The Partnership for Safe Water recognizes Aurora, Illinois with Presidents Award for exceptional water quality.

Saving lives is an everyday goal for this award-winning water and wastewater training center.

This cold-weather phenomenon requires a particular set of variables: a clear night, a slight offshore wind and plunging temperatures. Learn why it can mean disaster for water system intakes.

In this week's news, a lead operator at an Illinois wastewater treatment plant is taken into police custody. Also, a municipality bans gas drilling wastewater.

In this week's news, a biosolids spill creates highway mayhem, water utilities up the ante for lawn replacement and a water tower collapse damages a church.

Every water plant has a story. But not every water plant has roots in the Great Chicago Fire, cholera outbreaks and a severe typhoid epidemic.

The Fox Valley Operators Association in Illinois draws more than 300 attendees to an annual mini-conference that includes seminars and vendor exhibits.