General Wastewater Equipment

Robert Kaplan, the EPA’s interim Region 5 director, says Flint, Michigan’s water plant should never have gotten the approval to operate.“No reasonable...

California’s multiyear drought was officially declared over on April 7, but the Legislature is on the verge of making the state a...

A local septic pumper is suing the city of Taylor, Texas, for racial discrimination because he allegedly wasn’t allowed to dump waste...

More stops for the Wastewater Equipment Fair are in the works after the event’s second run earlier this month in Dallas.The two-day...

They can be a drop of saltwater in the Atlantic Ocean. Or a drop of clean water fresh from a well. Or...

Ken Burgener was proud to learn that a student he had mentored had won a prestigious award in the Intel International Science...

Water and wastewater plant maintenance has undergone a revolution. Operators have moved from routinely servicing machinery at predetermined intervals regardless of condition...

Creating a field of native grasses, wildflowers and trees to attract nesting birds and other wildlife has been rewarding for operators of...

If you had to describe a hierarchy for public officials’ status among community residents, firefighters would be near the top; water and...

People/AwardsThe South Kingstown (Rhode Island) Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility received a 2016 Wastewater Treatment Regional Operations and Maintenance Excellence Award from the...

Increasingly strict federal and state reporting requirements have created a need for water and wastewater plant operators to easily and accurately track...

Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from...

The Utility of the Future Today Recognition Program is returning for a second year to honor water resource recovery facilities implementing the Utility of the...

A Baton Rouge Wastewater Treatment worker was recently hospitalized following an incident that left him trapped in a hole at the facility.The...

The Trump Administration’s proposed 2018 budget cuts to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rural water and wastewater grant program would likely...

Thirty minutes — that’s all it took for an unprecedented flooding event to almost incapacitate a major Seattle-area wastewater treatment plant and...

Extreme climate and weather events are occurring more frequently with more intensity. Central to these events are the impacts to water —...