Environmental stewardship enabled through understanding and innovation. Increasingly stringent regulations, population growth, site constraints, reuse demands and aging infrastructure make wastewater treatment and collection more challenging than ever. Understanding the complexities that face today's utilities, Black & Veatch develops creative solutions that balance efficiency and effectiveness.

Combining innovation and experience for cost-effective solutions. In addition to possessing world-renowned expertise in conventional treatment processes, Black & Veatch is also a leader in developing and implementing innovative treatment processes such as membrane technologies, UV disinfection, integrated fixed-film activated sludge, ballasted flocculation and submerged aerated filters. Our design approach includes state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics and complex dynamic computer simulation software.

When it comes to residuals management, less is more. Black & Veatch is pioneering the development and application of advanced technologies such as heat drying, thermal hydrolysis technology and temperature-phased anaerobic digestion.

Meeting the challenge of aging underground infrastructure. Water and wastewater utilities alike face tremendous financial challenges in rehabilitating aging infrastructure to meet a host of new regulations. In many systems, sewer discharges referred to as sanitary and combined sewer overflows (SSOs and CSOs) have become a major focus of utility efforts. Black & Veatch specialists help wastewater utilities assess and upgrade their systems using state-of-the-art hydraulic analysis, flow monitoring and analysis and software applications.