Entries Tagged Rates

A linear digester mixer and other sustainability improvements help a growing Idaho city keep rates down and make use of resources.

The world is awash in plastic trash. Activists are railing against drinking straws. Meanwhile, bottled water occupies entire aisles in our stores.

Issues like improving water infrastructure need people willing to swear off extreme positions and approach problems in practical ways.

A wetland complex provides effective treatment for an Oregon city and saves some $55 million in capital costs for a facility expansion.

Major water infrastructure improvements can come with major rate increases. How can utilities shield low-income customers from expenses they can’t afford?

At Spartanburg Water, ice sales from treated water have supplied $1.5 million in revenue for infrastructure improvements.

In this week's water and wastewater news, a fire ignites at a Minnesota plant, East Lansing responds to worker lawsuit and Alabama utilities could lose tax exemption.

The Detroit water shut-offs beg the question: Where does the right to water begin and end?

An effort to collect on unpaid water bills throws the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department into the international spotlight.

Ralph Martini does whatever it takes for his community’s wastewater treatment system — even door-to-door selling when needed