Eastern Municipal Water District created water bottle fill stations for its schools and community gathering places to promote its tap water.
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We Need to Talk: How Wastewater Operators Can Lead the Biosolids Conversation
“For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmland…”
If...
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What Exactly Are Biosolids?
The clean-water industry decades ago came up with “biosolids” as a new term for the digested wastewater solids used for various beneficial...
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Workplace Safety Requires You to Be Present
There are many things that can distract us at work and in life in general. Family circumstances, financial struggles and medical issues...
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Bug of the Month: Exocellular Polysaccharide and Floc Formation
The subject of this article is not a “bug,” but rather a highly significant fraction of the mixed liquor which is critical...
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Silo-Busting Spurs Water Utility Success
In 2022, Phoenix Water Services experienced a change in surface-water quality in the wake of large rainfalls.But rather than have just the...
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U.S. House Funding Boosts Texas A&M Wastewater Surveillance Project
Texas A&M University-San Antonio is one step closer to launching a critical project to detect and research new and potentially threatening contaminants...
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How to Manage a Customer Data Breach
As a public utility, you may have files related to customers, including names, addresses, credit cards and other payment information. Naturally, keeping this...
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Workplace Dynamics Shift as More of Gen Z Enters the Workforce
The newest coming-of-age cohort that’s beginning to shift workplace dynamics is Generation Z, generally defined as the 72 million or so people...
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Stanford Researchers Propose New Metrics to Assess Water Affordability
Rising water prices in the U.S. are forcing many households to choose between rationing water or risking shutoff due to unpaid bills....
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NSF-Funded Project Promotes Reuse of Graywater in Households
A project led by UC Berkeley architecture professor Maria-Paz Gutierrez — with collaborators from UC Merced and two Texas universities — seeks to...
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Artificial Intelligence Could Help Forecast Harmful Algae Blooms
A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists plan to use artificial intelligence modeling to forecast, and better understand, a growing threat...
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Employee Input Improves Utilities
Back in 2013, employees in the planning and analysis division in the Hampton Roads Sanitation District came up with a bold idea:...
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NOAA Predicts Above-Normal 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
NOAA National Weather Service forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year. NOAA’s outlook for the...
















