Water utilities, harried by aging infrastructure and a historic lack of federal infrastructure investment, may see climate change – and the needed infrastructure hardening for water resiliency – as “tomorrow’s crisis,” or something that can be addressed once what to...
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $15 billion for lead pipe replacements, $3 billion of which will be distributed to states, Tribes, and Territories in 2022, with a priority on underserved communities. This panel discussion with industry and municipal leaders...
Water utilities are struggling with water loss, aging water infrastructure and rising maintenance costs across the country. Bill Eller, Senior Vice President of Business Development at HomeServe, recently interviewed Carolyn Berndt, National League of Cities...
Kelly B. of Gary, Indiana, built her business by making smart choices, and when she received a call from a tenant about a slow drain, she knew that enrolling her rental properties in HomeServe repair plans was another smart decision. The clay sewer pipe between her...
When Eugene S. of North Little Rock, Arkansas, got a letter from the city in 2019, he didn't immediately expect anything out of the ordinary. That is until he opened it and saw that they were advising him to check for a leak in his water line based on a few elevated...
Social media implications, at the recent Illinois Rural Water Conference, was listed as one of the many challenges utilities currently face and will continue to face over the next 10 years. An MIT study concluded that falsehoods are 70% more likely to be shared with...
You turn on the tap and water comes out. It seems simple, but it isn’t for millions of homes across the country that have lead water service lines and lead plumbing. Lead is a neurotoxin that is especially dangerous to babies and small children, and children in...
The lead water service lines in this country need to be replaced, but replacement programs need to keep low-income homeowners in mind in the planning stages. There are nine million homes in America that get their water through lead water service lines, and lead water...
Bad debt and mounting maintenance costs: Just call them the Scylla and Charybdis of public water utilities. Much of the investment into the water systems across the nation are nearly half a century in the past and the maintenance bill has come due. The American...
We don’t know how many lead service lines remain in service, and estimates vary by the millions. The American Water Works Association estimated that there are more than 6 million lead service lines across the country, but other sources put the number closer to 9...
In addition to public infrastructure challenges, water systems are dedicating resources to support customers with myriad private infrastructure issues. An average household in the U.S. uses about 300 gallons of water every day, 12% of which is lost to water leaks from...
“Among residential customers, water leaks in their home used to be a real problem for us,” Cam, who has been GM at Kingsbury General Improvement District of Stateline, Nevada (KGID) since 2008 explained. “It wasn’t so much the financial cost to us because of the way...
While it’s intuitive to link “global warming” with hotter and longer heatwaves, longer droughts, more wildfires, and heavier rain, the link is less obvious when it comes to an increase in extreme cold events across North America, particularly in areas that have not...
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