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Accidental Chlorine Release Emergency Notifications: How Soon Must They Be Made?—Spring 2016
Advisory Council Appoints Three New Members—Fall 1999
Alvine Laure Ekame Joins MDH Section of Drinking Water Protection—Summer 2021
Alycia Overbo Takes Over New Unit at MDH (and Other Comings and Goings)—Fall 2023
Ammonia in the Distribution System: First in a Series—Summer 2007 and Winter 2007-08
Analysis Centers Enhance Information Sharing on Security Issues—Summer 2010
Andrew Sullivan Honored for Outstanding Leadership in Developing Liquid Assets Minnesota—Winter 2012-2013
Anna Schliep Is New Lead in Drinking Water Coordinator—Summer 2020
Annual Monitoring Schedule—Winter 2011-2012
Annual Monitoring Schedules Coming Soon—Winter 2008-09
Annual Report Again Shows State Drinking Water in Good Shape—Summer 1997
Another Bottle Bites the Dust—Summer 2015
Another Drinking Water Institute in the Books—Fall 2024
Another Successful Teacher Institute—Fall 2005
Anti-Bottled Water Web Site—Fall 2003
Applications Open for Water and Wastewater Operator Certification Advisory Council—Fall 2024
Area Code Reminder—Winter 1998-99
Area Wide Optimization Program Provides Surface Water Optimization Training—Spring 2019
Arsenic MCL Lowered to 10 ppb—Spring 2002
Arsenic Treatment Plants—Summer 2003
Art as a Resource for Water Education and Communication—Summer 2024
Artist-in-Residence Promotes Source Water Protection—Spring 2024
Asset Management Pilot in Minnesota—Spring 2017
Available from the Health Department: Brochure on Bottled Water, SEMS Software—Spring 2004
AWWA at the Fair—Winter 2003-04
AWWA Awards—Winter 1997-98
AWWA Book Addresses Taste and Odor Issues—Summer 2010
AWWA Conference in Duluth: Lyle Stai Among Those Honored—Winter 2006-07
AWWA News: Awards—Winter 2000-01
AWWA News: Youth Education Initiative Moving Forward—Winter 2000-01
Area Wide Optimization Program Provides Surface Water Optimization Training—Spring 2019
Back in Action (Drinking Water Institute, State Fair Fun)—Fall 2022
Bacteriological Laboratory Assignment Update: Late Breaking News—Spring 2016
Bacteriological Laboratory Change for Very Small Communities—Winter 2015-2016
Bacteriological Results for CWSs > 1,000 on Weekends—Summer 2016
Bacteriological Sampling Plan Requirements and Guidance—Fall 2016 and Winter 2016-2017
Banat Retires from MDH; Blair to Succeed Hubbard at MRWA—Spring 2018
Bayport Receives Fluoride Grant—Summer 2012
Be Prepared for Freeze Ups—Winter 2014-2015
Below-Market-Rate Loans for Public Water Systems—Spring 2006
Bernie Bullert Featured in U of M Foundation Publication—Summer 2024
Best Security Practices for Water Systems: A Quick Review—Fall 2008
Blame It on the Water—Fall 2007
Bloomington Deals with Cross-Connections—Winter 2010-2011
Bloomington Hysterical about Hydrants—Fall 2017
Bloomington Kicks Glass at AWWA—Fall 2016
Bloomington Water: Rushin Endorsed—Winter 2019-2020
Bob Carpenter and Wayne Enney Die—Spring 2014
Bock Tastes Best—Summer 2003
Bottled Water News: Study Finds Contaminants in “Pure” Bottled Water; Bottler Sues Utility for “Attack” on Its Product—Winter 2008-09
Breaking News: Bad Bounce Puts Waterline Editor on Ice—Fall 2011
Breckenridge Featured on CBS Infrastructure Segment—Summer 2017
Bring in the New Year with a Lead-Free Cheer!—Winter 2013-2014
Bruce Olsen Retires from MDH—Winter 2012-2013
Brushes with Fame in the Water Profession—Summer 2008
CCR Compliance Is 100 Percent—Winter 2008-09
CCR Guidance Booklet Published—Summer 2000
CCRs Rolling In—Fall 1999
Call for Papers for Minnesota Water ‘98—Winter 1997-98
Calm under Pressure in Moorhead—Fall 2020
Capacity Development Report—Winter 2002-03
Capacity Development Report Available—Winter 2005-06 and Winter 2008-09
Celebrating 40 Years of SDWA—Fall 2014 and Winter 2014-2015
Center for Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants Proposed—Summer 2009
Certification Is Changing—Summer 2000
Certification Q & A—Spring 1999
Chad Kolstad Takes Over as MDH Drinking Water Revolving Fund Coordinator—Winter 2011-2012
Change in Fluoride Recommended Optimal Level—Summer 2012
Changes in Minnesota Department of Health District Engineers—Summer 2017
Changes in MDH Drinking Water Structure—Spring 1998
Changes in Fluoride Compliance Procedures—Winter 1998-99
Chaska Chlorinates—Fall 1999
Chaska Prevails in Great Minnesota Tap Water Taste Test—Winter 2018-2019
Check Out Patty Potty and Other Worthy Sites—Spring 2020
Chloramination: Considerations for Public Water Supplies and Their Customers—Winter 2006-07
Chlorine Residual Reporting—Spring 2004
Chris Voeltz of St. Peter Receives Water for People Award—Fall 2010
Chuck Brackin Dies—Spring 2019
City of Lakeville Breaks Ground for Water Treatment Plant—Spring 1997
Clean Water Act Turns 50; Safe Drinking Water Act Not Far Behind—Winter 2022-2023
Clean Water Fund—Summer 2010
Clean Water Fund Performance Report Now Available—Summer 2012
Clean Water Fund Success Story: Rock County Rural Water District—Fall 2018
Clean Water Fund Water Reuse Project Seeking Stakeholder Input—Fall 2016 and Winter 2016-2017
Clean Water Mural Unveiled in Minneapolis—Spring 2017
Climax and Sabin Selected for Arsenic Demonstration Program—Winter 2002-03
Closing the Gap on Water System Security—Winter 2015-2016
Cold Spring: More than Just Beer—Fall 2015
Coming Down (Cloquet Water Tower)—Winter 2003-04
Coming Down . . . . . . But Still Up—Winter 2000-01
Competition at AWWA Conference—Winter 2009-2010
Compliance Corner by Mackenzie Hales—Summer 2013 and Winter 2013-2014
Compliance Corner by Pat McKasy—Fall 2000
Compliance Corner: CCRs—Winter 2001-02
Compliance Corner: Disinfectant Residual Reporting—Winter 2003-04
Compliance Corner: New Monitoring Requirements—Fall 2003
Complying with America's Water Infrastructure Act—Summer 2019
Confined Spaces: Treat with Respect—Spring 1998
Conservation Can Start in Your Own Backyard—Summer 2015
Consumer Confidence Reports—Fall 2003
Consumer Confidence Report Compliance—Summer 2002
Consumer Confidence Report Distribution Due July 1—Spring 2012
Consumer Confidence Report Update: Worthington Wins Contest for Best CCR—Spring 2000
Consumer Confidence Reports Rolling In—Fall 2002
Contaminant Indicators Tracked—Summer 2009
Contact Hours Primer—Winter 1999-2000
Contract Operators Wanted—Fall 1999
Conversion of Test Wells No Longer Allowed—Summer 1998
