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Articles by Bruce Macler
A Sound Investment: ACE22 Small Systems Program
AWWA offers a wealth of resources to help smaller systems provide safe drinking water to their customers; keep up with treatment, operations and maintenance needs; and stay solvent. Although many small systems can't send staff to ACE22, AWWA standards, manuals, publications, online training, and section workshops can be used close to home.
Small Systems: Put Your Wastewater and Stormwater to Use!
For many smaller communities, wastewater and stormwater are a nuisance. If you work for a public water system, your customers probably foot the bill. If stormwater needs to be managed in your community, you probably pay for it one way or another. Where do wastewater and stormwater go? Much inland wastewater is treated, then evaporated, infiltrated, or dumped in a river. In coastal areas, most treated water is just disposed into the ocean.
Boost Your Career With a One AWWA Operator Scholarship
If you're a water operator wanting to learn more to get ahead and need money to do it, we encourage you to apply for a One AWWA Operator scholarship. Different from a traditional AWWA academic scholarship, a One AWWA Operator scholarship helps fund continuing education for water and wastewater operators and encourages students to enter the field of water operations.
Small System Public Communications: How to Do More With Less or Nothing
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How Does AWWA's Small Systems Division Benefit Small Systems?
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, there are about 35,000 small community water systems (defined as serving fewer than 10,000 people) and another 105,000 noncommunity water systems that serve transient and workplace populations. Although these systems face most of the same challenges as larger water utilities, they generally have fewer resources to successfully address them.
What Can a Water System Do to Prepare for a Power Outage?
Imagine it's a hot, windy day. Suddenly, your utility building's lights flicker and the power is off. The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system sighs and goes quiet. The whine of your water system's pumps and motors slows to an eerie silence. The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) screens blink once and go dark.
Take Advantage of Lessons Learned During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging effects on the water industry, but now you and your colleagues are getting your utility back to “normal,” whatever normal now means. As of this writing in mid-May, events are still moving unexpectedly and unevenly, so some things still can't be predicted. However, the fundamentals still apply. You need to ensure employee health and safety, your customers require attention, and operations need to continue.
Smoke and Water Don't Mix
Wildfires in California have become more frequent and intense. Along with addressing the typical consequences of these natural disasters, two drinking water utilities discovered how to handle high levels of volatile organic compounds in their distribution systems as well as the physical and public relations effects of contamination.
Update on the Ground Water Disinfection Rule
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), along with other interested participants, is developing a National Primary Drinking Water Regulation to address the public health risks from microbial contamination of groundwater systems. The history and issues associated with this rule, known as the Ground Water Disinfection Rule (GWDR), have recently been reviewed.1 Because of increasing interest in this rule, an update on its progress is in order.
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