Earlier this year, the Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington Ground Water Associations presented the Pacific Northwest Expo, a biennial event that features the latest products, technologies and services for the ground water industry.
Some 5,000 homeowners in 15 Santa Clarita Valley housing developments will benefit from a $41 - million settlement approved by a state court to be paid primarily by builders, plumbers and water softening companies who installed defective foreign-made galvanized steel water pipes.
A proposed deal would allow the Regional Water Infrastructure Authority to access low-interest bonding for a planned $400-million pipeline to carry raw water from the Pueblo Reservoir to Colorado Springs.
The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging the Bush administration's suspension of the new arsenic-in-tap-water standard.
In an effort to stretch California's use of the Colorado River, the Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) reports that its board of directors recently approved principles for a 35-year water deal that would pay farmers in the Palo Verde Valley to annually set aside a portion of their land and rotate their crops.
Member agencies of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR) recently announced the release of 56 case study reports describing the cost and performance of remediation at hazardous waste sites.
A group of engineers and scientists from BHC Co., the major utility subsidiary of Aquarion Co. that serves 29 communities in Connecticut, partnered with University of Massachusetts educators to complete research that verifies that dissolved air flotation (DAF), a water clarification technology, protects drinking water from possible disease-causing microorganisms more effectively than more widely-used sedimentation, reports Water Tech Online.
Carrie Collins, president/CEO of DRAGIN Drilling, Wareham, Mass., has been honored as a regional finalist in the Original Services/Products category of the Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards 2001.
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