Newsletter | April 30, 2026

04.30.26 -- What Is The Future Of Source Water Protection?; EPA Launches New Lead Website

IN THIS ISSUE:

How Three Overlapping Trends Are Shaping Public Water

How Preventative Maintenance Agreements Can Help Avoid Catastrophic Costs

How To Right-Size Your Lift Station

How To Buy Right, Not Cheap

Navigating The Flow: Mastering TDH Calculations

Is The Water Sector Ready For AI?

Featured Profiles In Oil & Gas And Refinery Wastewater Success

8 Ways MBR Assists Your Utility In Emergency Response

Preparing Your Valves For Winter With Proactive Maintenance

EPA Launches New Lead Website In Renewed Focus To Reduce Lead Exposures

Choosing Your Service Line Verification Method

What Is The Future Of Source Water Protection?

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In this Water Online Virtual Event, Kevin Westerling will be joined by industry experts Will Jernigan of Cavanaugh and Jennifer Steffens of Carollo Engineers for a closer look at how water loss is being addressed today through evolving standards, data-driven decision-making, and advanced digital technologies. Tune in to stay ahead of emerging expectations and position your utility for measurable, defensible water loss reduction — and bring your questions for the audience Q&A.

FEATURED ARTICLES

How Preventative Maintenance Agreements Can Help Avoid Catastrophic Costs

Learn how preventative maintenance agreements (PMAs) reduce risk, extend equipment life, and save money for wastewater utilities by minimizing failures, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing operational predictability.

How To Buy Right, Not Cheap

While there may be any number of pumps that will do the job, choosing the best fit will give you the best return on your investment. The following tips will help you make the right choices.

Converging Challenges, Unified Solutions: How Three Overlapping Trends Are Shaping Public Water

With the right help, coping with workforce upheaval, the digital transition, and asset management can be an opportunity.

How To Right-Size Your Lift Station Without The 6-Month Wait

In Part 3 of the Get Pumped Up series, the spotlight is on speed: how utilities can identify and solve lift station inefficiencies without waiting six months for a redesign study.

Navigating The Flow: Mastering TDH Calculations For Your Rental Pump Needs

Whether you’re tackling temporary dewatering, transferring essential fluids, or managing complex waste and wastewater operations, finding the right rental pump is crucial. But beyond choosing the appropriate horsepower or flow rate, understanding total dynamic head (TDH) is key to ensuring your pumping project runs smoothly and efficiently.

Is The Water Sector Ready For AI?

Despite AI's potential to transform the water sector, fewer than half of organizations are fully ready for adoption. The biggest challenges are procedural and cultural, like fear of change and workforce readiness. Focus on these internal barriers to gain measurable efficiency and sustainability benefits.

Featured Profiles In Oil & Gas And Refinery Wastewater Success

Explore stories of real success with wastewater treatment at oil/gas refineries as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and chemical plants.

8 Ways MBR Assists Your Utility In Emergency Response

Whether it’s a hurricane, flood, fire, or extended power outage, the systems that sustain communities are often the first to be tested. And among all treatment technologies available, membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have proven uniquely resilient, helping utilities recover faster, maintain compliance longer, and protect the environment when stress is highest.

Preparing Your Valves For Winter With Proactive Maintenance

As the cold weather sets in, water distribution and wastewater systems face increased stress, making it important to ensure critical components like valves are in peak condition.

Choosing Your Service Line Verification Method

Optimize service line inventories by utilizing a tiered verification approach. This strategy balances low-cost customer engagement and predictive modeling with targeted excavations to ensure regulatory compliance, reduce operational expenses, and minimize community disruption.

INDUSTRY NEWS

EPA Launches New Lead Website In Renewed Focus To Reduce Lead Exposures

The EPA has announced the release of new public education tools about lead poisoning prevention, including a new StoryMap about Lead and Children’s Health.

New Guidance Standardizes Water Sector GHG Accounting

EPA To Invest $90 Million To Strengthen Water Infrastructure For Tribes And Rural Communities

Strengthening The Future Of The Colorado River: Grundfos Takes Co-Champion Role To Drive Investment And Action

Palintest Brings Precision Turbidity Testing To U.S. Municipal Water Market

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Addressing PFAS Contamination With Calgon Carbon Solutions

Calgon Carbon offers more than just treatment solutions to ensure compliance of PFAS regulations. Explore a holistic solution that differentiates from the rest.

Unlock Efficiency: Modernizing Water Utilities With Itron's Smart Solutions

This presentation explores how digital transformation and data analytics help water utilities overcome financial constraints, aging infrastructure, and labor shortages.

Revolutionizing Wastewater Management

In this episode of The Water Online Show: On Location, Trey Poer from Sulzer dives into the company's pivotal role in the wastewater industry and shares his insights on evolving business trends and emerging technologies.

FROM THE EDITOR

What Is The Future Of Source Water Protection?

Water utility managers and municipal leaders have long struggled amid the convergence of several threats to public water supplies. During a recent Water Online Live event, I sat with a panel of industry experts to examine the transition from reactive crisis management to a proactive, adaptive resilience framework.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMN

Heavy Rain On Snow Is Testing Aging Dams Across Michigan And Wisconsin — This Is The Future In A Warming World

For much of Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as northern Illinois, 2026 has been the wettest March and April on record. The region’s aging water infrastructure was never designed for the volume of water it is facing. That’s a troubling sign for the future, with flooding becoming more common as global temperatures rise.

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