Education and Training

ACM Facility Safety and the Institute of Hazard Prevention present the Inspire 2014 Conference May 6-8, 2014, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The...

A water main break in Janesville, Wis., blew a 20-foot-wide hole in a street and created a 30-foot-high water geyser. The 12-inch...

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has proclaimed this week, March 17-23, as Water and Wastewater Operator’s Week. Luke Markko, president of the Fox...

What’s the most dangerous place in your wastewater treatment plant? Headworks. Biosolids area. Electrical panels.Think again. It could be your laboratory. While...

A broad array of water sector groups from across the country will join forces this spring in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural...

People/AwardsBob Conner, assistant director of the water and wastewater utility for the City of Lakeland (Fla.), was promoted to interim director.Peter A....

After a punishing winter, full of snowstorms, ice storms and every mix of precipitation Mother Nature could conjure up, many freeways and...

Stanford University researcher Yaniv Scherson has developed a process that captures ammonia from wastewater, converts it to nitrous oxide, and then burns...

How readily does your clean-water plant welcome tours? The treatment plant in Casper, Wyo., entertained just one engineering student for a tour...

Working a booth at a local lakes festival, Theresa Sailor learned that about 80 percent of people didn’t know where water flowing...

A Rice University study of “superbugs” found at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China should alert operators at U.S. wastewater facilities...

People/AwardsThe Las Virgenes Municipal Water District received the District Transparency Certificate of Excellence from the Special District Leadership Foundation for transparency in...

In Winona, Minn., where residents have kept water running to ward off frozen pipes, the city council has decided to issue a...

One of the pictures says it all: Two beakers of water from the Albert Lea (Minn.) Wastewater Treatment Plant, one filled with...

When operators are faced with licensing exams, they sometimes struggle with test anxiety because they don’t fully understand how to properly study...

Deep frost lines in northern Wisconsin, which have plagued municipal water pipes for months, are now affecting wastewater treatment plants. In Eagle...

The Obama Administration released its FY2015 budget request today, which proposes $500 million in cuts to the Clean Water and Drinking Water...