Source Water – Can’t Drink What You Don’t Have This article explains the importance of preserving and protecting the source of your drinking water. Whether a pond, lake, or stream, or that field along the river where your wells are located, drinking water sources must be managed to maintain their long-term integrity. Maintaining and protecting […]
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Are Your Water Rates Right for YOU? This article talks about the importance of setting equitable and adequate user rates to fund public drinking water operations and improvements. Clean, safe, and affordable public drinking water underpins economic and public health and benefits our residents, businesses, visitors, hospitals, and schools. As “hidden infrastructure”, water services are […]
What About Water? While 70% of Earth is covered with water, less than one percent is fresh and useable. No more water is being made – we essentially reuse what exists through the Water Cycle, a solar-powered engine that evaporates, transports, and deposits water around the world. Our bodies contain roughly 70% water, and we […]
Employment – Attracting the Best and the Brightest One of public water’s greatest challenges is offering compensation that competes, dollar for dollar, with the private sector. Traditionally, lower hourly municipal pay has been offset by higher job security and benefits such as health care and retirement. With current entry-level wages close to municipal starting pay, […]
Legislation – Make Your Opinion Count! Legislators shape policy that governs much of society, including municipal operations. The following will help you become an effective legislative advocate: · ID the Need. Identify and discuss your need internally as well as with colleagues in surrounding towns. The NH Municipal Association can be very helpful at this and later stages of […]
Who are Water Workers? All good managers and leaders know their colleagues are the most important part of an organization. Whether a sports team, musical group, or crew that keeps clean, safe, and affordable water coming to the tap, human talent and commitment guarantee success Last time, we talked about a generational funding opportunity to repair […]
March Town Meeting Money – Planning for Water Infrastructure Coming NOW – a generational opportunity to repair and upgrade your drinking and wastewater systems! After a 40-year drought in federal funding, New Hampshire is receiving substantial support for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. With proper planning and authorization, your town can bring critical infrastructure up to date […]
INFOGRAPHIC released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published the infographic, Layering Network Security Through Segmentation, to encourage organizations to implement network segmentation, an effective security technique that divides an organization’s network into multiple segments (also called subnetworks). Properly implemented network segmentation can limit or block an adversary’s access or movement to devices, data, and applications and restricts communications between subnetworks. This infographic illustrates the level […]
Operator Training- December 7, 2021, Concord, NH Following are the slides from the presentations at the December 7 Operator Training. Understanding a Cross Connection Program: What is it and how is it Implemented, Paul Whittemore, New England Backflow Construction Safety, Including Asbestos Awareness and Trenching, Jason Gagnon, Superintendent, North Conway Water Precinct Sampling Requirements, Jackie […]
Fall Technical Meeting – November 18, 2021 Following are slides from the presentations at the 2021 Fall Technical Meeting in Concord, NH. The True Cost of Paper: Moving Asset Management from Paper to Practice – Keith Hodsden, Sr., P.E., Senior Account Executive, Utility Cloud CISA Cyber and Physical Security Resources – Jason Climer, Protective Security […]