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Fall 2005 Contents
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On Tap Features
Social marketing combines commercial marketing techniques with social change and communication theories to alter a selected behavior in a target audience. While this method is new the environmental sector, it has been successfully used in public health promotion for years. This article takes a look at how a Florida water conservation program used social marketing to get its customers to save water through a lawn-watering program.
Conservation:
What Can Water Utilities Do?
Often we discuss how consumers can save water but overlook what water utilities can do to conserve water. This article explores how water utilities can adopt water conservation practices and save themselves some money in the long run.
Water
System Spotlight: New Water Commission Comes Online after 13 years of
Hard Work
This article spotlights the Fleming County Water Association in Kentucky
and its efforts to put together a water commission.
NESC
Partners with Engineers Without Borders-USA—African Village Receives
Site Assessment
This article is about a former NESC engineering scientist’s adventures in an African village that needed help with its well problems.
Tribes
Persist to get Fair Shake
This article discusses Native American water rights and how they’ve
taken on the government to win what is rightfully theirs.
Most
of the time, we think that the
environmental educational materials
that we provide to the public, regulators, water boards, operators, and
others are making some kind impact on the audience we have targeted.
But how do we know it’s
making any kind of difference?
What methods of evaluation do we have in place?
On
Tap Q&A
What
is the Ground Water Rule?
This Q&A discusses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
proposed Ground Water Rule and how it protects public health.
Until
Next Time...Why Water Conservation is Important
As we peer into the 21st century, water conservation is looking far more like an imperative than an option.
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Filter Backwashing
Backwashing a water system’s filters is not only vital to the life of the filter, it’s fundamental to the quality of the water coming out of the filter. Sooner or later, all filters need to be backwashed or replaced.
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