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During an unprecedented wave of retirements, leadership is a hot issue for water and wastewater utilities. To develop effective leaders to fill...

There are millions of small businesses in America, and — thankfully— there are more of them popping up all the time. In...

You finally made the leap and invested in your dream pickup truck. Your service vehicle. Your mobile office. It’s much more than...

Respirators protect workers from inhaling dangerous material that can cause acute or chronic respiratory problems. Acute conditions occur suddenly and usually involve...

No one likes being called in the middle of the night to the scene of a broken waterline. What’s even more frustrating...

Pipe, valves and pipe components make up the backbone of municipal sewer systems. Here are various types of pipe, pipe parts, components,...

Odds are that if you’re reading this at work, you’re going to be interrupted before you finish the article. As surely as...

I didn’t take over the editorial reins of this magazine with a vast background in the water and wastewater industry. I took...

In the bad old days around Plainfield, N.J., sewers leaked, moratoriums halted community development, and one particularly odorous location along the system...

Successfully jetting 2,500 to 3,500 linear feet of sewer line day-in and day-out requires focus, attention to detail and sound decision-making on...

During late winter 1981, the first annual Liquid Waste Hauler’s Equipment & Trade Show was held in Nashville, Tenn. The show was...

In the early 1970s, local lakes in Pierce County, Wash., began experiencing water-quality problems. The area faced a moratorium on building, but...

SNG (natural gas) and SLP (liquid petroleum) stationary hot-water pressure washers from Shark Pressure Washers & Jetters feature flow rates from 3.5...

There’s often more than a grain of truth behind clichés, and two of them in particular sum up why plumber Derek Olin...

A contractor cleaned clogs from a 290-foot-long gravity grease line at Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev., for a...

Ethics and values are eroding across a wide spectrum of government, organizational and corporate sectors around the world. Bribes, cheating, criminal behavior,...

It’s happened to most of us: You pull into the driveway after a long day and don’t remember the last 15 minutes...

Many contractors focus on residential work or larger municipal jobs. BlueWorks Inc, based in Clearwater, Fla., has combined aspects of both in...

Four years after establishing his company in the Northern California suburb of Rancho Cordova, Bill Heinselman was stunned when he was offered...