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Teaching Water Customers to Go with the Flow
A common lament among utilities is that their customers don’t appreciate their product — safe, clean and reliable tap water.Consumers do largely take...
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Drinking Water Week Provides Prime Opportunity for Public Outreach
Five-hundred water utilities and other agencies are included in the American Water Works Association’s list of participants celebrating Drinking Water Week this...
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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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Watershed District Turns Stormwater Repairs into Public Outreach Effort
For a Minnesota watershed district, a months-long repair of a large stormwater tunnel turned into a prime public outreach opportunity.In December, the...
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New Initiative Raises Awareness of Water Sector Challenges
Grundfos has announced the launch of its Who Runs the Water that Runs America initiative, which was created to help water and wastewater utilities...
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New Solutions For Lake Erie’s Challenges
A new competition is aimed at solving the biggest challenges facing Lake Erie.Erie Hack launched last week, a competition bringing together coders,...
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Does Public Outreach Reduce Impact?
When most people travel to a new city or town they look up and notice all the buildings, architecture, signage, and other...
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Out In the Real World
Managing a project as large as the Rhinelander Downtown Streetscape Project can be a daunting task for any engineering firm, and it’s...
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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...
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News Briefs: Flint’s Water Quality on the Rise
The Virginia Tech researchers who exposed Flint, Michigan’s lead problem say the city’s water quality is improving. Of the 162 homes tested...
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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...
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Texas Water Utility Joins Fight Against Zika Virus
Mosquito control is nothing new to many cities, especially across the South, but the threat of the Zika virus is raising the...
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California Collections Systems Recognized
The California Water Environment Association recently announced winners of its annual awards program. The awards program acknowledges outstanding achievement in more than 20 categories...


















