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Entries Tagged Communication
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How Not to do Public Outreach
So you have a huge street project that will disrupt the day-to-day activities of several neighborhoods, while costing a fair amount of...
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Utility Uses Multi-Faceted Public Outreach Approach for Large Pipeline Project
The public impact of a 6.6-mile-long water main replacement project has been top of mind for Louisville Water Co. officials from the...
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News Briefs: D.C. Water Prepares for Final Phase of Massive CSO Project
D.C. Water recently awarded its largest contract ever — a 5-mile tunnel costing $580 million that will help avoid CSOs into the...
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Utility Provides Real-Time Overflow Tracking to Public
While a Canadian utility continues to work to reduce its overflows, it’s at least taking a proactive approach in notifying the public...
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Selling Overflow Control to the Public
A $729 million multi-project CSO control plan spanning two decades requires some public education. But what do you do when people aren’t...
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Water Professionals Take On Role As First Responders
The important role of water professionals as first responders was a lesson relearned after 9/11 and again after hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Sandy...
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Trying to Reduce Stormwater Runoff? In Philly, There's an App for That
Philadelphia’s program that is striving to reduce stormwater runoff in the city recently added a new wrinkle. And it’s going to save...
Blogs
4 Evolved Pokemon That Could Protect Our Water
Editor's Note: This blog was originally posted on Think at the Sink, a public education arm of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities Department. Here...
Videos
Hear What’s Important
Walt Logan, from Dig This Heavy Equipment Playground, has been running heavy equipment since the mid-1960s and knows that communication is important...
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Road Safety
A lonely highway winds through a mountain pass. Two workers in a safety cone truck slowly navigate the curves, placing safety cones to direct traffic...
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Minnesota City Tackles Illegal Sump Pump Connections
With any luck, by the end of the summer, illegal sump pump connections in homes will be a thing of the past...
Editorial
Rebuilding a Downtown’s Infrastructure
When you’re digging up streets that haven’t been dug up for decades, surprises are sure to emerge. The Northern Wisconsin city of...
Blogs
10 Reasons Why Utilities Ignore Non-Revenue Water
Utilities nationwide are facing incredible costs to upgrade aging and inadequate infrastructure and address challenges related to drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater management...




















