Safety

The director of public works in Flint, Michigan, resigned last week amidst a drinking-water controversy that has resulted in legal action from several...

The American Public Works Association has announced its selection of 16 public works professionals from a large group of applicants for the 2015-16 APWA Emerging...

Usually when water utility employees receive job safety training, coming face to face with a gunman doesn’t come up as a likely...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established the Flint Safe Drinking Water Task Force to assist with developing and implementing a plan...

The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies honored 21 public drinking water systems with its top utility management awards on Oct. 12 in ceremonies...

The ability to hear is something most people probably take for granted until it’s gone. October is National Protect Your Hearing Month,...

Connecticut Water Company has been honored as a 2015 Management Innovation Award Winner by the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC).The public...

Online voting is now open in the Tank of the Year contest sponsored by Tnemec Company. This is the 10th year that Tnemec...

The contest may by extremely competitive, but fun and camaraderie are the big take-homes from those doing battle on the WEFTEC show...

The Ebola cases in the United States brought attention to the risks to clean-water plant workers posed by pathogens in wastewater.But Ebola...

The 150-watt, explosion-proof LED temporary manhole light fixture from Larson Electronics features a 21-inch manway support bracket that allows the light to...

With a three-year sales growth of 133 percent, GPS Insight again was recognized as one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies by Inc. magazine. GPS...

With summer utility work in full swing, ICUEE has launched a social media photo contest that gives the hardworking men and women...

A construction worker who was part of a crew working on a sewer main replacement project in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died last week...

Many municipalities are putting their facilities managers in tough situations with their aging equipment. Some of their old machinery or pumps or...

If California’s Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) could wrap up its mission in a single sentence, it might be “to take...

SENSIT Technologies, a global leader in gas detection and measurement instruments, recently announced that its HXG-2d Combustible Gas Leak Detector received ATEX...