Access to safe, affordable water is a necessity for human health and well-being. But when droughts strike areas that are already water-stressed,...
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How Droughts Can Cause Higher Water Bills for Low-Income Households
Entries Tagged Drought
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Modern-day Freeze Protection Technologies Can Safeguard Treatment Plants' Critical Pipelines and Equipment
Water scarcity in the United States and worldwide makes reliability in wastewater treatment plants all the more urgent.Cold weather poses serious challenges...
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USBR Urges Central Valley Project Contractors to Prepare for Fourth Dry Year
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is asking its contractors receiving Central Valley Project water for municipal and industrial use to begin planning...
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Pure Water Westminster Lays a Foundation for Resiliency Against Future Water Shortages
In drought conditions the city of Westminster sometimes has to impose lawn watering or other restrictions. But that’s not the reason the...
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A Toad Professor Helps a California City Deliver the Message of Water Conservation
A severe drought in 2015 led the California city of Davis to educate the public on how to help conserve water.The city...
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New Research Reveals $3.7 Trillion Impact of Water Risk to the U.S. by 2050
New research, launched recently by global professional services company GHD, titled “Aquanomics: The economics of water risk and future resilience” reveals droughts,...
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This Oklahoma City Is Prepared in Case It Needs to Supplement Its Water Supply With Recycled Effluent
Bartlesville may never have to reuse its wastewater effluent as a supplement to its water supply, but the city is prepared if...
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California Students Win U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize for Drought-Stress Detection Project
The Water Environment Federation has announced that John Benedict Estrada and Pauline Victoria Estrada, siblings from Clovis North High School in California,...
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Bureau of Reclamation Takes Action to Boost Drought-Stricken Lake Powell
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently made an unprecedented move to protect water levels in Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border, announcing...
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Phoenix Approves Plan to Conserve Water in Effort to Add to Lake Mead Supply
The Phoenix City Council this month voted unanimously to allow the city to enter into an agreement with the Central Arizona Water Conservation...
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A Water Festival Delivers a Timely Message in the Face of a Historic Dry Spell
A Utah utility resumed its popular water festival in June 2021 after skipping a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — with a...
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Growing Up in a Drought-Plagued Region Helped Propel Lydia Teel Into a Water Career
Lydia Teel has a special place in her heart for water resources.
Growing up in northern Nevada, where constant drought made being water wise...
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Attention to the Basics Drives Success for Two Clean-Water Plants in a Suburban Phoenix Community
When Hector Delgadillo talks about meat and potatoes, he doesn’t mean dinner.
He’s talking about his staff at the Jomax and Beardsley Water...
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Researchers to Develop New Models for Forecasting Water Availability and Allocation in Kansas
Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering are teaming up with the Kansas Water Office to create models accounting for uncertainty about the state’s...
