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WSI International President Talks About Frack, Produced Water Treatment.

NGWA, ANSI Find Common Ground On Water Well Construction.

The earliest form of water wells dates back to 5000 B.C. At that time, the world population was estimated to be around 5 million people.

A drill site is much more than a location.

It’s a story as old as commerce: A manufacturer sees a promising market and jumps in.

Ask most drillers whether they’re concerned about arsenic in groundwater, and you’ll quickly discover the answer is no.

The South Atlantic Well Drillers Jubilee has a long and storied history. This year, it returns to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for the first time since 2011.

Several years ago, Franklin Electric Co. became aware that thousands of children die every day in Africa from diseases caused by drinking dirty surface water. 

Daniel Ortuño pulled a small piece of Texas history from a shelf in a building at the University of Texas at Austin. The yellowing piece of paper said that on Dec. 19, 1951, John L. Boyd began drilling a 1,350-foot-deep oil well through 17 layers of shale and limestone in Crockett County in southwest Texas.

Nearly 70 years after Ball State University installed its four coal-fired boilers, school employees have stopped shoveling, and the old system has gone cold as the university embraces renewable energy with the world’s largest district closed geothermal energy system.