Entries Tagged California

A humble bacterium first isolated in New York’s Lake Oneida almost 30 years ago could change the world. With its innate ability...

Residents near Bloomfield, New Mexico, are forming their own utility after dealing with bad water for the past nine months. The state...

Post-storm flooding and damage at the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle has caused the plant to operate at half capacity, and...

As a small wastewater/recycled water agency with just 21 employees, the San Elijo Joint Powers Authority (SEJPA) has accomplished big things.In 2016,...

An accidental keystroke from a plant operator left around 80,000 Orange County residents without water for more than 24 hours.According to a...

Communities in California and Arizona could be more drought resistant in the near future, as both states are looking at enacting regulations for...

Parents of students at Summit (Pennsylvania) Township Elementary School weren’t told about high levels of lead in the school’s drinking water until...

A new study from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) shows that human consumption could deplete groundwater aquifers in California’s Central Valley, Tulare...

Many courts over the years have ruled against local ordinances to ban or restrict beneficial use of biosolids.Now a decision in a...

Its computer network under relentless attack, the wastewater-treatment plant’s systems fail, and a tank begins to overflow. Workers scramble to compensate, and...

A 52-year-old city worker from Tampa, Florida, was killed at a wastewater facility last week after getting pinned between a dump truck...

The community of Southwest Harbor, Maine, recently had a fire truck pumping its drinking water through the system after a pump failure.Firefighters...

Editor’s Note: Each month, we’ll bring you a roundup of new water and wastewater projects from across the country. If you would like...

In today’s volatile political arena, water is perhaps more important than it has ever been. And with new regulations and technological changes...