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On a cold December day in 2017, Madison Water Utility (MWU) got a call. “It was the airport saying ‘there’s water bubbling up...

Forty years ago, a surge of resources and new recruits flooded the sewer and water industry due to the Clean Water Act amendment....

Thinking twice about what consumers flush away may help them save money, and the environment. Ryerson University recently released a new report...

The Utility of the Future Today recognition program is returning for a fourth year to honor water resource recovery facilities for community...

The wastewater infrastructure system in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is undergoing a massive makeover, mostly in an effort to boost the system’s ability to...

A significant problem for many municipalities is combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Now, imagine the scale of the problem when your streams are...

It’s a tall order. Every spring, Madison (Wisconsin) Water Utility crews set out to clear mineral sediment from some 900 miles of...

Though flooding isn’t a new challenge for heartland utilities, the unpredictable nature of snowmelt is a cause for anxiety. “There’s a lot of...

A city engineer, heavy equipment, foremen, operators. They’re all important factors on any job that a water or sewer utility might undertake...

The water management goal in Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson, is to use renewable water resources whenever and wherever possible. The utility relies...

It’s 10:30 p.m. in the middle a February deep freeze when the call comes in — a 6-inch wide water main has ruptured beneath...

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has authorized the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to establish the UW System’s first Bachelor of...

Microplastics contaminate the world’s surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in groundwater systems. A new study...

Elizabethton, Tennessee, has merged its separate water and wastewater divisions into a single Water Resources Department and is realizing synergies, cost savings...

A couple hallmarks of good CCTV inspection operators are resourcefulness and an abundance of common sense when it comes to solving safety...

After hitting a 50-year low in 2017, water use in Madison was down once again in 2018. Madison Water Utility pumped 9.2...

Last year, DC Water opened the first 7-mile segment of its Anocostia River Tunnel system — a massive storage structure for combined...

Now that winter has taken hold, it’s a good time to review some of the actions sewer and water utilities can take...

Water use across the country reached its lowest recorded level in 45 years. According to a report earlier this year from the...