Stormwater management has many critical goals: protect local bodies of water, eliminate soil erosion and damage to structures, return as much water...
Entries Tagged Public Education
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Decrease in Water Demand Triggers Revenue Concerns
A paper recently released by Ceres, “Assessing Water System Revenue Risk: Consideration for Market Analysis,” discusses an issue many water systems across...
Editorial
A System for Clean Sewers
In a major metropolitan area with close to 6,000 restaurants, one of the major challenges for the Pretreatment and Laboratory Services Division...
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Maine Wastewater Association Awards Students for Poster Contest
In 1983 the Maine Legislature made provisions to designate the first full week of June as Maine Clean Water Week. Maine Clean...
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Public Works Week Honors Contributions to Quality of Life
People in the public works field are used to doing good work without getting a lot of credit. You typically only hear...
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Revamped public education campaign spurs watershed awareness in Southern California
By relaunching a new website and reinventing the face of its public education campaign, the Ventura (Calif.) Countywide Stormwater Quality Management Program...
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California district empowers water ambassadors
Serving more than 110,000 customers in an 18-square-mile area in Southern California, Mesa Water District has mastered the art of teaching. The...
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Nondispersibles cause concern in Wisconsin community
Products labeled as flushable will continue to be a concern among municipalities and treatment facilities dealing with overflows, damaged equipment and increased...
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Keep the lines open: Dallas program focuses on keeping grease out of collection system
Normally Helen Cantril Dulac finds her agenda full of speaking engagements with school-age students in the Dallas area, but in the next...
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Customer engagement at the forefront of municipal interaction
Harris Utilities, a software solutions company, has released CustomerConnect, the Web-based customer engagement program for municipal utilities.
A challenge many utilities face is...
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N.Y. DEP and American Water Resources offer homeowner service line protection programs
New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland and American Water Resources (AWR) President Malcolm D. Conner announced the...
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Texas Watershed Steward training set for Jan. 24 in Navasota
A Texas Watershed Steward workshop on water-quality issues related to the Brazos River Basin will be held from 8 a.m. to 4...
Editorial
All on the Same Page
Conservation is a topic on the minds of all water distribution professionals. Drought conditions that swept across much of the U.S....
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Portland Rain Garden and Swales Bike Tour
With a big share of their city served by combined sewers that carry both wastewater and stormwater runoff, Portland, Ore., officials have...















