The Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is a small piece of man-made nature in an urban jungle, but its impact is anything but...
Entries Tagged Conservation
Editorial
More Than 170 Species of Bird Visit This Wastewater Plant
Of four wastewater treatment facilities operated by Indian River County Utilities, the 6 mgd (design) West Regional Wastewater Facility is the most...
Editorial
Municipalities Teaming Up to Protect Waterways from Excessive Nutrients
Plant upgrades to meet new phosphorus permit limits can cost clean-water agencies millions of dollars. In Wisconsin, the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District...
Blogs
Take Charge of Your Facility's Water Usage
Water is a precious resource. Now, more than ever, businesses and facilities must take charge of their water usage to help with water conservation and...
Online Exclusives
EPA Announces Funding for Water Reuse and Conservation Research
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $3.3 million in funding to five institutions to research human and ecological health impacts associated with water reuse...
Editorial
When Did Resource Frugality Become Un-American?
While in college working for peanuts in the cafeteria dish room, I heard two opposite and striking attitudes toward food waste.One student...
Editorial
Improvements That Pay Their Way
In the Town of Windsor, water conservation has been a challenge for decades, but in 2012 this small Northern California community hit...
Blogs
Water Utility Contest Urges Residents to Reduce Plastic Bottle Use
In an effort to reduce the 2.5 million plastic water bottles tossed by Americans every hour, the Madison (Wis.) Water Utility (MWU)...
Editorial
Making Conservation Pay
Automakers offer cash rebates. Shoe stores offer buy-one-get-one-free deals. Grocery stores offer double-coupon days. And the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority...
Editorial
Ear to the Ground
Ever since Dallas Water Utilities targeted water conservation awareness in 2001, the pattern has been to run a campaign for two years,...
Blogs
Progress report stresses the need for national assessment of water availability
We know the status — as bleak as it may be — of America’s infrastructure thanks to the American Society of Civil...
Editorial
Less Is Better
When your organization provides water to a major city in the middle of the second-largest desert in North America, a...
Editorial
A Case of Over-Pumping?
City leaders in a coastal community asked residents not to drink water from the tap or use it for cooking....
Editorial
Straight to the People
In a region considered rich in water resources, two droughts in the first decade of the new century helped drive...














