Entries Tagged California

Two Dallas Water Utilities employees went above and beyond their call of duty when they stopped a robbery and subdued the suspect...

A three-judge panel in Pennsylvania has ruled the 48-year-old man who died of a heart attack during a 14-hour work shift was...

Water conservation is a team effort in drought-stricken California.As water suppliers search for new ways to meet the mandatory water use reductions...

Naegleria fowleri, also called “brain-eating amoeba,” has been found in a third Louisiana water system. The Terrebonne Parish utility district issued a...

After five punishing years, drought conditions have reached critical mass in California and much of the western United States. Smart infrastructure technology...

The City of Savannah, Georgia, plans to spend about $500,000 for a new drainage line to replace the aging 19th century stormwater...

Major rain events in sunny Southern California are not commonplace. In the midst of four years of severe drought, recent downpours have...

Josephina Guzman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.An underground explosion shot a nearly 300-pound manhole cover through the floor of...

Gamefication — the use of game mechanics in non-game contexts — has been used in everything from encouraging consumer buy-in to crafting...

City Council Votes to Reactivate Desalination Plant Santa Barbara City Council members voted unanimously July 21 in favor of spending $55 million to...

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

Last year, a water main break on Sunset Boulevard spewed 20 million gallons of water into the surrounding community and caused major...

“If there’s no snowpack, there’s no water.”A recent report by the New York Times highlights some of the challenges faced by the...

The Fargo Water Utility (North Dakota) will now have to add zebra mussels to its list of concerns. After performing some precautionary...