Entries Tagged Algae

West Virginia American Water announced a contingency plan for its Huntington water treatment plant this week in response to an algae bloom...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a profile on the Cudahy (Wisconsin) Water Utility, which was published in the July 2015 issue...

On Aug. 7, President Barack Obama signed the Drinking Water Protection Act, which directs the EPA to develop a risk management plan...

Through a collaborative effort with Hazen and Sawyer and Utah State University, the AWWA is providing several free tools in its new online...

The City of Shawano, Wisconsin, has decided to spend $11,000 on a new lift station, thanks to a mystery flusher who has...

American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, has formed a partnership with LG Sonic to perform ultrasonic...

Algae blooms, microcystin, do-not-drink bans, toxins. Those buzzwords have floated across the lips of many municipal leaders this summer, especially after a...

On Sept. 3, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) will provide almost $12...

In Toledo, Ohio, where unsafe microcystin levels forced a drinking water emergency earlier this month, the water rumor mill continues to churn....

Officials lifted a ban on Toledo, Ohio, drinking water Monday morning after test results consistently showed “nondetectable” levels of mycrocystin, a neurotoxin...

The San Antonio Water System and Texas state regulators are debating ownership rights to treated wastewater once it’s released into a public...

Heavy rains and excess water from homeowner sump pumps nearly caused disaster at a treatment plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., last week.“Our...

An unreported mercury spill triggered concern over employee health at the East Lansing, Mich., Wastewater Treatment Plant after an anonymous caller tipped...