RURAL WATER E-NEWS …………………………….……….….……………………………. 2/12/2025
EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 14! Nominate your fellow Operators, Clerks, and Industry colleagues for a Wisconsin Rural Water Award! It is award season, and we are looking for nominations for people that have done an upstanding job in the water/wastewater industry. Maybe someone who has had a distinguished career, solved an especially difficult problem, or made you and your customer’s life better. Go to our website and nominate a deserving candidate today! 2025-Nominations-Form.pdf
Wisconsin joins legal effort to preserve tougher requirements for lead in water – Wisconsin has joined with nine other states and the District of Columbia to defend the federal lead and copper water rule that took effect Dec. 30, tightening standards for lead exposure and requiring water systems across the county to replace lead pipes by 2037. Wisconsin joins legal effort to preserve tougher requirements for lead in water – Wausau Pilot & Review
Evers proposes $145M plan to address PFAS in his next budget for Wisconsin – Evers also unveils new effort to craft groundwater standards for 6 PFAS chemicals in line with federal standards Evers proposes $145M plan to address PFAS in his next budget for Wisconsin – WPR
WI researchers use microbes to transform wastewater – Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to market, producers must contend with what’s left behind: roughly 6 billion pounds of whey by dry weight, says Declan Roche, chief commercial officer of Foremost Farms USA, a Wisconsin-based dairy cooperative. WI researchers use microbes to transform wastewater
Marquette University professor at forefront in defending clean water – In the history of slogans, one of the least appealing is probably the phrase “from toilet to tap.” But Brooke Mayer, an engineering professor at Marquette University who is one of the lead researchers for the In Defense of Water project, says that water reuse needs to happen in our modern world. Marquette University professor at forefront in defending clean water – WPR
Quote:
“To be is to do” – Socrates
“To do is to be” – Jean-Paul Sarte
“Do be do be do” – Frank Sinatra
– Kurt Vonnegut, in Deadeye Dick