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As the saying goes, nothing in the world is certain except death and taxes. Groundwater industry professionals, though, could add one more item to the list.
Make that friction loss.
Every detail matters in today’s work environment.
Take a clean job site for example. It seems straightforward, but housekeeping affects much more than just slips, trips, and falls.
Technological advances in society have made everything seem easier to accomplish with the push of a button.
Variable frequency drives (VFDs) are no different. Advancements have been made over the years, but the principle behind them is still the same.
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announces the availability of $993,000 in grant funds to be competitively awarded for the Household Water Well System (HWWS) Grant Program for fiscal year 2012 (FY 2012). RUS will make grants to qualified private non-profit organizations to establish lending programs for homeowners to borrow up to $11,000 to construct or [...]
More than 80% of countries have reformed their water laws in the past 20 years as a response to growing pressures on water resources from expanding populations, urbanization, and climate change. In many cases, such water reforms have produced significant impacts on development, including improvements to drinking water access, human health, and water efficiency in [...]
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth. Inorganic arsenic, which affects the drinking water of millions of people worldwide, has been previously shown to be a human carcinogen. A growing body of evidence suggests that [...]
Effective people management is critical for small businesses. Follow these tips to success.
SJE-Rhombus, a provider of quality control solutions for water and wastewater applications, introduces a new, easy-to-use data logging control panel. The EZ Series In-Site CL control panel is designed to quickly connect to a laptop computer for system programming, monitoring, and reporting. The control panel is designed to control one or two 120/208/240V single phase [...]
The reliable Solinst Model 601 Standpipe Piezometer is designed for placement within a drilled hole to provide a filtered inlet point. The pointed PVC tip is also suitable for pushing into loose sands at the base of a borehole, a stream, or into loose tailings pond sediments. The Model 601 is excellent for metals sampling [...]
Flomatic Corp. introduces a new, special patent-pending submersible pump check valve for use with variable frequency drive control submersible pumps. Standard check valves will “chatter” and be noisy when a VFD goes to low flow, causing premature wear and eventual failure. The unique Model 80DI VFD valve is designed to minimize flow losses and hydraulic [...]
NGWA is hosting a pair of conferences focusing on groundwater issues specific to certain regions of the United States in 2012. The NGWA Focus Conference on Midwestern Groundwater Issues, June 26-27 in Columbus, Ohio, will concentrate on a host of topics: major seasonal flooding events impacting groundwater and wells issues related to oil and shale [...]
Seventy-three groundwater professionals from 27 states gathered for the NGWA Washington Fly-in, February 27-28 in Washington, D.C. Their mission was to educate policymakers about groundwater’s role in maintaining the public health, environmental, and economic well-being of the nation. Federal policymakers were asked to take positive steps beneficial to the resource and professionals’ businesses. In particular, [...]
NGWA recently shipped hundreds of journals to four groups in developing countries. After consolidating items in its Ground Water Information Center at its headquarters this winter, NGWA reached out to its Developing Nations Interest Group to see if there was interest in hundreds of extra copies of Water Well Journal, Ground Water, and Ground Water [...]
American Trucking Associations’ leaders expressed serious concern over the recent decision by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to continue to hold the trucking industry responsible in its CSA program for every truck-involved crash, including those which the truck driver could not have prevented. ATA, and other industry groups, had requested—and FMCSA had agreed to [...]
A dedication ceremony was held on March 20 at Ball State University to recognize completion of phase one of its geothermal project, which is expected to save the school $2 million annually and has led to an estimated 2300 jobs. The new heating and cooling system will cut Ball State’s 85,000 tons of carbon dioxide [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be incorporating the changes brought by the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act within its overall lead and copper rulemaking. The expected timeframe for a notice of proposed rulemaking is now October 2012, with final action in December 2013. The notice for the proposed rulemaking was previously slated [...]
