November 1, 1836: Birth of Hiram Francis Mills. “Born in Bangor, Maine, in the year 1836 and receiving his early schooling there, the young Hiram Mills moved on to the newly-established Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute to be graduated before he was twenty. When he was in his middle thirties he was appointed Chief Engineer of the […]
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September 14, 1986: New York Times headline–When the Bill for the Marvels Falls Due. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. By Marc Reisner. It’s unlikely that most taxpayers will read Cadillac Desert, but they should. It’s a revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report on where billions of their dollars have gone […]
EPA has just released an updated online version of its Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). CREAT is designed for the use of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater …
Source: New Release – Updated Online Version of EPA’s CREAT Tool for Water Utility Climate Resilience
EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) has just published its peer review of the June 2015 “Draft Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources…
Source: SAB Completes Peer Review for EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study
August 6, 1996: The 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act became law. “In 1996, Congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to emphasize sound science and risk-based standard setting, small water supply system flexibility and technical assistance, community-empowered source water assessment and protection, public right-to-know, and water system infrastructure assistance through a multi-billion-dollar […]
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August 2, 1911: Municipal Journal article. Water Waste in Washington, DC. “The matter of detecting and closing underground leaks in the distribution system is one that the water department of Washington has been working on systematically and rather extensively since 1906. At that time the rapid increase in both mean consumption and per capita rates […]
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