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How to Improve Your Water Pressure

If you feel like like you’re not getting enough water pressure, here are a couple suggestions for how you can try to improve it.

Why I Don’t Drink Budweiser…and Why I’m Not Alone

Budweiser has always been far more about marketing than beer. The founder of Anheuser Busch, Adolphus Busch, refused to drink his own brew, calling it “that slop” (he was German, of cou…

Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.

10 Things the United States Should Copy From Other Countries

The United States has a lot to recommend it, but there's always room for improvement. Let's look abroad for better ways of doing things and and start improving.

Data Is Improving Government Services, But at What Cost to Citizens' Privacy?

Data now informs almost everything the public sector does, and it also informs on us.

Smart Meters for Water Utilities: Greater Accuracy Yields Savings and Benefits

Smart meters offer water utilities more, better data to reduce waste, eliminate leaks, save money, and serve customers better. Here’s how.

Hampstead water utility denies it's liable for residential well problems

HAMPSTEAD -- Hampstead Area Water Company denies that its use of groundwater is unreasonable and that it’s responsible for harming private wells.

Need for new water/utility systems building questioned

A city councilor questioned whether the Water/Utility Systems Division could move into a proposed future maintenance shop instead of purchasing and constructing a new building.

Reality Check: Have water companies cut leaks by a third?

Consumers are being asked not to waste water, but how much do water companies waste through leakage?

Water Utilities Show High Aspirations Toward Reducing Energy

Water and wastewater utilities in the U.S. have high aspirations for energy reduction goals, or even moving toward energy neutral operations, but barriers are plentiful. Fortunately, approaches are being developed that can help system operators make significant progress in overcoming these obstacles.

Lessons Learned with Water Utility Breach

By Katherine Brocklehurst Industrial control systems (ICS) are the workhorses of our physical world, and they are becoming more Internet-connected, more

Increase Power Resilience at Your Water Utility

Power Resilience Guide for drinking water and wastewater utilities.

Clean and Safe Water When We Need It, America's Water Companies

Learn more about how America's water companies deliver safe, clean, and reliable water to your community when you need it.

Water Utility Roundtable: Building a Culture of Innovation

MSW serves municipal decision-makers, sewer and water directors, technicians and private water and wastewater contractors who install, inspect, maintain and rehabilitate sewer, water and stormwater infrastructures.

Could water utilities evolve the way the electric sector did?

Cheap Cybersecurity Defenses Exist, But They’re Not Reaching Water Utilities Who Need Them

An era of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure has begun. Rural water utilities have vulnerabilities and advantages.

Do you have lead service lines? Your water utility will replace them

State rules now require local utilities to replace all lead and galvanized water lines between water mains and meters