What would you do with $100 billion to spend on water infrastructure? That’s the question the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread posed to...
Entries Tagged Drinking Water
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Nearly $400 Billion Needed for Water Infrastructure
The results of a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency survey should come as no surprise, but the numbers are still alarming.
EPA’s fifth...
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Human Side of Water Treatment Seen In 3 Washington State Award Winners
Water treatment can be an anonymous profession and one largely taken for granted: customers turn on their taps and safe, good tasting...
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American Water Receives 10 Awards for Excellence in Water Quality
American Water Works Company Inc., the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, is proud to announce the achievement of...
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Old Pipes Reveal Truth About 200-Year-Old Water Distribution System
Municipal workers were in for quite a surprise when a 2006 street excavation in Lower Manhattan in New York exposed wooden pipes...
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Team Dedication Earns Michigan Water Supervisor Public Utility Award
Bari Wrubel, supervisor of the Marysville, Mich., water and wastewater treatment plants, has been named Public Utility Management Professional of the Year...
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EPA Awards $560 Million in Funding to Storm-Damaged Wastewater and Drinking Water Facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will provide grants of $340 million to the state of New York and...
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Water Purification Demonstration Project Boosts Recycled Water Initiative
The practice of replenishing reservoirs or groundwater basins with highly treated wastewater is not new. Orange County, Calif.; El Paso, Texas; Payson,...
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Drought Defeated
You’d think the Harlingen WaterWorks System (HWWS) would be sweating bullets over the severe drought the south Texas city of 80,000 has...
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National Drinking Water Week: What are your plans?
National Drinking Water Week is just around the corner. Are you ready? Countless water treatment plants are ramping up for a week...
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Ensuring Water Quality in West Virginia
Richard Weigand’s introduction to the clean-water industry is familiar, but definitely far from boring. It began with a summer job during high...
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American Water’s John Bigelow to moderate National Water Infrastructure Summit
American Water Works Company Inc., the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced that John R. Bigelow, senior vice...
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Utility Service Group earns NSF certificate for helium injection to detect leaks
Utility Service Group, which has served the water industry for over 50 years, has earned certification from NSF International for injecting helium...
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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...









