The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is stepping up its water and sewer game — literally. The DEC wants to improve the health of rural Alaska residents with a new Alaska Water and Sewer Challenge.According to the Alaska DEC website, the purpose of the project is to “to find better and more affordable methods to deliver drinking water and sewage disposal services to rural Alaska.”The project stresses innovative approaches to decentralized water and wastewater treatment, recycling and minimal water usage systems, which are more suitable for individual homes and housing clusters.The DEP issued RFPs from August to November 2013 to
