Few communities in America are more conscious of their water supply than Marana, Arizona.
Located a few miles northwest of Tucson along Interstate...
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News Briefs: Phony Utility Workers Arrested After Attempted Robbery
Entry 339513Two individuals in Phoenix, Arizona, recently were arrested for posing as utility workers and attempting to rob an elderly couple in...
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News Briefs: Plumbers Spend 10 Hours Rescuing Kitten From Sewer Pipe
Entry 339638A group of plumbers recently spent 10 hours rescuing a kitten from a sewer pipe at a condo in Chicago. Some...
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Quantifying the Positive Impact of Stormwater Retention Basins
Acknowledging that it all flows downhill, engineers at the Keno Environmental Restoration Project in Southern Arizona recently decided to take what nature...
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Utility Uses Stormwater to Create an Urban Oasis
Some stormwater projects protect assets. Pima County, Arizona, used its stormwater to create assets.
A couple of decades ago, the county, with help...
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Reclaimed Wastewater Will Soon Revive a Landmark Arizona River
Drought and decimated water bodies have become common in recent decades, but Tucson, Arizona, is fighting against the death of their once-great...
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News Briefs: Homeowner Discovers Drain Was Never Connected to City Sewer
Entry 339802A Reddit user wrote a story this week about how he bought a newly flipped house, only to discover three months...
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News Briefs: Firefighters Rescue Sewer Worker Stuck in Concrete
Entry 339851First responders recently rescued a sewer repair worker who was stuck in concrete at an excavation site in Lamay, Missouri.
The worker...
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Best Advice of 2017: Nuggets of Wisdom from Nine Successful Utilities
As is typically the drill when the latter part of December arrives and a new year approaches, it’s time for some reflection....
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Water Conservation Linked to Lower Rates
There can be a disconnect between utilities and customers when water conservation is pushed for, yet rates continue to rise. A new...
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News Briefs: Major Reservoir Releasing More Water Due To Wet Winter
An above-average amount of water will be released this year from Lake Powell, one of the country’s major reservoirs, but not as...
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News Briefs: City in Dispute Over Time Frame for Addressing Overflow Issues
The city of Alexandria, Virginia, and an environmental group are at odds over the timetable for replacement of the city’s largest combined...
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Catching Up to the Boom
The population of Gilbert, Arizona, has skyrocketed from under 6,000 in 1980 to more than 240,000 today. That growth required rapid construction...
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Pre-Emptive Strike
Alvin Robertson recalls his first look at a deteriorating i manhole, which inspired a new program to systematically map, inspect and rehabilitate...
















