Entries Tagged Texas

How many wastewater utilities can handle 51 inches of rain in 72 hours? Probably none. But that’s what challenged the Houston Wastewater Operations...

Austin, Texas, is blessed — and sometimes cursed — by the water that runs through it, under it and, unfortunately,...

Amid the pastoral landscape of the Blue Lake Estates Community, a group of cautiously optimistic operators, officials, and suppliers gathered around the...

Emergency personnel in Houston, Texas, recently rescued a miniature horse that had fallen into a storm drain in the southwestern part of...

Entry 339638A group of plumbers recently spent 10 hours rescuing a kitten from a sewer pipe at a condo in Chicago. Some...

Entry 339750Crews in King County, Washington, finished work this spring on a pipe-bursting project to repair an $11 million pipeline and holding...

A unique project out of Houston, Texas, is encouraging citizens to take an active role in saving tax dollars by preventing future...

Five months after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas’ Gulf Coast, the city of Houston is still assessing the storm’s full impact on water...

As is typically the drill when the latter part of December arrives and a new year approaches, it’s time for some reflection....

El Paso (Texas) Water’s winning formula for water sufficiency goes something like this: Blend one part leadership and one part education. Add...

The latest fatberg making headlines is in Baltimore, Maryland.A nearly 1.2 million gallon dry-weather SSO occurred last month because of the massive...

As the events of this hurricane season have shown us, one of the prime factors for restoring civil order is the supply...

Crew members from the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) received a call at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, a matter of hours...

The water system in the small bayside community of Holiday Beach, Texas, is back on, a development Neil Adams, general manager of...