A Pennsylvania man employed by a major pharmaceutical laboratory allegedly stolen poisonous chemicals and dumped them into a public stormwater inlet after he learned he was under investigation.
In New Orleans, the storm drains appear to be decked out for a party — that’s because they are clogged with Mardi Gras beads.
Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company, recently announced that it has acquired EmNet, LLC, a rapidly growing provider of smart solutions that enable municipalities to manage the urban water cycle and wastewater and stormwater systems.
High profile public health crises such as the Flint Lead crisis, and the continued degradation of environmental resources due to industrial activity, have highlighted the damage that can be done through poor regulation of water quality.
Did a California water district have a role in this month’s Montecito mudslides that took the lives of at least 21 people?
Massachusetts faces a deep problem with raw sewage.
On Monday, 22 January, Irish Water will commence work to upgrade the Tinure Wastewater Treatment Plant in Co. Louth. The €260,000 investment includes the construction of a new storm water holding tank and pumping station and the installation of new inlet screening at the wastewater treatment plant.
The Center for Watershed Protection announced recently it has developed a groundbreaking new method to account for the capacity of trees planted in urban areas to reduce runoff pollution. The Center has used that model to develop two tree planting credits — a pollutant load reduction credit and a stormwater performance-based credit.
For the first time, water came gushing into the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's (MWRD's) McCook Reservoir Thursday, demonstrating a fully functioning system designed to prevent polluted water from entering local waterways and mitigate area flooding.
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