Consolidated Rural Water District

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…

See what researchers found when they tested a bottle of Fiji Water against a glass of tap water.

Should City Planners Worry About Water Supply?

It’s a big question being tackled by land use planners and water providers in Colorado, where the traditional disconnect between water realities and land use decisions precludes a sustainable balance between water supply and urban growth.

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.

The Water Tap: How do heatwaves affect our water supply?

When temperatures spike in the desert, everyone needs more water and humans must compete with plants and even the air to get it.

How to Treat Contamination in Your Drinking Water Supply

Safeguard your health and home with expert tips on treating common drinking water problems.

Wind and solar can save the planet — can they save our water supply, too?

In California, the rapid growth of solar and wind could help replenish depleted aquifers.

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.

Earth’s water supply is dwindling as ‘drought-like conditions become the new normal’

Climate change is producing more rain, but the world’s water supply is shrinking – and now scientists know why. Scientists have warned that global warming is drying out the planet’s soi…

Are There Drugs in Our Water Supply?

A recent study found that numerous pharmaceutical drugs have contaminated the water supplies of millions of Americans. How safe is our drinking water?

How to Address PFAS in Your Water Supply

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of widely used man-made chemicals often referred to as “forever chemicals,” due to how slowly they break down over time. PFAS have been widely used in industrial and consumer products since the 1940s and have been since found in the air, soil, and water supply.

3 Steps to Save the World’s Water Supply

The challenge is massive, but I firmly believe the global community can rise up to meet it. #NatureIsSpeaking

Design-Build Project Secures Clean Affordable Water Supply

An Illinois community is applying a progressive design-build approach to bring its water system online fast, supporting reliable water services at a stable rate.

Know how: Shore Water Supply Flooding Precautions

Dock water hoses can be seen connected to lots of boats in marinas, and my 45ft schooner, Britannia, had the system built-in from the original. A water hose

Is Our Water Supply Disrupting the Human Endocrine System?

Emerging contaminants in our water system, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones, perfluorinated alkyls and volatile organics, may pose a threat to both the environment and human health.