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Rural North Texas community cuts non-revenue water by 42% with pipeline leak detection technology
In the rural city of Iowa Park, Texas, the Cypress Water Transmission Line serves as a community backbone – delivering drinking water to 6,000 residents and local businesses.
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3 Latin American utilities solving the region’s toughest water challenges
From the Amazon rainforests to the Caribbean coasts, communities across Latin America are adapting to shifting water conditions. Changing weather patterns, population growth and expanding urban development are placing new demands on drinking water systems across the region.
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Xylem Solver: Transforming water challenges into completed projects
Choosing the right technology for a water system isn’t easy. The sheer number of options and technical details to sort through can quickly get overwhelming, even for seasoned engineers. That’s why Xylem developed Solver, a next generation digital platform that simplifies product selection and empowers users to make smarter decisions.
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Water Treatment Innovation for a Better Future
“We’re always looking for the overlaps between ecology, cost-efficiency and technological capabilities. When these all align, the impact can be spectacular.”...
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Reinventing Drinking Water Systems through Data
“I wanted to test whether what I believed could impact human health and economic cost reduction with a company driving the digital transformation of water.”...
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One Student’s Journey to Solve Water
“It’s important to get more people from different backgrounds involved in advancing innovation in water. The more diverse we are, the more powerful we can be.”...
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Shaping the Future of Water
“We develop innovative solutions for our customers with a clear aim in mind – to help mitigate major water challenges and make communities more resilient.”...
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People of Xylem: 6 women leading the way to solve water in China
Nearly one-fifth of the global population lives in China, yet the country holds less than 10% of the world’s renewable freshwater resources. Xylem’s team in...
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Xylem’s rapid response after storm hit southeastern Spain in 2019
On September 12, 2019, a massive storm hit the southeastern coast of Spain, delivering to some areas the heaviest rainfalls recorded since 1917. In Ontinyent,...
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Xylem’s temporary fire protection system enables fire pump room upgrade
When a commercial building in Massachusetts recently needed to upgrade its fire pump room, Xylem engineers created a unique temporary fire protection system....
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Handling hospital wastewater with care
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and communities across Italy braced themselves for an influx of cases. In Palermo, the Provincial Health...
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Xylem’s pumps and expertise support UAE after unprecedented rainwater flooding
Local authorities in Dubai were able to quickly manage unprecedented rainwater flooding in mid-January 2020 with support from Xylem. Seven advanced Godwin...
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National swimming complex in Budapest gets emergency pumping solution
The Alfred Hajós Swimming Complex in Budapest, Hungary, hosts major international swimming competitions, but since it sits on an island it needed an emergency...
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Big building projects get boost from Xylem’s Bell & Gossett pumps
Some of the biggest building projects in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit are using pumps and other equipment from Xylem’s Bell & Gossett brand. Learn about...
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Xylem Bell & Gossett reopens renovated Little Red Schoolhouse
Since its inception in 1954, more than 62,000 engineers, contractors and other hydronic, HVAC, and plumbing professionals have been educated at the Little Red...
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Q&A: Green building expert Peter Agneborn
Improving energy efficiency is a key part of green building. According to Peter Agneborn, Global Business Unit Director, HVAC & Commercial Building Services at...
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Bringing energy efficiency to Stockholm’s subway network
Working alongside rail maintenance company Strukton, Xylem is helping to replace old pumps in the Stockholm subway system with new, energy efficient ones. The...
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New energy-efficient neighborhood uses Xylem pump technology
The neighborhood of Nya Krokslätt in Gothenburg, Sweden, has a new energy-efficient solution for heating and cooling all buildings, thanks to a borehole...
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Irrigation pumps at golf course lower energy use by 60%
A 27-hole championship golf course is now even more sustainable thanks to a recent Lowara pump installation. After their first year of use, the irrigation...
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New Hydrovar pump controller cuts energy by 70%
Xylem has launched the fifth generation of Hydrovar, a variable speed drive pump controller that can reduce a pump’s energy consumption by as much as 70...
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Designing HVAC centrifugal pumps for optimal efficiency
When developing HVAC centrifugal pumps, designers have traditionally aimed at a pump’s highest point of efficiency. Given the wide variation in flow and...
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New online courses for HVAC and plumbing system design
Bell & Gossett (B&G) is expanding the reach of its industry-leading training with its Online Little Red Schoolhouse, an interactive series of free educational...
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Water reuse in food and beverage facilities
Xylem has produced a white paper to help companies in the food and beverage industry understand how water reuse can reduce supply risk, water use and expenses,...
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New white paper on EU pump efficiency regulations
As the EU seeks to become the most climate friendly region in the world, it is continuously introducing new regulations that place ever-stricter demands on CO...