Cook Mayor and Council Work for Free to Keep Water Rates from Rising—Spring 2016
Cool Videos—Winter 2018-2019
Coping and Continuing with COVID—Summer 2020
Corn Cob Crowned—Spring 2024
Corrosion Control Success Stories—Spring 1997
Could We Be Toledo?—Winter 2014-2015
CREAT Is Coming—Summer 2020
Creating a Tap Water Friendly Home for Children—Fall 2014
Crookston Cracks Up—Winter 2003-04
Crookston Honored with People's Choice Award—Spring 2020
Cross-Connection Control - Part 8 in a Series—Fall 2015
Cross Connections and Backflow Preventer Training—Spring 2017
Deb Swackhamer Dies—Fall 2021
Dan Boyce Retires—Summer 2017
Deaths in the Water Industry—Winter 2016-2017
Department of Agriculture Develops Videos of Groundwater and Nitrate Movement in Southeast Minnesota—Winter 2020-2021
Department of Natural Resources Issues Drought Guidance—Fall 2021
Design-Build for Water/Wastewater Conference in Minneapolis March 29-31—Spring 2017
DWRF Dates—Summer 1998
DWRF Deadlines—Spring 1999
DWRF Making It Happen—Winter 2000-01
DWRF Program Progresses—Summer 1997
Dean Huschle: Water Operator, Rock Star Photographer—Winter 2006-07
Design-Build for Water/Wastewater Conference in Minneapolis March 29-31—Spring 2017
Discussion Guide for Small Cities—Summer 2015
Disinfection Byproduct Monitoring—Summer 2003
Disinfection Byproducts/Surface Water Rules Take Effect—Spring 2006
Do You Have E-mail/On-Line Access?—Winter 2005-06
Does Your System Need Improvements?—Spring 2000
Don't Do This . . . Nor This—Fall 2021
Don’t Drink the (Bottled) Water—Summer 1999
Doug Mandy Receives Henry Walraven Award, Then Retires—Summer 2008
Drinking Water Academy Takes Off—Winter 1999-2000
Drinking Water Action Plan to Help Identify Inequities—Spring 2024
Drinking Water Annual Report Covers Pandemic Responses by Utilities—Fall 2021
Drinking Water Changes at the Minnesota Department of Health (Karla Peterson and Anita Smith)—Fall 2007
Drinking Water Message Center—Winter 1999-2000
Drinking Water Institute—Winter 2016-2017
Drinking Water Institute Features Teachers with Century-old Water Tower—Winter 2008-09
Drinking Water Institute Draws Teachers in St. Cloud—Fall 2012
Drinking Water Institute for Teachers Includes Cave Tour—Fall 2003
Drinking Water Institute Gets Off the Ground—Fall 2001
Drinking Water Institute Held in Eden Prairie—Winter 2010-2011
Drinking Water Institute Held in Oakdale—Winter 2009-2010
Drinking Water Institute in Lakeville—Winter 2017-2018
Drinking Water Institute in Minneapolis—Winter 2015-2016
Drinking Water Institute in Rochester—Summer 2013 and Winter 2018-2019
Drinking Water Institute Postponed until 2022—Summer 2021
Drinking Water Institute Receives AWWA Education Award—Summer 2002
Drinking Water Institute Set for Red Wing in August—Spring 2022
Drinking Water Institutes Set to Debut—Summer 2001
Drinking Water Institute Teachers Return for Follow-Up in Eden Prairie—Spring 2024
Drinking Water Institute Wraps Up 2022—Winter 2022-2023
Drinking Water Needs Survey for 2021—Spring 2021
Drinking Water Quality Report Now Available—Spring 2010
Drinking Water Revolving Fund Loans—Spring 2004
Drinking Water Revolving Fund Preliminary Proposals Rolling In—Spring 1997
Drinking Water Revolving Fund Takes Off—Winter 1997-98
Drinking Water Revolving Funds Flow throughout State—Fall 2000
Drinking Water Tops List of Best Inventions; Bottled Water Makes Different List—Summer 2014
Duluth Communicates to Customers on Lead in Water—Fall 2021
Duluth Water Survives the Water—Fall 2012
An Easy, No-Cost Pandemic Drill for Utilities—Fall 2009 and Summer 2020
Eden Prairie Operators Stay Cool in Responding to Electrical Incident—Winter 2012-2013
Education in Minneapolis—Winter 2023-2024
Effluent to Beer—Spring 2017
Electronic Delivery Options for Consumer Confidence Reports—Summer 2013
Ellingboe Takes over as ASDWA President—Spring 2017
Emergency Response CD Available from EPA—Summer 2005
Emergency Response Guidance Document Now Available—Spring 2011
Engineering America’s Tony Belden Still Remembered by Notre Dame Fans—Fall 2009
Englund Reaches the End—Summer 2003
Environmental Quality Board Adopts State Water Plan—Spring 2011
EPA Considers Regulating Perchlorate—Winter 2019-2020
EPA Continues with Arsenic Review—Fall 2001
EPA Develops PFAS Action Plan—Summer 2019
EPA Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment—Fall 2011
EPA Finishes Lead and Copper Revision, Plans Improvements—Spring 2022
EPA Manager Visits Minnesota—Fall 2005
EPA Offers Recruitment Video for Careers in Water—Fall 2010
EPA Publishes Flood Resilience Guide for Water and Wastewater—Winter 2014-2015
EPA Regulatory Update—Spring 1999
EPA to Revise Lead and Copper Rules—Summer 2005
EPA Turns 50—Spring 2020
EQB Prepares State Water Plan—Winter 2010-2011
Erie Water Works Gets Brief Security Scare—Fall 2004
Exam Refresher Format Is Changing—Winter 2005-06
Exploring the Bowels of the Twin Cities—Summer 1999
Fairmont Wins Tap Water Taste Test—Winter 2014-2015
Fact Sheet for Permanganate Overfeeds—Spring 2017
Fact Sheets, Resources Now on MDH Web Page—Winter 2018-2019
The Fate of Genes Encoding for Tetracycline Resistance in Anaerobic and Aerobic Digestion—Fall 2010
Federal Stimulus Plan: Effects on Minnesota Drinking Water Systems—Summer 2009
Filling Stations for Water Bottles Popping Up across Minnesota—Spring 2012
Filter Backwash Permits from MPCA—Fall 2007
$5.21 Fee to Become $6.36 Fee—Winter 2005-06
First Consumer Confidence Reports Due in 1999—Winter 1998-99
Flint: Could It Happen Here?—Spring 2016
Flint Still a Hot Topic—Summer 2016
Flooding, Drought, and Extreme Weather Impacts on Public Water Systems—Fall 2022
Florida Utility Dodges a Disaster with Prompt Reponse—Summer 2021
Fluoridation Equipment Improvement Grants—Spring 2017
Fluoridation Rule Revision—Fall 2018
Fluoride in Drinking Water Turns 60—Summer 2005
Fluoride Source Water Survey—Spring 2014
Fluoride Supply Disrupted—Winter 2005-06
Former 20-game Winner Appears at Northwest District School—Spring 2009
Former Vikings Star Chad Greenway to be Keynote Speaker at Metro School—Spring 2024
Former Water Operators Mike Albrecht and Gerry "Boot" Butenhoff Die—Summer 2015
Free Virtual Workshops Coming Up—Summer 2023
Freeport Facelift Completed—Winter 2020-2021
Freeport: Have a Nice Day—Summer 2020
Fountains Promote Minneapolis Water—Fall 2008
Full House at Management Institute—Summer 2007
Full House for Drinking Water Institute—Fall 2007
