There can be a disconnect between utilities and customers when water conservation is pushed for, yet rates continue to rise. A new...
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Study Finds Significant Water Conservation Through Simple Method
Enforcing lawn-watering restrictions is a common conservation practice in many parts of the country. But how effective is it in truly producing...
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News Briefs: New Study Examines Water Loss Sources in California
A new study sheds some light on water conservation in California as the state continues to recover from its multi-year drought.The study,...
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News Briefs: Utilities Push for WaterSense Program to be Saved from Cuts
Utilities across the country have joined together in support of the EPA’s WaterSense program, asking that it not be part of the...
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Clean Sewers With Half the Water
In drought-stricken cities, water conservation means jetting smarter. With numerous states facing their driest spells in history, many are being forced to...
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News Briefs: Contractor Indicted for Fatal Trench Collapse
A Boston contractor is facing criminal charges in connection with a work site incident that killed two of its employees last October.According...
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Storms Bring Drought Relief to California
California’s drought isn’t fully in the past, but the state is beginning to bounce back. According to recent research from the University...
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News Briefs: Michigan Community Replaces Last Lead Service Line
While Flint continues to work to bounce back from its drinking water crisis, another Michigan community is celebrating the replacement of its...
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News Briefs: Florida Utility Plans Big Infrastructure Investment to Improve Hurricane Preparedness
In the wake of the strain Hurricane Matthew put on collections systems on Florida’s east coast in late September and early October,...
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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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Unmetered Californians Impact Attempts to Restrict Water Use
Following especially dire drought conditions because of the lack of snowmelt, the state of California currently has water restriction mandates in place....
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Celebrating 10 Years of WaterSense
Did you know that two-thirds of the continental U.S. has experienced drought in the last few years? It has left many utilities...
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Federal Funds Aimed at Protecting the Potomac Watershed
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded two grants totaling $2.7 million to the Water Environment and Reuse Foundation of Alexandria, Virginia, for water research...
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EPA Announces Funding for Water Reuse and Conservation Research
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $3.3 million in funding to five institutions to research human and ecological health impacts associated with water reuse...




















