Wastewater Stepchild? Changing the Perception of Stormwater

Clean-water professionals have long looked at stormwater as an entirely separate issue. Important signs indicate that is changing.

Once upon a time, sewage and stormwater in cities flowed through the same pipes to treatment plants. The inevitable result was overloading of those plants during heavy storms, leading to severe water pollution. Communities then spent years and billions of dollars creating mostly...

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