Fun at the Fair—Winter 1999-2000
Functional Water Towers—Summer 2002
Funding for Lead Service Line Replacements and Other Resources—Fall 2023
Funds for Minnesota Water Research Begin to Flow—Fall 2019
Future of Minnesota Drinking Water Report Now Available—Fall 2020
Gene Jourdan Dies—Summer 1997
Get the Exam Prep App—Fall 2018
Getting a Taste for Water—Winter 2012-2013
Getting the Message Out and Having Fun Doing It—Fall 2022
Gimmicks & Gadgets—Spring 2004
Going the Extra Mile—Summer 2002
Golden Spike for Lewis & Clark—Fall 2024
Golden Valley Survives Contractor Accident without Water Disruption—Spring 2018
Good News Again—Summer 2000
Good News and Bad News on the Bottled Water Ban in National Parks—Winter 2017-2018
Good Ol' Minneapolis Tap Water a Hit at Cedar-Riverside Health Fair—Winter 2019-2020
Good Ol’ Tap Water—Winter 2007-08
Got a Gimmick? Got a Gadget? Bring It to the Metro School—Spring 2017
Governor Dayton Announces Clean Drinking Water Starts with Me! Poster Contest (and 25 by '25)—Summer 2017
Governor Dayton Announces Drinking Water Annual Report—Fall 2015
Governor Dayton Calls for Water Quality Summit—Spring 2016
Governor Proclaims Safe Water Week—Summer 2012
Governor Walz Proclaims Safe Drinking Water Week in Minnesota—Fall 2019
Governor Walz Proclaims Safe Drinking Water Week in Minnesota—Summer 2025
Governor Walz Signs Important Documents—Fall 2023
Governor's Water Summit—Summer 2016
Grant Funding Available to Seal Unused Public Water Supply Wells—Winter 2012-2013
Grant Funding Used to Seal Unused Public Water Supply Wells—Fall 2013
Grants Awarded for Bottle-Filling Stations—Spring 2020
Grants Coming for Source Water Protection Implementation—Fall 2009
A Great Time for Drinking Water Revolving Loan Funds!—Winter 1998-99
Green: A New Color for Water—Fall 2009
Ground Water Rule Assessment Monitoring—Winter 2008-09
Ground Water Rule Refresher—Fall 2011
Ground Water Rule Update—Summer 2008
Groundbreaking for New MDH Building—Fall 2003
Groundwater Rule Update—Summer 2002
Groundwater Virus Monitoring Study—Summer 2015
Gunilla Montgomery Dies—Summer 2023
H₂O to Go on the Road in St. Paul—Summer 2024
Hands-on Basic Training for Water Operators at Vermilion Community College—Fall 2003
Help Available for Nonmunicipal Systems—Winter 2000-01
Help Possible for Lead Service Line Replacements—Spring 2020
High Ammonia Levels Lead to Nitrite Problems in Clara City—Fall 1998
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies—Winter 2011-2012
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 2)—Spring 2012
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 3)—Summer 2012
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 4)—Fall 2012
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 5)—Winter 2012-2013
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 6)—Spring 2013
High-Hazard Cross Connections as Significant Deficiencies (Part 7)—Summer 2013
Highlights of the 98th Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2014-2015
Hoffbuhr a Hit at Minnesota AWWA—Winter 2007-08
Hydration Stations a Hit in Schools—Fall 2021
ICS Training Available—Fall 2012
I'd Recognize That Guy Anywhere—Summer 2012
Images of 91st Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2007-08
Implementation of Green Project Reserve Funds—Spring 2010
Important News about the 2016 Metro School - Registrants to be Capped at 240—Fall 2015 and Winter 2015-2016
Infrastructure and Cybersecurity—Summer 2024
In-Person Schools Returning—Fall 2021
In the News—Winter 1998-99
Increase in Service Connection Fee—Fall 2004
Initial Distribution System Evaluations and Disinfection Byproduct Sampling—Fall 2007
Innovative Treatment Methods for Arsenic Removal—Fall 2003
Invalidation of Total Coliform Samples—Summer 2015
Invisible Heroes Videos Highlight Drinking Water Providers—Summer 2018
Is Certification Changing Again?—Fall 1998
Is the Water Colder—Fall 2021
Jim Haugen Dies—Spring 2002
Jim Lundy Named Hydrologist Supervisor at MDH—Winter 2013-2014
Jim Sadler Has a Cow—Fall 2012
Jim Sadler Retires—Summer 2018
John Blackstone Dies—Spring 2013
John Ehlinger Killed in Sauk Rapids—Fall 2006
John Kriesel to be Keynote Speaker for 2022 Metro Water Operators School—Winter 2021-2022 and Spring 2022
John Thom Retires from Richfield—Spring 2001
Johnson and Larsen Named MDH District Engineer Supervisors—Spring 2018
Joint Powers Board Water System Receives National Safety Award—Winter 2004-05
Karla Peterson Receives George Warren Fuller Award—Winter 2020-2021
Keeping Kids Engaged—Fall 2012
Kim Larsen Named Supervisor of MDH Community Water Supply Unit—Spring 2024
Kudos—Winter 2006-07
Lake Elmo Sweeps Doubleheader in State Fair Taste Test—Winter 2017-2018
Lake Harriet Pump—Spring 2020
Larry Cole—Fall 2016
Last Chance to Remain on Mailing List for Printed Copies of the Waterline—Summer 2021
The Latest on Arsenic—Fall 2000
The Latest on Corpus Christi—Spring 2017
The Latest on Lewis and Clark—Spring 2018
Lead and Copper Corrosion Control: Success Lies in Treatment Consistency—Spring 2000
Lead and Copper Data Declared Private and Nonpublic—Spring 2006
Lead and Copper Improvements—Winter 2024-2025
Lead and Copper Revisions for Minnesota Public Water Systems—Winter 2022-2023
Lead and Drinking Water Testing Program for School and Child Care Programs—Summer 2023
Lead Service Line Inventories Due October 16, 2024—Summer 2023 and Fall 2023
Lead Service Lines: Where Are They?—Summer 2020
Legionella and Water Supplies—Summer 2012
Lessons from a Flood (Roseau)—Summer 2003
Lessons from Walkerton—Fall 2005
Lessons Learned in Blaine—Winter 2017-2018
Lewis and Clark Complete in Minnesota but Work Is Everlasting—Summer 2019
Lewis and Clark Completed in Minnesota—Spring 2019
Lewis and Clark Moving through Minnesota—Spring 2017
Lewis and Clark Project Gets Needed Funding—Fall 2017
Lewis and Clark Project Reaches Magnolia—Winter 2016-2017
Lewis and Clark Project to Benefit from Increase in Rural Water Funding—Spring 2020
Lewis and Clark Reaches Minnesota—Fall 2015
Lewis and Clark Rumble Along—Summer 2016
Lewis and Clark Shooting for the Moon—Winter 2017-2018
Lewis and Clark Summary—Summer 2018
Lewis and Clark Update—Summer 2021
Licensing Requirements for Well and Pump Work on Public Water Wells—Spring 2009
Lifting Injuries (Camera-Ready Sheet)—Fall 2000
Lih-in Rezania Retires from MDH after Nearly Three Decades—Summer 2022
Liquid Assets Documentary Nearing Completion—Winter 2011-2012
