitary, structural, coatings and security concerns.

Welcome to the PAX Water Technologies' Web Log! Four years ago, we entered the water industry with a new approach to product development: biomimicry. Biomimicry is the process of studying natural systems and adapting Nature's best designs to solve engineering challenges. We saw a great fit with the water industry: Nature has been transporting, treating and distributing water since the formation of the planet. And over all those millions of years Nature has developed some ingenious ways of improving process efficiency and saving energy.