Waterworks

About Waterworks: Who We Are

Waterworks has had the opportunity to complete multiple projects worldwide since 1985 for Fortune 500 companies and other regional companies/contractors. The skills and abilities of the Waterworks team have been demonstrated on a wide range of projects.

As a global company, Waterworks has successfully completed hundreds of projects in various countries & regions around the world including Canada, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Mexico, Nigeria, India, Malaysia and many more. Waterworks has supplied systems to a wide range of clients which have in turn lead to multiple opportunities working with international giants such as US Army Corps of Engineers, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi America, Coca Cola, ATCO, GE Energy, Kellogg Brown & Root, Amec, ARAMCO and many other prominent companies. Waterworks maintains a core staff of dedicated engineering professionals offering a wide range of pre-engineered and custom design solutions, while continuing to invest in the research and development of new processes, adaptations or improvements of existing processes.

Water & Wastewater treatment & utility specialists

Waterworks is a leading environmental engineering company based in Calgary, Canada. Waterworks was incorporated in 1985 and has maintained an ever expanding global presence with subsidiary offices in Dubai, Cyprus, Malaysia, India, Egypt, USA, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Waterworks specializes in custom designed systems that combine several technologies to provide solutions for any water or wastewater treatment needed, such as:
  • Recycle and reuse
  • Oil and water systems
  • Biological treatment
  • RO-UF water units
  • Camp water and sewage treatment
  • Produced water treatment
  • Refinery: petro-chemical and industrial plant wastewater treatment
  • Ground water treatment
  • Filtration: multimedia, activated carbon, custom media
  • Hazardous and toxic wastewater

About Waterworks: What We Do

Waterworks has had the opportunity to complete multiple projects worldwide since 1985 for Fortune 500 companies and other regional companies/contractors. The skills and abilities of the Waterworks team have been demonstrated on a wide range of projects such as:

  • Turnkey systems for desalination, sewage treatment and wastewater treatment
  • Water recycle and reuse systems
  • Utilities systems management, sewage treatment, operations and ownership
  • Supply of potable desalinated water
  • Water and wastewater recycling systems
  • The emergency supply and installation of turnkey water and sewage treatment plants for army/NGO/construction/Oil & Gas camps

About Waterworks: Projects Locations

Waterworks has had the opportunity to complete multiple projects worldwide since 1985. The skills and abilities of the Waterworks team have been demonstrated on a wide range of projects such as:

  • Modular Wastewater Treatment Plant for a 8,000 men camp in Kosovo
  • 100+ containerized Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units (ROWPUs) for the US Army in Iraq
  • Full Water Treatment Plant (turnkey - with tanks, power generation and civil) of about 1,000,000 USGPD at Camp Adder – Tallil – Iraq (in 2 phases)
  • River Water Intake Treatment Plant for a large NOC in Iraq
  • A large number of Sewage Treatment Plants in India and Middle East
  • A large wastewater treatment plant for a national car manufacturer in Malaysia
  • And many more...

As a global company, Waterworks has constructed facilities all over world including:

  • The United States
  • Cyprus
  • Egypt
  • Kosovo
  • Canada
  • Saudi Arabia
  • India
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Iraq
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Afghanistan

About Waterworks: Technical Glossary

Adsorption
Separation of liquids, gases, colloids or suspended matter from a medium by adherence to the surface or pores of a solid.

AOP
Advanced Oxidation Processes

BOD
Biological Oxygen Demand

A measure of the amount of oxygen required to neutralize organic wastes.

BOO
Build, Own, Operate

Brackish water
Water that is neither falls in the category of salt water, nor in the category of fresh water. It holds the middle between either one of the categories.

Btex
Group of volatile compounds: benzene, toluene, and xylene.

CIP
Clean In Place

COD
Chemical Oxygen Demand

The amount of oxygen (measured in mg/L) that is consumed in the oxidation of organic and oxidasable inorganic matter, under test conditions. It is used to measure the total amount of organic and inorganic pollution in wastewater. Contrary to BOD, with COD practically all compounds are fully oxidized.

Conductivity
The amount of electricity the water can conduct. It is expressed in a chemical magnitude. Please use also our information about TDS and conductivity.