Liquid Assets Minnesota News—Fall 2012
List of Speakers for AWWA Schools Being Updated and Expanded—Spring 2007
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule—Winter 2004-05
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule—Summer 2009
MAP Tower Training—Fall 2004
MDH Adopts GRAPS—Winter 2017-2018
MDH and AWWA Participate in State Fair Eco Experience—Winter 2009-2010
MDH Compliance Corner—Summer 2010
MDH Contracts with MRWA for Technical Assistance—Summer 1998
MDH Develops Health-Based Guidance for Manganese—Fall 2012
MDH District Engineers Assignments—Fall 2017
MDH District Realignment—Winter 1997-98
MDH Drafts Interconnection Policy—Spring 2017
MDH Drinking Water Information on the World Wide Web—Spring 1999
MDH Drinking Water Web Site Gets Shorter Address, Hosts New Drinking Water Module—Spring 2008
MDH Efforts on Developing Guidelines on Drinking Water Contaminants—Fall 2010
MDH/EPA Collaborate on Emergency Response Plan Workshop—Winter 2004-05
MDH/EPA PFAS Dashboard and Roadmap—Winter 2022-2023
MDH Fluoridation Rule Revisions and Variances Following Federal Recommendation Update—Fall 2015
MDH Funds Filling Stations—Winter 2018-2019
MDH Guidance to Operator Exposure to Radon at Water Treatment Plants—Summer 2019
MDH High-Hazard Cross Connections and Significant Deficiencies—Spring 2017
MDH Hires Source Water Planners—Fall 1998
MDH Issues Annual Drinking Water Report—Summer 2001
MDH Issues Drinking Water Annual Report Covering 2021—Summer 2022
MDH Issues Drinking Water Report—Summer 2002
MDH Issues Fact Sheet on Operator Exposure of Radon at Water Treatment Plants—Fall 2019
MDH Issues Guidance to Operator Exposure of Radon at Water Treatment Plants—Winter 2019-2020
MDH Issues New Home Water Treatment Fact Sheet—Summer 2019
MDH Issues Press Release on Home Water Treatment Scams—Fall 2019
MDH Kiosk Debuts at MRWA Technical Conference—Summer 2023
MDH/MDA Pesticide and Pesticide Degradate Reconnaissance Monitoring Project—Winter 2010-2011
MDH Lab Reprocessing Water Sample Data—Winter 2015-2016
MDH Moving in September—Fall 2005
MDH News—Fall 2014
MDH Proposing Updates to Health Risk Limits Rules—Winter 2023-2024
MDH Publishes Fact Sheet on Home Water Softening—Fall 2018
MDH Releases Annual Report—Summer 2005
MDH Releases Annual Report—Summer 2007 and Summer 2008 and Summer 2009 and Summer 2013
MDH Releases Annual Report During Safe Drinking Water Week—Summer 2024
MDH Review Prompts Changes to Water Sampling Procedures—Summer 2016
MDH Roots: Still Planted—Summer 2016
MDH Staffing and Boundary Changes—Fall 2010
MDH Survey of Water Affordability—Summer 2017
MDH Takes Part in Pharmaceutical Study—Summer 2001
MDH Testing for PFAS—Fall 2022
MDH to Propose Updates to Health Risk Limits Rules—Spring 2021
MDH to Reduce Printed Copies of Waterline—Fall 2019 and Winter 2019-2020
MDH to Require Separate Storage Rooms for Incompatible Chemicals—Fall 2012
MDH Updates and Reissues Press Release on Shady Sales of Water Treatment Devices—Spring 2013
MDH Women Participate in Discussion on the "Invisible Truth about Minnesota's Groundwater Future"—Fall 2015
MPCA Issues Guidance on Pharmaceutical Disposal—Spring 2011
Magnificent Minneapolis Manholes—Fall 2013
Making Lemonade out of . . . a Leaky Lab—Fall 201
Mammoth Main Break in Minneapolis—Spring 2013
Mandy Takes Charge—Winter 2003-04
Many Small Systems Continue to Face Day-to-Day Challenges with System Management—Summer 2013
Mark Sloan Dies—Summer 2018
Mankato Receives Source Water Protection Award—Summer 2018
Membrane Filtration: Wave of the Future?—Spring 1998
Membrane Technology Conference Slated for Minneapolis in August—Summer 2005
Met Council to Develop Water Supply Master Plan for Twin Cities—Summer 2005
Metro School Dates and Locations Set for Future Years—Summer 2008
Metro School Draws Big Crowds—Summer 2019
Metro School Moving—Fall 2022
Metro School Moving Back to Earle Brown Heritage Center—Summer 2016
Metro School to Feature Big-Name Speakers—Spring 2025
Metro School to Feature Stand-Alone Exam Prep for Class A & B Licenses—Winter 2016-2017
Metro School to Have Special Days for Superintendents—Winter 2019-2020 and Spring 2020
Metropolitan Council Honors Employees for Drinking Water Awards—Summer 2019
Method Detection Limit Studies—Summer 1999
Minneapolis and St. Paul among Top-Rated Utilities in EWG Study—Spring 2010
Minneapolis Institute of Art Decorates Water Towers—Winter 2015-2016
Minneapolis Launches ReThink Your Drink—Fall 2019
Minneapolis Scores High in Customer Satisfaction—Winter 2020-2021
Minneapolis Water Magic Project Continues Mission of ReThink Your Drink—Spring 2021
Minneapolis Water Works Honored—Spring 2015
Minneapolis Wins State Fair Tap Water Taste Test—Winter 2023-2024
Minneapolis's Matt Rasmussen Deploys to Mississippi for Jackson Water Crisis—Winter 2022-2023
Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2004-05
Minnesota AWWA Holds 90th Annual Conference—Winter 2006-07
Minnesota AWWA Holds 100th Annual Conference—Winter 2016-2017
Minnesota AWWA Offers One-Day Seminars—Summer 2001
Minnesota AWWA on Facebook—Spring 2011
Minnesota AWWA Participates in Future City Competition—Spring 2023
Minnesota AWWA Promotes Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)—Fall 2018
Minnesota AWWA to Host Water Plant Safety and Security Workshop—Fall 2019
Minnesota AWWA Virtual Water Operators School Set for March 30 to April 7—Spring 2021
Minnesota AWWA Web Site—Spring 2004
A Minnesota City's Move toward Chlorination Appears to Have Stopped a Recent Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak—Summer 2025
Minnesota Cities Face and Overcome Challenges (Fergus Falls and St. Paul)—Summer 2005
Minnesota Communities Receive Fluoridation Quality Awards—Spring 2024
Minnesota Department of Health Celebrates Anniversary of SDWA—Summer 2014
Minnesota Department of Health Implements Virus Study—Summer 2014
Minnesota Department of Health Topics - What Is MDH Doing about Lead in Drinking Water? and Be Ready for Floods—Spring 2019
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Water Supply Planning—Winter 2015-2016
Minnesota IDSE Monitoring Sheds Light on DBPs and Chloramines—Fall 2008
Minnesota Joint Analysis Center Seeks Partners in Information Sharing and Exchange Program—Fall 2008
Minnesota Leads the Way in CCR Compliance—Winter 1999-2000
Minnesota Leads the Way in Lead Service Line Inventories—Winter 2024-2025
