by swefc | Jun 11, 2025 | Water Regulations, Utilities, Environment, Wastewater Treatment, Water Legislation, Water Quality, Water Contamination
New Mexico Senate Bill 21/22 was signed into law on April 8, 2025, bringing together the Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (PDES) Act and Water Quality Act amendments in a single piece of legislation to ensure water quality protections and water resources are...
by swefc | May 19, 2025 | Operator, Water Contamination, Water Regulations, Utilities, Tool, Public Relations
For small water systems, maintaining water quality is critical to ensuring safe and reliable drinking water for communities and customers. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by creating and implementing a flushing program. A well-designed flushing...
by swefc | Feb 6, 2020 | Water Contamination, Water Regulations, Environment
What About Recycling? Humans have been recycling in one form or another for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. For most of history, new materials have been expensive and difficult to obtain, so people used and reused whatever they had. This has been particularly...
by swefc | Jan 22, 2020 | Water Contamination, Environment
The World’s Largest Dump. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between San Francisco and Hawaii, is an area roughly 4 times the size of California that contains approximately 1.8 trillion pieces of trash weighing 80,000 metric tons. This area is known as the Great...
by swefc | Aug 9, 2019 | Utilities, Water Contamination
Written by: Sandi Blanton Photo by Catherine Sheila from Pexels Recent news reports have called our attention to unacceptable levels of arsenic in bottled water sold in popular markets, and to PFAS contamination in bottled water sold in New England....
by swefc | Apr 1, 2019 | EPA, Water Contamination, Water Regulations
Written by Hayley Hajic Chemicals appear on and in many everyday items such as rugs, detergent, paper cups and shampoo. Additionally, with the wide spread use of fertilizers and insecticides, water systems are constantly fighting to prevent or reduce chemical...
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