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More than 4,400 students from 150 countries participate in Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge
High school and university students developed solutions to the world’s biggest water security and sustainability threats. Meet this year’s winners.
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Young innovators solve water at the 2023 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge
Winning university-level team uses data science to tackle marine pollution.
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From spider web to solving water
Meet our innovation challenge high school winners. It started with a spider web and ended with impressive new insights on solving a growing global water...
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Redefining innovation for sustainability impact
Q&A with Xylem’s Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact Austin Alexander. To mitigate growing water and climate threats, utilities and businesses are...
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Partnering to Solve Water in India
Partnership is core to how Xylem operates and to our work to solve water in India. To solve the world’s biggest water challenges, you need partners who share a...
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Xylem named Water Technology Company of the Year
Xylem was named the Water Technology Company of the Year at the 2018 Global Water Awards. The award is presented to the company that made the most significant...
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Adaptive N technology now in Flygt compact wastewater pumps
Xylem has launched a newly enhanced compact pump range featuring its patented Adaptive N™ technology, designed to eliminate clogging. The company has also...
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Xylem solution helps prevent flooding at Three Gorges Dam
Situated on the Yangtze River in China, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. A Xylem solution at the dam provides data that...
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Beer-in-box solution uses Xylem’s Flojet beverage pump
Carbotek has developed an innovative bag-in-box solution for beer that lowers shipping costs and eliminates the need for kegs. Once delivered, the boxed beer...
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Variable Speed Wastewater Pumping – Saving energy and optimizing system performance
Variable Speed Wastewater Pumping – Saving energy and optimizing system performance Pumping with variable speed wastewater pumps can result in better process...
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Thai students win 2016 Stockholm Junior Water Prize
An innovative device that mimics the water retention of the bromeliad plant has won three students from Thailand the 2016 Stockholm Junior Water Prize. The...
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2016 finalists for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize
In a little more than a week, young scientists from all over the world will be meeting in Sweden for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. Their contributions...
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Developing China’s largest underground wastewater recycling plant
Xylem has been selected to support the development of the largest underground, wastewater recycling plant in China. The new 31 hectare Beijing water recycling...
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Benefits of Using Variable Frequency Drives for Phase Conversion
Most people associate variable frequency drives (VFD’s) as being utilized to vary the speed of an electric motor. While this can help pumps and other rotating...
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The world’s first wastewater pumping system with integrated intelligence
Xylem has developed a smart wastewater pumping system that senses the operating conditions of its environment, adapts its performance in real time and provides...
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Flygt SmartRun’s cleaning function wins 2016 RIONED Innovation Award
Xylem recently announced that Flygt SmartRun’s cleaning function has won the 2016 RIONED Innovation Award. The RIONED Foundation is the national center of...
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US student wins Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Perry Alagappan of Houston, Texas, has been announced as the international winner of this year’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize. His project involved using...
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Junior Water Prize finalists head to Stockholm
There is no shortage of amazing ideas and research in the finalist projects for this year’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize. From radiation-monitoring robots to...
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Sanitaire solution reduces energy by 43 percent
When a brush aerator needed to be replaced at the wastewater treatment plant in Liberty, New York, the plant decided to upgrade its operations. A new Sanitaire...
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Solving California’s drought with water recycling
Last week California Governor Jerry Brown signed emergency legislation that fast-tracks more than $1 billion in funding for drought relief and critical water...
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Water reuse saves food processing facility $300,000 annually
As one of the largest raisin producers in the industry, National Raisin uses a lot of water to clean and process its raisins. As sales and production...
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New report on clogging and throughlet size
Pump manufacturers have traditionally believed that pump clogging can be avoided by making the internal pump throughlet equal to or larger than what can be...
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Singapore’s future water strategy
Harry Seah is Director of Technology and Water Quality at Singapore’s national water agency, PUB. Here he talks to Impeller about Singapore’s efforts to become...
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New entry tops top-entry agitator market
Flygt top-entry agitators save energy and support methane gas recovery. Xylem has launched a series of new Flygt topentry agitators that off er benefits in...