Minnesota Ranks First—Winter 2000-01
Minnesota Rural Water Association Apprenticeship Program—Summer 2022
Minnesota Rural Water Association Lead Service Line Survey—Summer 2019
Minnesota Section—AWWA Conference—Winter 1998-99
Minnesota Section Education—Winter 1998-99
Minnesota Water Research Fund—Spring 2019
Minnesota Water Research Funds Keep Flowing—Spring 2022 and Winter 2024-2025
MnWARN Moves Forward—Fall 2007
MnWARN Responds to Northeastern Minnesota Flooding—Fall 2012
Mobile Art Lab—Winter 2016-2017
Mobile Art Lab Focuses on Water—Winter 2015-2016
Model Curriculum/Training Schedule (with Speaker Form)—Summer 1999
Module on Minnesota Drinking Water Receives Awards from AWWA, MAGC—Summer 2007 and Winter 2007-08
Monitoring for Total Chlorine Residual—Spring 2004
Monitoring Schedule for Entire Year to be Sent to Systems—Spring 2001
More Fun Than a Science Experiment—Spring 1999
More Honors for Moorhead—Fall 2024
Mostly Good News about Confidence in Tap Water—Winter 2022-2023
MRWA Offers Apprenticeship Program—Winter 2023-2024
Municipal Water Supply Emergency Communication System Established—Summer 2003
New Addresses for Minnesota Department of Health Water Website—Fall 2019 and Winter 2019-2020
New Area Code for MDH Metro Office—Summer 1998
New Certification Rules Are Here—Spring 2001
New Certification Rules to Apply to Non-Municipal Operators—Spring 1997
New Coliform Sample Drop-off Site in International Falls—Winter 2016-2017
New Criteria for Approval of Water and Wastewater Courses—Winter 1997-98
New Display at Eco Experience—Winter 2018-2019
New Drinking Water Page Now Available on Health Department Web Site—Spring 2002
New EPA Tools—Fall 2015
New Home for Metro School in 2007—Spring 2007
New Location for Metro District Water Operators—Spring 2023
New MDH Compliance Officer: Renee Anderson—Summer 2004
New MDH Engineer: Jenny Soltys—Spring 2019
New Seminar on Drinking Water Systems Offered for Local Officials—Spring 1999
New System for Coliform Samples—Spring 2002
New Toolkit Will Help You Communicate—Fall 2018
New! The Water Utility Response On-the-Go Mobile Website—Fall 2015
New Video Series from Sacramento State—Spring 2002
New Videos: Secure Your Utility and Don't Get Soaked—Fall 2014 and Winter 2014-2015
New Water on Tap Booklet—Spring 2004
New Water Plan Assessment Released—Winter 1998-99
New Water Security Guidelines Receive Public Comment—Summer 2007
92nd Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2008-09
93rd Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2009-2010
94th Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2010-2011
95th Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2011-2012
99th Annual Minnesota AWWA Conference—Winter 2015-2016
1997 Ten States’ Standards Now Available—Fall 1997
1998 Legislative Initiatives—Spring 1998
1999 Is “The Year of Safe Drinking Water”—Fall 1999
Nitrate Situation Offers Opportunity for Multi-Agency Solutions—Summer 1998
Nitrate Source Water Monitoring Beginning in 2016—Winter 2015-2016
Now That’s a Secure Water Facility—Winter 2005-06
October 29 Training on Complying with America's Water Infrastructure Act—Fall 2019
Oddibe A Water Bill—Fall 2016
On the Move—Summer 2005
One-Day School in Moorhead October 22—Fall 2020
Open Meeting Law Exemption—Fall 2004
Operator Protection and Disposal Guidelines for Spent Media or Backwash Waste Containing Radium—Summer 2019
Opt-in to be Required to Remain on Mailing List for Printed Copies of Waterline—Fall 2020
Optimal Interim Monthly Fluoride Monitoring for Municipalities Serving Fewer than 3,300—Summer 2001
Optimizing Phosphate Treatment to Minimize Lead/Copper Seasonal Variations—Winter 2004-05
Osseo Water Tower May Be Placed on Historic Register—Summer 2017
Our Latest Collaboration with the Department of Agriculture—Spring 2019
Over $75 Million in DWRF Projects Awarded to Date—Winter 1999-2000
Owatonna Students Raise Big Bucks for Water for People—Summer 2008
Paper Versions of Waterline to End—Fall 2006 and Winter 2006-07
Pass It On—Winter 2002-03
Past Waterlines Archived at wateroperator.org—Winter 2018-2019 and Spring 2019
Paul Douglas to Speak at 2015 Metro District School—Fall 2014
Pearls of Wisdom from Despair.com—Summer 2005
Perfluorochemicals Monitoring Begins with Sampling in Brooklyn Center—Summer 2009
Permanent Rules Governing Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies Adopted—Summer 2020
Peterson Succeeds Clark at MDH—Winter 2007-08
PFAS May Not Be Forever—Summer 2024
Pharmaceutical Disposal—Winter 2014-2015
Phosphate Inhibitor Treatment Tips—Spring 1997
Pipestone Presented with EPA Aquarius Award—Winter 2021-2022
Pipestone Receives EPA Aquarius Award—Spring 2021
Plan Review Enforcement—Spring 2000
Plan Review Submittal Guidance—Spring 2016
Portland Rebounds—Summer 2015
Poster Contest Brings in More than 500 Entries—Summer 2013
Poster Contest Draws More than 1,600 Entries—Summer 2016
Prepare Now for Pandemic Flu—Summer 2005
Professional Operator Development Course Set for Early 2020—Winter 2019-2020
Professional Operator Development Program Announces New Course for 2024—Winter 2023-2024
Professors Present Pertinent Pandemic Poop—Fall 2020
Promote Water Careers in Consumer Confidence Reports—Summer 2019
Promoting Education with Teachers—Winter 2008-09
Proposed Guidance for Fluoride Levels—Summer 2011
Protecting Community Water Systems—Summer 2011
Public Art Saint Paul Continues through Pandemic—Spring 2021
Public Information Committee to Produce Calendar—Winter 1999-2000
Public Review for Metropolitan Area Master Water Supply Plan—Winter 2008-09
Public Water Supply Sampling Responsibilities—Spring 2003
Publication on Dealing with Droughts Now Available On-Line—Winter 2010-2011
PVC Q & A—Summer 1998
Radium Ruling Leaves State Reeling—Summer 1998
Radium: Where Are We Now?—Winter 1999-2000
Radon Exposure in Water Treatment Plants—Winter 2003-04
Radon in Drinking Water—Winter 2000-01
Radon in Groundwater—Winter 2009-2010
Radon in Water Treatment Plants—Winter 2003-04 and Spring 2012
Radon Monitoring Survey—Summer 1999
The Radon Rule: How Will It Affect My Utility?—Spring 2000
Raising Awareness about Drinking Water—Summer 2007
Randall Gets Award from the Environmental Protection Agency—Spring 2020
Randy Ellingboe Takes Over Drinking Water Program at MDH—Fall 2008
Recognition for Safe Water—Spring 2001
Record Attendance for Management Institute—Summer 2005
