New Orleans (NOLA) water meter jewelry is a big deal in the Big Easy. Rings, necklaces, and bracelet charms are fashioned after old water meters found scattered throughout NOLA’s French Quarter. There’s plenty of exciting trinkets to purchase in the birthplace of jazz, before enjoying a beignet and coffee at Cafe DuMonde. But, replicas of the city’s water [...]

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The debate on private funding for water infrastructure continues in the following interview with Jason Mumm, President of StepWise Utility Advisors, a wastewater and utility consultant firm. Mumm contacted WaterWideWeb after the article Private Investments in H20 Infrastructure was published on 02 February 2011. In the aforementioned article, Erika Berlinghof, Director of Government Relations of the [...]

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A 2,000 year-old tunnel was discovered by archaeologists under the walls of the city of Jerusalem last week. The discovery is particularly interesting to the study of water infrastructure in the ancient world. Archaeologists speculate that the tunnel was used to drain rainwater around the Second Temple in the Old City before it was destroyed in [...]

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit advocacy group, recently conducted a research study of tap water and found trace levels of hexavalent chromium (hex chrom) in the water supply of 35 U.S. cities including Boston, Tallahassee, San Jose, and Madison. Hex chrom has been identified as a toxic, cancer-causing chemical implicated in stomach and [...]

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