Water Utility News

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District will use a $5 million surplus to reline about 30 miles of sewers to eliminate basement backups, MSD's executive director announced Thursday.

American Water Works Company, Inc., the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, recently announced the company has donated $216,143 to Water For People through its company-wide 2009 fundraising campaign.

When the Environmental Protection Agency came after the leaky Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, officials in St.

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Veolia Environnement said it's reached a deal to sell Montenay International, its North American portfolio of waste-to-energy contracts, to Covanta Holding Corporation for $450 million including debt assumption.

Two locally operating businesses have been added to the Russell 3000, an index of the 3,000 largest businesses by market capitalization, according to news releases about the additions.

With every turn of the tap, Indianapolis Water customers will be paying for a "debacle" of financial management that can be fixed only with an emergency water rate increase, state regulators said Tuesday.

The longtime auditor of the Mehlville Fire Protection District has alleged his firm lost a contract with the Metropolitan St.

Montgomery County Republicans see Jerry N. Johnson's appointment to lead the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission as a potential election issue.

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved the Indianapolis Department of Waterworks' request for an emergency rate increase Tuesday.

The York Water Company announced today that it has been added to the broad-market Russell 3000 Index after the Russell Investment Group published its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on June 29, 2009.

Patrick Nelson of Middlesex operates a high-density forklift that can reach 60 feet in the air at Green mountain Coffee roasters' new $9 million distribution center in Waterbury on Wednesday.

Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada has filed an application to extend water and sewer lines east on Mesquite Avenue to serve the federal detention center planned by Corrections Corporation of America.

New power plants planned along the lower Colorado River could use the same water supply that was denied San Antonio for future growth.

Some people living in Northwest Bexar County need to boil their water. The Southwest Water Company says there is a problem with a well around I-10 and Boerne Stage Road.

Did you know that after washing, rinsing, and adding ice, it takes three glasses of water to serve just one glass of water? Did you also know that according to the City of Stockton's Water Conservation Ordinance, restaurants are advised to serve water to customers only upon request? In an effort to promote greater awareness with respect to water ...

Questions were raised about construction crews watering newly planted sod. Water restrictions info SAN ANTONIO -- It was the large piles of sod on the road, followed by a water truck News 4 WOAI spotted spraying Wednesday that had us making calls to Bexar County Public Works and San Antonio Water System .

A sinkhole that opened on Tilden Lane on June 5 has some residents worried that a pipe under the road could be in danger of bursting, but Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission officials say they are monitoring the 66-inch watermain.

Trustees of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District tentatively have agreed to spend $2.1 million to cover overruns in a project to construct a new pump station and install mains and related equipment in Maryland Heights.

A massive water main break flooded streets in the heart of Downtown. The 8-inch line broke around midnight and sent thousands of gallons of water into the intersection of Travis and Alamo streets.