Entries Tagged Public Outreach

A water management district’s Splash! School Grant Program has benefited more than 60,000 students from 12 counties in the past 10 years.The...

Tiffany Poole holds a personal credo of paying it forward.“My favorite task is mentorship and empowerment of employees,” says Poole, supervising environmental...

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission’s water truck has been putting on a lot of miles for nearly 10 years, going to...

Arizona State University and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey recently announced that the university will lead a multiyear Arizona Water Innovation Initiative to...

Few would claim that clean-water and drinking water operators receive the credit they deserve or are held in the same esteem as...

A severe drought in 2015 led the California city of Davis to educate the public on how to help conserve water.The city...

Global water technology company Xylem has awarded a team of hackathon participants who developed an innovative app to promote sustainable water consumption....

The water sector faces a set of persistent challenges: developing the workforce of the future, deploying innovative technologies, defining research needs and...

Rising costs. Tightening regulations. New contaminants. Increased public scrutiny.The water-wastewater profession faces significant challenges, notes Brian Goetz, deputy director of public works...

When Markus Owens started working at the Honolulu Department of Environmental Services, he saw plenty of materials on recycling and trash, but...

WASTEWATER By Rick Lallish What test is done on influent and effluent samples to determine the volume of solids removed in clarifiers or ponds?...

Rodney Lance wasn’t sure what he was getting into when the Air Force assigned him to water and wastewater back in 1986.He...

Professional actors need not apply. California’s Leucadia Wastewater District produced a video describing its entire treatment process, and did it using field service...

Biosolids recycling has always existed under a cloud. Some people have concerns about odor. Heavy metals. Pathogens. Then there are the mischaracterizations of...