Recordkeeping Requirements for Community Water Systems—Fall 2003
Red Flag Rule Related to Identity Theft Takes Effect—Winter 2008-09
Regulatory Update—Summer 2004
Remakes of Popular Tunes—Summer 2007
Renewal Notices Sent—Summer 1997
Renewal of Operator Certificates—Winter 1997-98
Renewal Reminder for Nonmunicipal Systems—Spring 1999
Report on Atrazine Completed—Spring 2010
Research Needs and MDH Support—Winter 1999-2000
Reservoir Photo Wins Award—Summer 1998
Resilience Planning and Adaptation Training for the Water Utility Sector—Summer 2019
Resources for Early Care and Education Facilities—Spring 2025
Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019—Fall 2020
Revised Operator Manual Ready—Spring 1998
Revised Radionuclides Rule—Spring 2001
Revised Total Coliform Rule—Winter 2010-2011 and Fall 2015
Rick Wahlen Honored—Spring 2023
Risk Management Rule—Winter 1998-99
Rochester Looks to Save with Conservation—Winter 2010-2011
Rochester Public Utilities Solves Messy Problem in Economical and Environmentally Friendly Way—Spring 2016
Rules Changes—Spring 2008
Rules Update: Disinfectant/Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Stage 1 and Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule—Summer 2001
Rules Update: Disinfection Byproducts and Fluoride—Summer 2002
Rules Update (Radon, Arsenic, Groundwater, Long-term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment, Revised Radiochemical)—Winter 2001-02
Rules Update: Stage 2 DBP and LT2 ESWTR—Spring 2007
SDWA Implementation Activities—Spring 1998
SDWA Reauthorization—Summer 1997
SDWA Video Being Updated—Fall 2022
SDWA Video Updated for 50th Anniversary—Winter 2023-2024
Safe Drinking Water Act Turns 30—Spring 2005
Safe Drinking Water Act Turns 40—Spring 2014
Safe Drinking Water Act Turns 50—Winter 2024-2025
Safe Drinking Water Week in Minnesota—Fall 2017
Safe Drinking Water Week Proclaimed—Fall 2013
Safety in the Air—Spring 2005
Safety Spotlight: Repetitive Motion Disorders—Summer 2001
Safety Spotlight: Walk Like a Cop—Summer 2012
Safety Training Offered—Winter 1997-1998
St. Anthony Stands Ready—Spring 2019
St. Cloud Boils—Summer 2005
St. Cloud Recognized for Source Water Protection Projects—Spring 2017
St. Cloud Sweeps Doubleheader in State Fair Taste Test—Winter 2016-2017
St. John’s Tower Gets a Cleaning—Winter 2002-03
St. Paul Breaks Ground—Winter 2003-04
St. Paul MDH Drinking Water Protection Section Contact Information—Fall 2005
St. Paul Regional Water Services Replacing Century-Old Clarifier and Basins—Fall 2022
St. Paul Wins State Fair Taste Test—Winter 2015-2016
Sakry Blue (Union Blue, that is)—Fall 2005
Sandeep Burman Named MDH Drinking Water Protection Section Manager—Winter 2018-2019
Say What?—Spring 2003
STEM Committee Receives AWWA Section Education Award—Fall 2019
STEM Promoted at Brewery Run—Spring 2019
Second Drinking Water Institute for Teachers Held in New Ulm—Fall 2002
Security and Vulnerability Assessments—Fall 2002
Security Issues—Spring 2002
Security of Water System Vulnerability Assessments from Public Disclosures—Spring 2004
September Events Demonstrate Need for Heightened Security—Winter 2001-02
Service Connection Fee Increase Takes Effect—Spring 2020
Service Connection Fee to Increase January 1, 2020—Fall 2019 and Winter 2019-2020
Serving the Good Stuff—Summer 2008
Seventh Drinking Water Institute Held—Winter 2006-07
Shady Sales of Treatment Equipment Continue—Winter 2010-2011
Shahin Rezania Appointed Head of Minneapolis Water Treatment and Distribution—Winter 2006-07
Sign Up for Groundwater Updates—Winter 2018-2019
Site Inspection for New Wells Moves to Source Water Protection—Summer 2000
Slovenija Declares Water a Human Right—Summer 2017
Small System Training Manual Now Available—Fall 2002
Small System’s Triennial Lead/Copper Due—Fall 1999
Small Utilities to Investigate Disinfection Byproducts in 2009—Spring 2009
Smithsonian Exhibit Moves to Lanesboro—Spring 2017
Smithsonian Exhibit on Water Coming to Minnesota—Spring 2016
Smithsonian Institution Water/Ways Opens in Minnesota—Fall 2016
Sniff This—Spring 2020
So Who Needs Bottled Water?—Summer 1998
The Soon-to-be Arsenic MCL—Fall 2005
Source Water Assessments Now Available on MDH Web Page—Winter 2003-04
Source Water Protection Collaborative Seeks Artist-in-Residence—Winter 2022-2023
Source Water Protection Grants Support Community Solutions to Protect Drinking Water—Winter 2020-2021
Southeast School Changing Locations—Winter 2018-2019
Speakers Wanted—Summer 1999
State Environmental Public Health Program Gets Five-year Federal Grant—Winter 2009-2010
State Fair Water Taste Test—Winter 2013-2014
Steve Robertson Takes over as Head of MDH Source Water Protection Unit—Fall 2013
Steve Schneider Succeeds Bernie Bullert at St. Paul Regional Water Services—Spring 2004
Stimulus Monday and the Drinking Water Revolving Fund—Summer 2010
Stuff Sought for Minnesota AWWA Museum—Spring 2016
Subdividing System Will Not Eliminate Community Designation—Winter 2004-05 and Winter 2006-07
Subscribe Feature for Training Calendar and Waterline Available—Winter 2004-05
Summit Brewing Company: It Starts with the Water—Summer 2018
Sun or Water? Which Is Older?—Winter 2014-2015
A Super Flush—Winter 2000-01
Surcharge Proposed for Licenses—Summer 2005
Surface Water Cryptosporidium and E. coli Monitoring - Round 2—Fall 2015
Surface-Water Optimization Training in Minnesota—Spring 2019 and Spring 2020
Survey Reveals Training Needs—Winter 2005-06
Survey Shows Little Support for Separate Distribution Certificate—Winter 1998-99
Success Stories from the Source—Summer 2024
A SWAMP-breaking in Ely—Fall 2005
Surveys Yield Valuable Information—Summer 1998
T. C. Bear Waters Up—Fall 2012
Taking Aim—Summer 2004
Target Field Back on Tap for Metro School—Winter 2013-2014
Target Field Water System Toured—Summer 2012
Taste Test at MRWA Conference—Summer 2019
Technical Instructor Seminar—Summer 2000
10 Jobs Americans Can't Live Without—Summer 2012
There's Got to Be a Better Way to Collect a Bill—Fall 2015
This Is It for the Paper Waterline—Spring 2007
These Two Cities Rock!—Summer 2015
Threats Highlight Need for Emphasis on Cybersecurity—Spring 2022
Three Minnesotans on Blue Ribbon Commission for On-Site Non-Potable Systems—Spring 2017
Time for a Drinking Water Revolving Fund Loan?—Spring 2001
Tips to Drink More Water—Summer 2015
To Systems that Chlorinate . . . —Spring 2013
Tools for Lead and Copper Community Site Plans—Summer 2024
