Also in this week's sewer and water news, a Minnesota representative calls on the government to allocate more money for water infrastructure; and a Pennsylvania town's water mandate has citizens ready to migrate elsewhere

Overhead dangers can come into play during sewer work, as a recent job site accident in Pennsylvania showed

Check out this selection of some of the best images that appeared in Municipal Sewer & Water magazine over the past year

Here’s a look at three projects in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia that the EPA recently recognized for their innovative approaches in handling stormwater

In this week’s news briefs, a San Diego area water district wants to build a pipeline to a Baja California desalination plant, and a New Mexico utility is making a $1 million investment to protect its area watershed

The Philadelphia Water Department is trying to help struggling ratepayers and at the same time perhaps bolster overall collections

In this week’s news briefs, the Pennsylvania House passes a bill that would bring Pittsburgh’s troubled utility under the authority of the state, and new research shows how dire the freshwater situation is for northern Canada’s cities

In this week’s news briefs, a National Science Foundation study looks further at how evapotranspiration plays into the water use picture in California, and Pennsylvania American Water takes steps to eliminate lead service lines for its customers

In this week’s news briefs, Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, is losing 400,000 gallons of water daily because of leaks created by an earthquake late last year, and a trench collapse traps a worker in Omaha, Nebraska, but rescue crews are fortunately able to save him.