Watts recently conducted a national survey of more than 1,000 single-family homeowners on public water systems to assess consumer awareness of backflow prevention. The results reveal a major knowledge ...

NORTH ANDOVER, MA – Watts has published a new e-book – Water Safety: Protecting Our Communities from Backflow Incidents – to help early-career plumbing engineers and others understand the serious ...

Few of our community connections are as personal as a shared drinking water supply. That’s why water utility managers ask the public to do their part to make sure home connections prevent harmful ...

Montana Resources paid Butte $1.2 million for last summer's mine water contamination scare in the municipal water system.

One of the most valuable shared resources in our community lies right beneath our feet. Clark County is fortunate to have a large and high-quality aquifer to rely on for its drinking water supply. We ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - After a chemical leak and a backflow problem at a Corpus Christi asphalt plant shut the city's water system down, KAGS reached out to College Station Water Services to see ...

DOVER, Del.- Dover officials are contemplating a temporary halt on a costly plumbing requirement. The city has been requiring property owners to install and maintain ...

Hayden Lake, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls are just some of the cities already implementing it. Installing a backflow prevention valve can be costly. “To install one if you don’t have one already, it ...

The City Council is taking a look at toughening up enforcement for backflow preventer inspections. Under the proposal, customers would have to comply with current regulations on inspections, or be ...

Brett Rathje (front) and Eric Egge (back) look on while Derek Young works on a valve as they try to repair a water main break in Onslow in Jones County in 2014. Rathje, Egge and Young were working for ...