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While in the grand scheme of things, five seconds isn’t all that long, it’s longer than you may think. One common question...

The American Water Works Association’s ACE13 kicked off in Denver yesterday afternoon, and while the Sunday evening opening was relaxed, the show...

When a woman in Escondido, Calif., received a $16,000 water bill for roughly 30 days worth of service from December 2012 to...

The results of a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency survey should come as no surprise, but the numbers are still alarming. EPA’s fifth...

Meet Joe Gillis, burly employee of the Las Vegas Sewer Maintenance System. Just another day of work in the dirty sewers. Except...

Everyone in the sewer business has a story or two to tell about items they’ve found stuck in pipes. An emergency crew...

Municipal workers were in for quite a surprise when a 2006 street excavation in Lower Manhattan in New York exposed wooden pipes...

People in the public works field are used to doing good work without getting a lot of credit. You typically only hear...

This week is National Drinking Water Week, and water utilities across the country are doing their part to educate their customers on...

Workers face many dangers in the underground world of wastewater. Sadly, the life of one young worker was taken last week when...

No one in this industry questions the urgent need for more dollars to address serious infrastructure issues that are plaguing the nation’s...

The Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo is only a few days away, and we’re doing some new things this year for you...

The 2013 Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo is just around the corner. Last year was my first trip to the Expo, and...

American Water has released a new white paper titled, The “One Water” Approach. The paper discusses the need to begin looking at...

Whether you’ve been directly affected by it or not, most of you are probably aware of the cleanup efforts on the East...

Ever wonder what would it would look like if your combo unit got hit by a train? Wonder no more. A construction...

Readers typically think of magazines as a one-way means of communication. Publishers, along with editors, writers and photographers, provide information to be...

Everyone in the municipal sewer and water industry encounters an emergency situation from time to time. Usually it’s a broken water main...

Stormwater utility managers plan their systems around the size of the biggest storm they would typically expect in a given time period,...