Total Coliform Testing: Membrane Filtration vs. Colilert—Spring 1999
Training and Education Highlights (Professional Operator Development, WUTT, Drinking Water Institute, District Operator Schools, Minnesota Rural Water Association Technical Conference)—Winter 2024-2025
Trivia Time—Fall 2003
Twins Install Self-Irrigating "Living Wall" for Batter's Eye—Spring 2019
Two Teacher Institutes Set for 2005—Spring 2005
Typhoid Truelsen—Summer 2003
2000 Things to Fret About—Fall 1998
2004 Class D Study Guide Available—Fall 2004
2004 Drinking Water Institute Held in St. Cloud—Fall 2004
2013 Drinking Water Institute to be Held in Rochester—Spring 2013
2014 Drinking Water Institute to be Held in St. Paul—Spring 2014
2015 Drinking Water Institute to be Held in Minneapolis—Summer 2015
2016 Metro School: Registrations to be Capped at 240 and Advanced Treatment Technologies Workshop Scheduled for Day before Metro School—Spring 2016
2017 Drinking Water Institute Scheduled for August 7-9—Spring 2017 and Summer 2017
2018 Drinking Water Institute August 6-8—Summer 2018
Ultraviolet Technology Project First in State to Address Dioxane Contamination—Winter 2017-2018
U. S. House of Representatives Passes Chemical and Water Security Act—Spring 2010
An Understandable Mistake—Fall 2011
Understanding Your Water Test Results—Fall 1999
Universal Truths—Winter 2010-2011
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring—Spring 2001
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Project—Winter 2019-2020
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Regulations—Summer 2007
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule—Summer 2000
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule - Revision 3 Expectations—Winter 2011-2012
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 4—Summer 2017
Update on Municipal Authority to Ban Well Construction and Control Well Use—Spring 2011
Upping Our Game on Cybersecurity—Spring 2024
Urban Water Cycle Completed—Spring 2009
Urban Water Cycle Drinking Water Module Updated—Summer 2021
Useful New Videos—Spring 2019
Utilities Fight Back against Shady Sales of Treatment Equipment—Summer 2010
Vulnerability Assessment Workshops—Winter 2002-03
Vulnerability Assessment Workshops—Fall 2003
Wastewater Beer?—Fall 2021
Watching a Pro in Action—Fall 2012
Water Age and Water Quality—Summer 2008
Water Assistance Available for Eligible Households—Winter 2022-2023
Water and Baseball Stadiums—Summer 2000
Water and Sports (Baseball and Hockey)—Winter 2017-2018
Water Bar—Winter 2015-2016
Water Bar a Hit at Sauna Village—Spring 2024
Water Bar at Capitol a Highlight of Safe Drinking Water Week—Fall 2018
Water Bar Coming to the State Fair—Summer 2017
Water Bar Opens New Storefront—Spring 2018
Water Course Coming to Eden Prairie—Summer 2002
Water Education—Winter 2011-2012
Water for People—Summer 1999
Water for People Holds Benefit Concert—Fall 2009
Water for People in Guatemala—Summer 2000
Water in Demand at Minnesota United Games—Fall 2019
Water in Southeastern Minnesota—Summer 2018
The Water Is (Still) Safe According to MDH—Summer 2005
Water Matters!—Fall 2001
Water May Bring Shrimp to Luverne—Summer 2017
Water on Display at Science Centers in Minnesota—Winter 2012-2013
Water on Display at the Science Museum—Summer 2009
Water on Its Way to Worthington—Fall 2018
Water on Tap at the Minnesota State Fair—Winter 2019-2020
Water Operator Schools Back and Going Strong—Summer 2022
Water Poster Contect 2018—Summer 2018
Water Poster Contest Underway—Spring 2013
Water Publications Available—Summer 2000
Water Quality Incident? Contact the State Duty Officer—Summer 2018
Water Quality Problems in Residences—Summer 2004
Water Reuse in Minnesota—Spring 2015 and Fall 2015
Water School Scenes—Spring 2012
Water Security Channel Offers Free Advisories and Bulletins—Spring 2005
Water Storage Facility Disinfection—Winter 2002-03
Water Success Stories—Winter 2015-2016
Water System Questionnaire Results—Fall 2000
Water System Security—Summer 2002
Water System Security Workshops—Spring 2003
Water Tending School at Water Bar—Spring 2019
Water Tower Safety—Winter 2002-03
Water Towers: New, Old, and Both—Spring 2022
Water Works Park Planned for Minneapolis—Spring 2014
Water-Wastewater Utilities Treatment and Technology Program Update—Spring 2020 and Winter 2021-2022 and Spring 2022
Waterline Available On-Line—Fall 2001
Waterline: Have It Your Way—Summer 2001
Waterline Is Back in Print—Winter 2007-08
Waterline Reader Survey—Winter 2017-2018
Waterline Survey Results—Spring 2018
Waterline to End in Paper Format—Summer 2005
Waterworks Quiz—Fall 2019
WaterWorks! Success Stories—Spring 2009
We Are Water MN Visits the Capitol—Summer 2018
We Are Water Minnesota Sites Named for 2024—Spring 2024
We Are Water Minnesota Still Going Strong—Winter 2022-2023
We Are Water Minnesota Travels to Hmong Plaza in St. Paul—Summer 2021
Weekend Warrior Jodi Wallin—Summer 2009
A Welcome Water Source—Fall 2007
Wellhead Protection Is Coming—Winter 1997-98
What Are Those Spaceship-Looking Things?—Spring 2020
What Is a SMCL?—Spring 2003
What Standards Apply to Me?—Summer 2013
What's New with Lewis and Clark?—Spring 2016
When Collecting Samples, Please Remember . . . —Winter 2010-2011
When Your Water Tower Is Down (and Can't Get Enough of Water Towers?)—Winter 2023-2024
Where Are They Now?—Spring 2009
Where Are They Now?—Spring 2016
Where Is the Arsenic Rule . . . This Month?—Summer 2001
Where Is the Water in White Bear Lake?—Fall 2014
WIIN Program Offers Help for Schools and Child Cares in Reducing Lead in Water—Spring 2024
Win-Win-Win for Eden Prairie and Its Customers—Spring 2024
A Winning Water Poster—Fall 2013
Winning Water Posters—Fall 2014
Work Progresses on Minneapolis Reservoir—Summer 2000
Worth Watching: Minneapolis and St. Paul Water Treatment Videos—Spring 2022
WUTT Celebrates First Class—Fall 2021
WUTT Is Happening—Summer 2020
WUTT Is Underway—Summer 2021
WUTT's Coming Up—Fall 2020
WUTT's Rolling Along—Summer 2022
WUTT Water Treatment Plant Operations Module to Start in January—Winter 2022-2023
WUTT's Up Next—Winter 2020-2021
Y2K Resources—Winter 1998-99
Y2K Update—Winter 1999-2000

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Albany Arsenic Plant Will Also Enhance Aesthetic Qualities of Water—Winter 2006-07
Anoka Water Keeps Up with City's Growth—Summer 2023
Appleton Celebrates New Water Treatment Facility—Winter 2022-2023
