When involved in a collaborative, international health care project, it is best to set aside what you know and open your mind to how other parts of the world treat their drinking water. Take what you have learned and evaluate it to see if the processes can be applied elsewhere.

Capturing and reclaiming water, once an idea primarily of interest to environmentalists, is serious business today as municipalities’ aging water infrastructures and shrinking budgets are under stress. Combined with modern technology, these old ideas are finding new uses in commercial applications.

Safe drinking water is a precious commodity. Yet there are no universally recognized and accepted international standards for drinking water. Even where standards do exist and are applied, the number, types and permitted concentrations of contaminants covered may vary significantly from one standard to another.

Cities and states continue to decide what standard — Article 12C, Title 22 and NSF 350 — will work best for its residents. Regardless of the successes that these standards have thus far enjoyed, the goal should still be to create a single, standardized platform through which industry (and the public) can better understand the requirements imposed on them, as well as the potential risks of any onsite wastewater reuse system.

The EPA should serve the health of the general public. It was never intended to be a job-creating agency.

Updated requirements have been made to testing procedures and product packaging.

Through determination and inspiration, this woman has worked tirelessly to create change in the way we use water.

There has to be a different approach to combating Legionella development when designing plumbing and hydronics systems.

The new goal would go a long way in reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions.

The plumbing manufacturer has launched declare labels and has added more environmental product declarations.