Lately your correspondent has been reflecting: have we made any real progress in biofouling control in wells? I don't mean the science or technology, where there is undoubtedly real, revolutionary progress.
We're talking about the point of application, at the town wellfield. I think there is not enough progress, and not because we have not been making the effort to put the advances in front of the end-user audiences.
- We write: Standard Methods, independent texts, chapters in association texts, articles ...
- We talk: Conferences, seminars, short courses ...
- We're here on the web and in social media ...
It is time the managers -- that is, those with the power of the purse, pay attention. A lot of the front-line managers and operators get it. It is time to fully embrace better methods and shed the overpromoted and underperforming.
Read the commentary and let us know what you think.
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