By John Yap, Aquatic Informatics Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) has been providing water and electricity to the city of Riverside, California, since 1895. As an...

In part 1 of this article, we noted that, in residential settings, drains that can act as a physical barrier to water provide an...

No matter the size of your operation, you need to keep pumping stations running around the clock to push water or wastewater where it...

Innovation in the U.S. water industry is incremental and fragmented. In the second half of this policy brief, Ajami, Thompson, and Victor propose increasing...

For the operators cleaning municipal sewer, storm and sanitary lines, dreaded “blown toilets” can quickly become a community clean-up and public relations nightmare.  “A ‘blown...

By Reinaldo Pinto, Applied Flow Technology One of the toughest aspects of hydraulic system design is accepting that a system cannot always operate at steady...

Corrosion control of carbon steel heat exchange components is becoming increasingly more important as energy costs rise and the demand for environmentally friendly chemicals...

When investing in new equipment, what would you consider to be a reasonable payback?  Five years? Three years? At the Kishwaukee Water Reclamation District (KWRD)...

By Del Williams Contractors cleaning municipal sewer, storm, and sanitary lines face a host of challenges on the job. This can range from having to...

An act that provided incentives, penalties, as well as funding for communities to clean their water, the Clean Water Act (CWA) was passed in...