Drinking Water News
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Water Week 2024 To Focus On Critical Legislative, Regulatory Challenges Facing The Water Sector
4/8/2024
Over 350 water sector professionals and policy experts, representing associations and public water sector utilities from across the country, will take part in Congressional office visits this week as part of the annual “Water Week” Fly-In on Capitol Hill.
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Gross Dam Ready To Go Up
4/8/2024
The top of Gross Dam in Boulder County is bustling this spring as workers build the specialized structures needed to raise the dam. The project will nearly triple the storage capacity of the Gross Reservoir and add balance and resiliency to Denver Water’s collection system.
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Ocean Floor A 'Reservoir' For Plastic Pollution, World-First Study Finds
4/5/2024
New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.
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Veolia Advances PFAS Mitigation In Drinking Water With More Than 30 Treatment Projects Launched In The U.S.
4/4/2024
Veolia has reached a new milestone in its treatment of PFAS chemicals in America’s drinking water, with more than 30 sites now reporting no detectable levels of regulated PFAS chemicals. The advanced effort includes new treatment installed at 17 drinking water wells in the state of New York, with construction underway on additional projects in four states as Veolia continues to address PFAS contamination in drinking water supplies across the country.
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DOI Announces $19M For Innovative Solar Panel Installation Over Canals
4/4/2024
The Department of the Interior today announced a $19M investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to install solar panels over irrigation canals in California, Oregon and Utah, simultaneously decreasing evaporation of critical water supplies and advancing clean energy goals.
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Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes To Atmospheric Water Cycle
4/4/2024
Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture.
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Hitchhikers On Plastic Particles
4/4/2024
We know that microplastics can affect organisms in the oceans, for example various forms of plankton-eating animals.
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Could Microbes Be The Answer To Detoxifying Scottish Water Sources?
4/3/2024
Scottish researchers are discovering new ways of combatting environmental damage caused by acid mine drainage in Scotland by studying bacteria which can degrade the dangerous waste products.
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Cla-Val Presents The City Of Walla Walla, WA With The Smart City Award
4/2/2024
The Cla-Val Company has presented the City of Walla Walla with the Smart City Award in recognition of the City’s rapid adoption of new technology, bringing all their valves online with a novel approach to streaming valve data into SCADA via their AMI solution.
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SUNY ESF Leads Groundbreaking Research In Groundwater’s Role In Ecosystem Sustainability
4/2/2024
Until now, groundwater – a critical water resource around the globe, especially in dry regions – has been largely unstudied in its importance and role in sustaining ecosystems.