Water Well Journal
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60 January 2015 WWJ waterwelljournal.com January's PUNCH LIST Employers must notify OSHA of work-related fatalities within eight hours and work-related in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye within 24 hours. Gary Ganson, CIH, CSP, explaining new OSHA rule in "OSHA's Pending and Proposed Actions and Impact on Drilling Companies," page 32 "When you follow the operate-to-failure maintenance cycle, you often have to do more extensive rehabbing. You end up getting to a point where you're not able to maintain that asset." Neil Mansuy in "Maintaining Peak Performance," page 15 The February issue of Water Well Journal focuses on ground- water heat pumps. Highlighting it will be a feature article on how iron can impact geothermal systems. Farmers irrigated nearly 52 million acres of harvested cropland acres in 2013. U.S. Department of Agriculture, in "Irrigation Well Market Grows," page 29 2.78 million trillion gallons Amount of groundwater —30.1% of the world's freshwater—estimated for the entire planet of Earth. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1344 A pproximately 25% of the earth's total freshwater supply is stored as ground water, while less than 1% is stored in surface and water resources, such as rivers, lakes, and soil moisture. The National Ground Water A ssociation's groundwater sustainability white paper, Groundwater: A Critical Component of the Nation's Water Resources, cited in NGWA 's response to a 60 Minutes story on groundwater declines that aired on November 16, 2014. "People are learning to be more water conscious and do their part to help sustain the limited freshwater resources in the country." Mike Connor, deputy secretary of the U.S. Interior, in Industry Newsline, page 8 Not all acids are created equal . . . Each chemical has a different effective strength, weight, and other properties that define its use and compatibility with other products. Michael J. Schnieders, PG, PH-GW in "Acid Use During Well Maintenance," page 19