Editorial Articles

Humor in today’s workplace isn’t always a laughing matter. In fact, the jokes that used to make you a hero around the...

Under the right conditions, the City of Wausau, Wis., uses slip-lining as an alternative to cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lining to rehabilitate aging...

Point repair crews from the Atlantic Beach (Fla.) Public Works Department had made several repairs to the road and inlets at either...

An estuary is an area where a river meets and mixes with the sea, and is influenced by changing tides, temperatures and...

If you don’t set goals and have a 10-year plan and strategy, you’re just treading water. Budgets are great. But numbers aren’t...

In my newspaper reporting days I once saw a sign in a town hall that compared the price of water to beverages...

Association NewsCollection Systems ConferenceThe Water Environment Federation is sponsoring Collection Systems: Regional Planning for Compliance — The Future with Multi-Jurisdictional Organizations on...

Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is to turn the problem into the solution.That may be the case with stormwater runoff...

When the protective coating on steel water and gas pipelines starts to deteriorate, corrosion isn’t far behind. But trying to locate those...

Five years ago, only a crystal ball could have shown how quickly NASSCO would grow. At the time, our headquarters office space...

Few managers relish calling out an employee for poor performance. The reasons can vary, but the outcome is always the same —...

Water entering the basement of a school in downtown Chicago, Ill., was the first clue the Chicago Water Department had that something...

Pipe location systems use a variety of technologies to detect underground utilities. The objective always is to make locating as easy as...

At 5:16 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, 1981, an explosion in downtown Louisville, Ky., hurled a passenger car into a railroad overpass...

For more than eight decades, the Western Carolina Regional Sewer Authority has protected the public health and provided infrastructure to support economic...

A 100-year decision changed the course of the Water Division in Iowa City, Iowa.The original water treatment plant, built in 1882 and...

For companies in the private sector, public relations is an accepted and essential function. A business may have a public relations representative...

Ogunquit is a seasonal resort town on the coast of Maine, but its sewer district faces some big, non-seasonal problems: relentless tides,...

IDEX Acquires Nova TechnologiesIDEX Corp. has acquired Nova Technologies Corp. for $158 million. NTC is a provider of metering technology and flow...