Regulations and Legislation Features, Insights, & Analysis
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Just Like Social Causes, Environmentalism Is About Putting People First
6/19/2017
The 85th Texas Regular Legislative Session has drawn to a close. Now that we've had some time to digest what went down (and get some sleep), we can reflect. There is no doubt: This was a very hard Session. Emotions were high and lives were at stake.
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'Buy American' Enforcement: Plugging Leaks
6/7/2017
EPA doles $2 billion a year in water grants that are supposed to go to American-made products — but don’t, necessarily. The way EPA leaks funds to foreign firms is like watching lead leach in Flint — it’s absurd and it just keeps flowing. The loopholes to close are explained here. (The Chinese and the multinationals won’t like this.)
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NSF/ANSI Standard 61: Certification vs. Compliance
5/18/2017
Brentwood is committed to delivering high-quality products and services to our customers and the water industry. For this reason, we have invested, and continue to invest, in ensuring our products are certified to the NSF/ANSI Standard 61 for water treatment and distribution applications.
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Boston Harbor Overhaul: A Water Cleanup Success Story
5/15/2017
Boston Harbor used to be an icon of water pollution in the U.S. But a massive cleanup effort — one of the biggest restoration feats in the nation’s history — has revived the harbor in the last three decades.
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Value-Based Procurement: Steps In The Right Direction
5/10/2017
As a means of encouraging the growth of new technologies and improving operating costs, water and wastewater equipment manufacturers have long advocated for changing the mindset of equipment procurement from low-bid to lowest life-cycle cost evaluation.This have proven to be a very daunting task.
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Will The Nation's Water Infrastructure Needs Be Overlooked Again?
4/28/2017
Industry experts and government officials fear that when President Donald Trump’s proposed $1 trillion infrastructure plan is finally “laid out,” water infrastructure projects could largely be “left out.”
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Rounding Up The Water, Clean Energy, And Climate Bills In The 85th Texas Legislative Session
4/18/2017
We’re entering the home stretch of the 85th Session of the Texas Legislature.
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A Guide For Effective Utility Management
3/20/2017
Updates to a seminal document for running water and wastewater utilities as efficiently as possible call for review by those facing new obstacles.
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Utility Safety Culture: A Hidden Key To Employee Retention
3/20/2017
Sound safety policy does more than keep your workforce free from harm. It keeps them around.
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Let's Put The 'W' In Infrastructure
3/14/2017
We need to make water infrastructure a clear priority in the new administration’s infrastructure investment plans. Let’s make sure there’s a “W” in any new infrastructure program.