Entry 244390The Canadian province of Ontario recently filed 112 charges against a door-to-door salesman using misleading claims to offer water treatment services...
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News Briefs: Lawmakers Propose Abolishing Fluoridation in New Hampshire
Entry 244396Republicans in New Hampshire have proposed a bill to abolish fluoridation in municipal water systems. The House Resources, Recreation and Development...
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Midwest Flooding Wreaks Havoc on Water/Wastewater Utilities
Heavy rainfall and rapid snowmelt throughout the Midwest has triggered widespread catastrophic flooding, which is causing major problems for water and wastewater...
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News Briefs: EPA Won't Limit PFAS in Nation's Drinking Water, Says Politico
Entry 244474An exclusive report by Politico claims the federal Environmental Protection Agency will not regulate perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...
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News Briefs: Former WWTP Supervisor to Plead Guilty to Federal Charges for False Reports
Entry 244508A former supervisor of a wastewater treatment plant in Sioux City, Iowa, plans to plead guilty to federal charges that accuse...
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News Briefs: 'Brain-Eating Amoeba' Returns to Louisiana Parish
Entry 245066Naegleria fowleri, colloquially known as the brain-eating amoeba, has made a return to Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana. It’s the third time...
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Iowa Children’s Water Festival Teaches Fifth-Graders About Water at an Opportune Age
There’s a lesson about water pollution to be found in a plastic cup filled with gummy bears, chocolate sauce and other assorted...
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News Briefs: Fire at Minnesota Plant Causes 'Catastrophic Damage'
Entry 245082A fire inside the biosolids building of a wastewater treatment plant in Northfield, Minnesota, resulted in catastrophic damage, according to the...
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Art and Landscaping Combine to Decorate a New Water Treatment Plant
An August 2017 open house and ribbon-cutting at the 15 mgd Ames (Iowa) Water Treatment Plant welcomed the public and launched a...
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News Briefs: Welder Thrown 50 Feet in WWTP Explosion
A worker in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was seriously injured earlier this month in an explosion that occurred while he was welding a wastewater...
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News Briefs: School Accused of Lead Contamination Cover-Up
Parents of students at Summit (Pennsylvania) Township Elementary School weren’t told about high levels of lead in the school’s drinking water until...
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News Briefs: Florida Woman Caught on Video Tampering with Wastewater Plants
A 33-year-old woman from Panama City, Florida, was caught on video and later arrested for allegedly tampering with a number of municipal...
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News Briefs: Sioux City Treatment Plant Management Under FBI Scrutiny
An ongoing investigation into Sioux City, Iowa’s wastewater treatment plant has led FBI agents to obtain a search warrant and seize computer...
Editorial
Partnership for Safe Water Keeps Marshalltown Water Works Moving Forward
For many years, employees at Marshalltown (Iowa) Water Works were used to doing things a certain way. The Partnership for Safe Water...













