Water Well Journal
Issue link: http://read.dmtmag.com/i/465664
"A water treatment customer is a customer for life. That means when some- thing goes wrong you have to be willing to see it through, including follow-up testing and additional visits to the site." Terry Swain, in "Dealing with Water Problems," page 17 waterwelljournal.com March PUNCH LIST The 17th National Groundwater Awareness Week is March 8-14. Last year, nearly 600 mostly non-groundwater industry websites promoted Groundwater Awareness Week. The hope is to push the number to more than 1000 this year. The April issue of Water Well Journal focuses on rules and regulations. Highlight- ing it will be a feature article on how the groundwater industry is coping with the no lead rule. "But we've always done it that way!" Those seven words are the most common response to a workplace accident or injury. Jack Glass, in "Make the Most of a Site Specific Safety Plan," page 42 "These reports do a great job of pulling together two decades of water-quality data on the basis of principal aquifers, and in particular, identifying the major relations between concentrations of naturally occurring contaminants and geology, hydrology, geochemistry, etc." Bill Alley, Ph.D., in Industry Newsline, page 10 Hydrologists estimate U.S. groundwater reserves to be at least 33,000 trillion gallons— equal to the amount discharged into the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River in the past 200 years. National Geographic Society, "Water" map, 1993 The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the nation pumps 79.3 billion gallons per day of fresh groundwater for all purposes, down from the 79.6 BGD in the 2005 estimate and the 83.3 BGD in the Survey's 2000 estimate. Kevin McCray, CAE, in "Estimated Groundwater Use in 2010 in the United States," page 28 68 March 2015 WWJ March 8-14, 2015 national groundwater awareness week