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Four years ago, the employee recognition committee in Calvert County, Maryland, had a genius idea. Similar to the popular reality show Undercover...

I live in one of the nearly 15 million U.S. households that depend on well water. Most days, I don’t give it a...

You never know what a day will bring. One minute, you’re making rounds at your plant, and the next you’re lassoing an...

It was a busy holiday weekend, full of fireworks and ice cream and swimming and hot summer weather. Whether you were lucky...

Not everyone is a champion of municipal wastewater treatment. Many in your city don’t think twice about what happens when they flush...

This past week, Pope Francis released the Laudato Si, an encyclical addressing climate change and its effects on the world’s most vulnerable populations....

We’re counting down the final hours of the American Water Works Association’s ACE15 conference in Anaheim, California. Thousands of attendees have made...

COLE Inc. is now accepting proposals for seminars to be presented at the 2016 WWETT Show in Indianapolis, Indiana, Feb. 17-20.Education is...

Eric Swope’s job as industrial pretreatment coordinator at the Keene (New Hampshire) Wastewater Treatment plant involves keeping harmful substances out of the...

Municipal and utility budgets are often thin these days, and that can make it hard to pay well enough to attract and...

When it comes to municipal budgets, we all know it’s difficult to ask for increased funding. And, unfortunately, it’s extremely difficult to...

Truck it to farm fields. Ship it to composters and blenders. Fertilize trees. Bag it up for sale at the garden store....

What do you get when you mix climate change, burgeoning populations and growing economies? According to a new study by the International...

Since I became editor of Treatment Plant Operator in 2009, I’ve been wishing for a resource to explain wastewater treatment in simple...

Not a month goes by that we don’t read about scams targeting utility customers. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty common occurrence.Here’s just a...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of serious flooding in Rhode Island, which some heralded as a 500-year flood. The flooding overwhelmed the Warwick...

We’re all Irish this week, right? Well, if Irish means green, then these breweries really fit the bill. And by green, I...

Forget the screaming sheep, dancing skeletons and thousands of lip-synced renditions of Let it Go; YouTube is more than just a place...

Any wastewater treatment process has the potential to generate and release nuisance odors to the surrounding area — especially when tanks and...