Toward the goal of keeping plumbing manufacturers contributing during the pandemic, PMI issued a letter to Vice President Mike Pence to urge the Trump administration to identify plumbing manufacturing workers as "essential" and allowed to work as shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders go into effect.

Members of the Building Trades Unions, along with their union contractor partners, have been collecting new, unopened respirators and other vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to aid the city’s frontline health care workforce.

The list identifies those professions deemed essential to continued critical infrastructure viability and advises such workers to continue normal operations, appropriately modified to account for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) workforce and customer protection guidance.

The ‘AD Live’ virtual meeting was introduced the week prior after AD decided to shift its spring network meetings to virtual formats in order to minimize the risks associated with the current COVID-19 pandemic.

All eyes are on the spreading coronavirus, and distributors have an especially important task in managing the challenges that arise from the global health crisis.

It is likely that the COVID-19 coronavirus can be spread through building sanitary drainage systems; as long as the pandemic is still active, it should be assumed by anyone working on a sanitary drainage system that the virus is present.

Fifty percent of Americans said news coverage of cold and flu outbreaks has an impact on their hand washing behavior.

Arrangements are being made for the virtual format, where ISD-U.S. and PHCP will be conducting member business meetings, hosting Q&A sessions, and facilitating conference calls for network sessions.

A report from NSF Health Sciences and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network recommends electronic cooling tower registry to help public health investigators quickly pinpoint the source of outbreaks.