As buildings, such as schools reopen, we will see an increase in the incidence of Legionella pneumophila SG 1, the organism responsible for legionnaires disease. Birmingham public schools has found this to be far real. Once established legionella is difficult to eliminate often taking several remediation cycles to eliminate. Birmingham public schools is finding out just how difficult legionella … [Read more...]
Water Consumption
Over 84% of California is currently experiencing a D1 to D4 drought level. These droughts can have big impacts on water costs as water becomes increasingly more difficult to supply to all end users. SWS can help you drastically reduce your water consumption across various applications from cooling towers to customized water reuse projects. Feel free to message or call me anytime to see what SWS … [Read more...]
Preventative Maintenance and Repairs on Water Using Equipment
In todays over tasked / under staffed world, things like preventative maintenance ( PM’s) and repairs on water using equipment such as Cooling Condensers, Distribution Pumps, Boilers, Reverse Osmosis, Closed loops can easily slip to the wayside. Failure to perform PM’s can lead to devastating corrosion, bacterial issues and drastically shorten equipment life. No one wants this. Consider … [Read more...]
Importance of Tower Cleaning
The service you didn’t know you needed, and no one wants to perform, is cooling tower cleaning. The dangerous and costly consequences of not cleaning your cooling tower will take you by surprise. Studies have shown that the cooling tower's efficiency can be reduced by as much as 40% – 50% as if not properly maintained, the bacteria, airborne dirt, and debris deposits collect and affix to … [Read more...]
Potential Legionella Outbreak
With schools and other covid affected buildings opening again the total threat is not just covid-19 but also major legionella outbreaks. While these buildings have been absent, the traditional maintenance and preventative measures normally preformed may not taking place. If for example, the school water system has become stagnate, conditions can become ripe for a potentially harmful case of … [Read more...]
SWS Nereus
Cooling towers are typically run around 3 cycles of concentration. The SWS Nereus control package is capable of running most cooling towers at 10 cycles of concentration. The benefits of properly running a cooling tower at 10 cycles of concentration are as follows (assume 750 ton tower). 1.8 Million gallons of water saved per year $15,000 saved per year on city water and sewer costs $11,000 … [Read more...]
Water and Energy Efficiency Challenge
Sustainable Water Solutions LLC recognizes companies for their outstanding progress in eliminating Water and Energy Waste daily operations. Here are the award levels and how the criteria we used. Award Levels Bronze Award System has been reviewed Water testing completed Opportunities identified Rebates identified Payback is understood Silver Award Completion of Bronze award … [Read more...]
SAP Selects Sustainable Water Solutions LLC
SWS announces that datacenter Lear SAP has selected SWS various Cooling water system for implementation in Dublin CA Data Center. Early indications are that Nereus will save in excess of 3 million gallons a year of water for SAP while delving significant operational cost savings. If you want information about Nereus please contact us today! Nereus Water Treatment Systems Save customers … [Read more...]
California’s 100-year drought
California is in the third year of one of the state's worst droughts in the past century, one that's led to fierce wildfires, water shortages and restrictions, and potentially staggering agricultural losses. The dryness in California is only part of a longer-term, 15-year drought across most of the Western USA, one that bioclimatologist Park Williams said is notable because "more area in the … [Read more...]
Sustainable Water Solutions LLC Announces Nereus for Cooling.
In response to the severe drought conditions in the southwest, SWS LLC announces the release of the Nereus Cooling Platform. Nereus is a full suite of state of the art monitoring and traditional chemical treatments that, when deployed, save cooling tower operations millions of gallons and thousands of dollars per year while reducing manpower and increasing worker safety. Recently SAP (the … [Read more...]