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Imagine a world where water is viewed, managed and valued as one resource. A world where the silo thinking that has kept clean water, drinking water, stormwater and water reuse interests segregated erodes away – and a movement toward meeting future challenges on a watershed basis, with a focus on sustainability and green cities emerges [...]

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WEBINAR: Hydraulic Fracturing: Facts, Frictions, and Trends

WEBINAR: Hydraulic Fracturing: Facts, Frictions, and Trends

In the wake of recent earthquakes in unexpected, remote areas such as Ohio, the already controversial topic of “fracking” is h[Continue Reading]

U.S. Water Prize Winners to be Announced – Virtual H2O

U.S. Water Prize Winners to be Announced - Virtual H2O

The Clean Water America Alliance will announce the 2012 U.S. Water Prize winners on February 21, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST. T[Continue Reading]

A New Path for Clean Water: Magnetic Soap?

A New Path for Clean Water: Magnetic Soap?

A team of international scientists at Bristol University has created the world’s first magnetic soap by adding iron atoms to the[Continue Reading]

 

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    Full Faith & Public Credit

    With all the debate over money, profit, and the future, here’s a reminder not to lose sight of today’s public servants behind the scenes and bar screens at our nation’s water and wastewater systems: support them and their missions, locally and nationally, but don’t stop seeking new efficiencies and public-private partnerships that fit local needs [...]

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    The Public Rust Doctrine

    In celebration of a new year, here’s a new phrase for a long-standing (and I hope eventually crumbling) water policy syndrome: “the Public Rust Doctrine”. What It Is and Isn’t I define the PRD as “principles and teachings that water and wastewater infrastructure systems should only be owned, operated and maintained by public entities supplied [...]

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    A Call to Farms

    As we celebrate the bounty of the season, pitchforks and storm clouds are gathering throughout the country and the nation’s capital over agriculture and water policy and the potential collisions between the two. On the water quantity side, some of the fresh wrangling is over subsidies that distort the real cost of water, ground water [...]

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    Soft and Salty

    The topic is water softeners, not baked pretzels, although both share some similarities. Hard water isn’t a new challenge. It’s as old as dirt and rocks. Some areas of the country, particularly the arid Southwest, have been confronting the problem for many years given the realities of the land and climate. Hard water, loaded with [...]

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    Gargoyles and Gorillas

    Not to mix religion and politics, but the fantastic fixtures on cathedrals and other buildings are speaking a lot to me these days (so far only figuratively), as green infrastructure cheerleaders and EPA critics gear up for a politically-bruising battle over stormwater regulations. We should all look up from time to time in our search for progress and common ground–from the curb and the fence line to the gutters and rooftops, to the forest canopies and landscapes beyond the big box.

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    Blue Waves of Cooperation

    What’s the proper balance of power between federal and state water agencies? It seems to ebb and flow over time. The Clean Water America Alliance hasn’t taken a position on recent House-passed legislation amending the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), but here’s my personal take on the controversy, as well as suggestions for meaningful progress [...]

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    Muddy Waters of the United States

    Seekers of regulatory certainty are still singing the blues after the Supreme Court muddied the waters of jurisdiction under the federal Clean Water Act in 2001 and 2006 but don’t blame the Supremes and don’t expect a harmonious solution any time soon. Sometimes we forget but wetlands are at the heart of our country’s natural [...]

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    Drill, Maybe, Drill!

    The friction over “fracking” (specifically hydraulic fracturing for natural gas) underscores the growing need for energy security and environmental sustainability to be in balance rather than in battle and to keep water in mind through it all. Most agree natural gas has a bright future as a “bridge” fuel to cleaner, renewable energy. It makes [...]

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    Green Chips and Blue Jeans

    Water is embedded in just about every product and practice on the blue planet. Professor John Anthony Allan, winner of the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize, and pioneer in “virtual water,” boosted global efforts to see, or at least appreciate, the invisible water running through every day goods and services–from hamburgers to power lines. Two of [...]

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    Whirled Water Day

    March 22 marks another World Water Day, the special day designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992 as a time to underscore the value and vulnerability of clean and safe water locally and globally. The heart-wrenching disaster in Japan is a painful reminder of the power of water to flatten neighborhoods. The collapse [...]

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