Dewater
The separation of water from sludge, to produce a solid cake.

DAF
Dissolved Air Flotation A procedure of induced flotation with very fine air bubbles or 'micro bubbles', of 40 to 70 microns.

BOT
Build, Own, Transfer

DI
De-ionized

Dissolved oxygen
The amount of oxygen dissolved in water at a certain time, expressed in ppm mg/L.

Effluent
The outlet or outflow of any system that deals with water flows, for an oxidation pond for biological water purification. It is the product water of the given system.

EA
Extended Aeration

Filter medium
The permeable material that separates solids from liquids passing through it.

FOG
Fat, Oil and Grease

Heavy metals
Metals that have a density of 5.0 or higher and a high elemental weight. Most are toxic to humans, even in low concentrations.

MCL Maximum Contaminant Level
Solids material that totally dissolves in water and can be removed by means of filtration.

Dissolved solids
MCL Maximum Contaminant Level The maximum level of a contaminant allowed in water by federal law. Based on health effects and currently available treatment methods.

Osmosis
Water molecules passing through membranes naturally, to the side with the highest concentration of dissolved impurities.

pH
"Power of Hydrogen" The level of alkalinity or acidity in the water

Potable water
Solids material that totally dissolves in water and can be removed by means of filtration.

Pre-treatment
Processes used to reduce or eliminate wastewater pollutants from before they are discharged.

Primary wastewater treatment
The removal of suspended, floating and precipitated solids from untreated wastewater.

Raw sewage
Untreated wastewater and its contents.

Raw water
Intake water before any treatment or use.

Reverse Osmosis process
The reverse osmosis (RO) process uses a semi-permeable membrane to separate and remove dissolved solids, organics, pyrogens, submicron colloidal matter, viruses, and bacteria from water. The process is called 'reverse' osmosis since it requires pressure to force pure water across a membrane, leaving the impurities behind.

Secondary treatment
The removal or reduction of contaminants and BOD of effluent from primary wastewater treatment.

SFEA
Submerged Filter Extended Aeration

SORF
Soluble Organic Reduction Filter

SS
Suspended solids classified as: large solids, grit, settleable solids, suspended solids, colloidial solids, dissolved solids

Suspended solids
Solid organic or inorganic particles that are held in suspension in a solution.

sVOC
Stable Volatile Organic Compounds

Tertiary treatment
Advanced cleaning of wastewater that goes beyond the secondary or biological stage, removing nutrients such as phosphorus, nitrogen, and most BOD and suspended solids.

TDS Total Dissolved Solids.
The weight per unit volume of water of suspended solids in a filter media after filtration or evaporation. Please use also our information about TDS and conductivity.

TFEA
Trickling Filter Extended Aeration

TH
Total hardness. The sum of calcium and magnesium hardness, expressed as a calcium carbonate equivalent.

TS
Total solids - the weight of all present solids per unit volume of water. It is usually determined by evaporation. The total weight concerns both dissolved and suspended organic and inorganic matter.

TSF
Tertiary Sand Filter

TSS
Total Suspended Solids

Total solids
All the solids in wastewater or sewage water, including suspended solids and filterable solids.

Trickling filter
A wastewater treatment unit that contains medium material with bacteria. The stream of wastewater is trickled over the medium and the bacteria break down the organic wastes. Bacteria are collected on the filter medium.

Turbidity
A measure of non-transparency of water due to the presence of suspended matter.

UF
Ultrafiltration

Ultraviolet oxidation
A process using extremely short wave-length light that can kill micro-organisms (disinfection) or cleave organic molecules (photo oxidation) rendering them polarized or ionized and thus more easily removed from the water.

UV
Ultraviolet - rRadiation that has a wavelength shorter than visible light. It is often used to kill bacteria and destroy ozone.

VOC
Volatile organic compound - synthetic organic compounds which easily vaporize and are often carcinogenic.

Wastewater
The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter.

Zero discharge water
The principle of "zero discharge" is recycling of all industrial wastewater. This means that wastewater will be treated and used again in the process. Because of the water reuse wastewater will not be released on the sewer system or surface water.

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