WASHINGTON -- The National Rural Water Association, the nation's largest water utility association with more than 31,000 members, today formerly announced a partnership with the United States Department of Labor (DOL) to launch a nation-wide apprenticeship program. The WaterPro Apprenticeship Program, tailored to water and wastewater system operations specialists, is now a nationally-recognized standard with the DOL.
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The University of Idaho built a mobile water treatment platform to demonstrate a scalable, carbon-neutral technology.
Advanced instrumentation allows municipalities to solve aging infrastructure issues and open a potential new revenue source.
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) proudly announces 11 distinguished members as the 2017 WEF Fellows recipients. This prestigious designation recognizes members’ achievements, stature and contributions in the water profession.
If you live in the developed world, safe water is usually just a faucet-turn away. And yet, global warming, drought conditions and population growth in coming decades could change that, ushering in an era of uncertain access to water.
A combined approach to maximize wet weather treatment is the topic of the open access article in the August 2017 edition of Water Environment Research (WER). “In their paper on wet-weather clarifier performance, Daigger et al. introduce a strategy to increase capacity by mitigating the effect of increased solids and hydraulic loading using a step-feed flow regime,” said Tim Ellis, WER editor-in-chief.
These applications highlight how ozone is a flexible treatment method that provides plant operators with an efficient and reliable disinfection solution.
5 facts about how a lack of access to clean water is affecting the world
DENVER (March 22, 2017)—Closing the water infrastructure gap in the U.S. would create 1.3 million jobs and spur total economic activity of $220 billion annually, according to an economic impact analysis commissioned by the Value of Water Campaign (VOW).
The report titled “The Economic Benefits of Investing in Water Infrastructure” was released on World Water Day at a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The United Nations General Assembly in 1993 designated March 22nd as World Water Day as part of an international campaign that emphasizes the importance of freshwater and managing Earth’s most precious resource.