DistribuTECH 2013 will take place January 29-31 in San Diego, Calif., with a conference program and exhibits covering metering and customer service, automation and control systems...
In the fall of 2001, the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) set out to build a new Plant No. 2 headworks to replace a nearly 50-year-old existing facility in an effort to...
The 112th Congress may to go down in history as the least productive since 1947, according to USA Today. As of this writing (December 6, 2012), it has passed just 204 of 10,307...
Water distribution system integrity is best evaluated using a smart water network (SWN) to provide warning against any potential breaches in sufficient time for operators to respond...
The Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority (NACA) was formed in 2002 to develop affordable regional solutions to the region’s growing wastewater and biosolids treatment needs...
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) rules that are designed to protect about 15 percent of Florida’s waterways...
Many public water systems will be required to monitor their water under the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 3). Based on size of the system, water systems could ...
Beginning on January 4, 2014, a new national law will amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require all products in contact with drinking water to have a 0.25% maximum lead content...
This is the second part of a two part column on this subject. The December 2012, Part 1, column introduced the issues of pump Cavitation, NPSH Margin and Reliability, along with...
Despite the federal budget crisis, water groups hope that Congress will enact legislation next year to facilitate the funding of large drinking and wastewater infrastructure projects...
Full cost pricing is considered to be one of the four pillars of sustainable infrastructure, along with utility management, water conservation and managing water on a watershed...