ABC 15 News Arizona
New semiconductor plants and expanding data centers are among the types of businesses sparking an industrial boom in Arizona. But with that trend come challenges to deal with the contaminated industrial wastewater produced these kinds of operations. Research Associate Professor Shahnawaz Sinha and Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, whose expertise includes water quality research, industrial water treatment, water purification and related pursuits, comment on various options such as use of advanced membrane filtration technology and mobile water recycling systems that could be used to help overcome the problem.
