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Evanston Water Utility Open House
Evanston Water Utility Open House The City of Evanston is celebrating 100 years of safe reliable filtered water! Remarks by Mayor Elizabeth B. Tisdahl at 9:30 a.m. Public tours 10:00 a.m. –11:00 a.m. Please RSVP to ycapriccioso@cityofevanston.org or (847) 448-8032.
Webinar: How to Protect Your Drinking Water From Harmful Algal Blooms
How to Protect Your Drinking Water From Harmful Algal Blooms On July 16, 2014, EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds will host a webcast focused on the impact of algal toxins to drinking water, entitled “How To Protect Your … Continue reading
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Climate Ready Water Utilities: Financing Adaptation Webinar
Join EPA’s CRWU initiative for a webinar to learn more about the tools and resources available for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater (water sector) utilities in fulfilling their public health and environmental missions. This webinar series, beginning in the Fall … Continue reading
Climate Ready Water Utilities Webinar: Financing Adaptation
Join EPA’s CRWU initiative for a webinar to learn more about the tools and resources available for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater (water sector) utilities in fulfilling their public health and environmental missions. This webinar series is being presented in … Continue reading
Financing for the future: How water utilities can tackle capital costs
By Kaitlyn McClain The Columbia Water Center, a water management think-tank at Columbia University in New York, recently released a white paper that analyzed factors influencing water utility operating expenses, debt, rate-setting and financial stability. One of the key findings … Continue reading
How can water utilities save water and save money?
By Rachel Carnahan This is the question of the hour in water conservation. Less water used means less water sold and often means less revenue collected; less revenue collected can mean less money for the operation and maintenance of the … Continue reading
Supreme Court rules on water resource fights
By Marcella Bondie, LEED AP Recently, a number of court cases about water resources have made the news. Oklahoma and Texas battled over a river; two Tribal Nations made territorial claims to water rights; and a Florida landowner chafed … Continue reading
Water, Water Everywhere? DuPage Water Commission leads efforts to better manage Lake Michigan water
By Marcella Bondie, LEED AP Standing on Lake Michigan’s beaches, it’s easy to think that we—those of us lucky enough to live within piping distance of a Great Lake—have an endless supply of water. However, as I discovered on May … Continue reading
Federal bills propose innovative financing tools for water infrastructure
By Shannon Madden As the April 18 storm very potently illustrated, water infrastructure across much of northeastern Illinois needs critical attention. And as regions across the nation face challenges associated with decades-old water and sewer systems and limited federal funding … Continue reading
