Entries Tagged Water Usage

Columbia Water’s unparalleled metering project benefits both utility and customers.

Educating your customers about the value of your water resources is the key to your future.

It’s been a year since the emergency drought order was lifted following the state’s rough five-year stretch. But now some are concerned that water use is back to pre-drought levels.

British firm Advizzo joins water technology incubator Pipeline H20 to bring its software to the U.S.

A combination of severe drought and poor water supply management has Cape Town, South Africa, mere months away from temporarily turning off residents’ taps

In this week’s news briefs, in the ongoing effort to conserve treated water, a California city finds a way to significantly limit how much water is lost to storm sewers during hydrant flushing, and a Florida city nears the end of a 12-year consent order to reduce overflows

Florida Atlantic University researchers looked at what happens when utilities move beyond only watering restrictions and give customers a little more information about their water use

In this week’s news briefs, the Narragansett Bay Commission in Rhode Island is putting off completion of a multi-phase CSO project for at least three years to keep rates down, and Florida’s drought has Lake Okeechobee at its lowest level in six years

In this week’s news briefs, a National Science Foundation study looks further at how evapotranspiration plays into the water use picture in California, and Pennsylvania American Water takes steps to eliminate lead service lines for its customers

In this week’s news briefs, officials are planning to release 9 million acre-feet of water from Lake Powell into the Colorado River, and a drought in South Florida could bring mandatory restrictions for water customers

In this week’s news briefs, the three-year emergency drought order is over in California but some water-use restrictions remain, and a Tennessee worker suffers second-degree burns in a sewer lining accident

Daily water use ranged from 16 gallons a day for a family of five in Africa, to 264 gallons for the photographer’s own family in New York City.

In this week’s news briefs, the owner of a Boston company has been criminally charged stemming from an October work site incident that killed two workers, and Baltimore officials hope to boost water conservation efforts with a new online portal.