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News | July 18, 2024
Cleaner Water With Electrified Membranes
Nitrate contamination in water has long presented threats to the environment and human health. Now, Yale researchers have developed an efficient and effective way to remove it.
Lea Winter, assistant professor of chemical & environmental engineering, proposes the use of electrified membranes made with carbon ...
MORE RAW SEWAGE INTO RIVERS FOR YEARS TO COME
By Christopher Flavelle
Mr. Flavelle went 10 stories beneath Washington, D.C., to learn why sewage storage tunnels cost so much to build.
Published Jan. 24, 2020Updated Jan. 28, 2020The Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise...
BOIL-WATER ADVISORY IS LIFTED IN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA
By John Yoon
July 4, 2024The authorities in Washington and Arlington, Va., on Wednesday advised all 920,000 residents to boil their drinking water after they discovered that algae blooms in the Potomac River had raised pollution levels in a reservoir.
The boil water advisory, which extended to the ...
Article | March 27, 2024
How Monitoring Improves Crisis Response
Source: Badger Meter
To protect themselves and their communities, water utilities must have a crisis response plan in place. However, a crisis response plan is only valuable if the right technologies are in place. Remote water quality monitoring is the key to mitigating the risk of contaminated source ...
Article | December 14, 2022
How Surfing Inspired Me To Create A Company That Keeps Our Oceans Clean
By Ari Goldfarb, Co-Founder and CEO of Kando
Don’t be complacent with an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality when it comes to our polluted oceans. It won’t do you any good.
The world’s oceans, with their vast expanses and endless ...
Billings, Montana's Only Source-Water Body Hits A Record Low
January 12, 2022By Peter Chawaga
The sole source of drinking water for one of Montana’s largest cities has dropped to a record low in another historic sign of ongoing drought that’s impacting much of the American West.
“The Yellowstone [River] is Billings’ one source of drinking water, and the city ...
Arizona Rep.: California's Water Plan Is 'Reckless And Unacceptable'
September 13, 2022
By Peter Chawaga
Increasing drought in the American West has forced states to try and work together to collectively conserve the dwindling source water that remains. But recent comments from one state legislator to another indicate that cooperation could be hard to ...
Arizona's $1.2B Water Plan Will Bring Stormwater, Desalination To Desert Region
July 19, 2022
By Peter Chawaga
The extent of drought in the U.S. West is forcing many water systems to put significant dollars behind innovative water management measures. Now, that includes more than $1 billion in one of the country’s most arid regions.
“Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ...
How Poland Springs Attempted To Thwart Water Protection Rules
Peter Chawaga - editor
By Peter Chawaga
A recent effort to protect source water in Maine was thwarted by a surprising opponent: lobbyists representing one of the world’s largest bottled water companies.
“When Maine lawmakers tried to rein in large-scale access to the state’s freshwater this year, the...