Arsenic Removal Comes to Climax—Fall 2005
At Least the Food’s Good (Water Supply in Death Valley)—Spring 1995
Austin Utilities Increases Capacity to Serve Major Spam Producer—Summer 2018
Belgrade Avoids Arsenic with New Wells and Treatment Plant—Fall 2013
Bemidji Builds Treatment Plant to Remove PFAS—Summer 2022
Biological Filtration Used in New Hutchinson Plant—Spring 2007
Blaine Deals with Water Issues with New Plants—Fall 2006
Bloomington Water Supply Keeps Pace with City Growth—Fall 1998
A Bridge to Somewhere: Highway 53 Rerouting Includes Impact on Virginia Water Supply—Fall 2017
Brooklyn Park Looks to the 21st Century with Plant Expansion—Spring 1997
Buffalo Lake Treats for Arsenic—Fall 2001
Burnsville Becomes First Metro System with On-Site Hypochlorite Generation—Summer 2015
Chanhassen Enhances Aesthetics of Water and Community—Spring 2019
Clara City Joins the Membrane Wave—Winter 2003-04
Cloquet Moves Forward with Manganese Removal—Fall 2019
Cold Spring Opens First Treatment Plant in State to Treat Nitrate Biologically—Winter 2023-2024
Community Commitment Results in Innovative Water Plant in St. Martin—Spring 2018
Decommissioned Water Towers Not Forgotten—Summer 2025
Dewatering Added to Long History of Moorhead Water Treatment—Fall 2023
DWRF Funds the North Shore (Duluth and Two Harbors)—Winter 2023-2024
Drinking Water in the Northlands (International Falls and Reykjavík, Iceland)—Summer 1999
Drinking Water Institute Gets Off the Ground—Fall 2001
Dry Tortugas Live Up to Name—Spring 2005
Duluth Gets Early Funding for Lead Service Line Replacements—Winter 2024-2025
DWRF Funds the North Shore (Duluth and Two Harbors)—Winter 2023-2024
Dying for a Drink?—Fall 1999
Eagan Fills Its Plates—Spring 2013
East Bethel Spurs Development with New Water Plant—Winter 2012-2013
Eden Prairie Grows with Its Water System—Summer 2012
Eden Prairie Reservoir and Pumphouse to Replicate and Recognize History—Summer 2019
Eden Prairie Tower Meets Needs, Provides Highlight to Downtown Area—Summer 1997
Ethanol Production Dependent on Water—Summer 2006
Fairmont Getting New Water Treatment Plant—Winter 2011-2012
Freeborn and Hartland Collaborate for Shared Water System—Summer 2019
From Tall to Taller: Minnetonka Raises a Tower—Summer 2005
Gary Englund Remembers—Fall 2024
Getting the Salt Out on San Juan Island—Winter 2001-02
Great Lakes Aquarium Open for Business—Summer 2001
Guess What’s in Their Water? (Newfoundland)—Spring 2003
Haiti Outreach Promotes Water Independence—Winter 2014-2015
Hastings Removes Nitrate with New Plant—Summer 2011
Hennepin History Museum Celebrates 1983 Circle of Water Circus Tour—Fall 2024
Historic St. Paul Ballpark Leads to Information on Early Water Supply in City—Winter 2018-2019
Joint Powers Water Board Brings Aquifer Storage Technology to Minnesota—Spring 2009
Keeping Up With Growth—Spring 2004
Kinney Secession: Effective but No Longer Necessary—Fall 2021
LaCrescent Plant Knocks Down Radium—Summer 2009
Lambert Creek Gets a Diversion—Summer 2004
Lewis and Clark Regional Water System Nearly Complete in Minnesota—Winter 2018-2019
Lincoln-Pipestone Tackles Nitrate with New Reverse-Osmosis Plant—Spring 2000
Little Falls Continues Implementation of Wellhead Protection Plan—Spring 2014
A Look at Bottled Water—Spring 2014
A Look at the Other End—Fall 2018
Madison Leads the Way—Spring 1999
Mankato Moves Ahead with Membranes—Spring 2011
Marshall Increases Capacity, Meets Demand with New Treatment Plant—Winter 2000-01
Meeting the Need with Rural Water—Summer 1996
Meeting the Needs Down Under—Summer 2002
Metro Transit Helps Saints Save Water in New Ballpark—Fall 2015
Minneapolis Distribution Crews Maintain Critical Infrastructure—Fall 2011
Minneapolis Increases Capacity—Spring 1998
Minneapolis Landscape Arboretum Combines Beauty and Brainpower—Summer 2014
Minneapolis Ready for Ultrafiltration—Spring 2005
Minneapolis Theater Focuses on Water in Series of Performances—Summer 2007 and Winter 2007-08
Minneapolis Uses Microtunneling for Water Main below the Mississippi River—Winter 2020-2021
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Combines Beauty and Brainpower—Summer 2014
Minnesota Twins Focus on Water Sustainability at Target Field—Fall 2010
Mora Does More with Less—Winter 2013-2014
New Brighton Cleans Up—Summer 2003
New Brighton Keeps on Pumping—Winter 2019-2020
New Brighton Still Facing, Overcoming Water Challenges—Winter 2016-2017
New Burnsville Plant Will Use Excess Quarry Water—Fall 2008
New Chaska Plant Nears Completion—Summer 2004
New Plant Helps Waterville Live Up to Name—Spring 2004
New Treatment Plant Makes Good Water Even Better on Nagaajiwanaang—Summer 2024
New Ulm Treatment Plant Provides the Main Ingredient for Schell’s Beer/Schell’s Starts with the Water—Summer 2013
New Water Plant among Upgrades at Sandstone Correctional Institution—Winter 2005-06
Non-Municipal Systems Are Many and Varied—Winter 1996-97
Northfield Gears Up for More Business—Spring 2001
Notable St. Paul Reservoir Being Demolished and Replaced—Summer 2010
Oakdale and 3M Work Together to Remove Perfluorochemicals—Spring 2010
Owatonna Survives 2010 Flood, Raises Wells to Head Off Future Floods—Spring 2012
Pipestone Cashes In by Solving Wastewater Problem with Drinking Water—Fall 2022
Plate Settlers Clean Up Ortonville Water—Winter 2017-2018
Public Art St. Paul Promotes Water Awareness—Fall 2014
Pumphouses Designed for Function as Well as Attractiveness—Summer 2000
The Purest Water in Minnesota—Spring 2002
Real Northern Exposure (Barrow, Alaska)—Winter 1993-94
Red Wing Plants Serve Water across Varying Elevations—Fall 2008
Red Wing Residents Learn Job Skills while Maintaining Water System—Fall 2007 and Spring 2008
Removing Arsenic in Hector—Winter 1998-99
Renovation Nearly Complete on Minneapolis’ “Temple of Doom”—Fall 1993
Robbinsdale Drinking Water Plant Looks to the Future—Spring 2023
Rushford Responds to Flash Flood that Submerges City and Knocks Out Utilities—Summer 2008
Sabin to Get Demonstration Plant for Arsenic Reduction—Fall 2004
- Protecting Sabin’s Source: The Buffalo Aquifer (sidebar)—Fall 2004
St. Joseph Water Plant Provides Pulchritude on the Prairie—Winter 2008-09
St. Louis Park Water Supply Remains Reliable Despite Challenges—Summer 2014
Saint Peter Adds Reverse Osmosis as Part of Expansion and Upgrade—Summer 2011
Scandia Draws on Its Roots with Reconstruction of Water Tower Barn—Fall 2023
Serving Sydney: Meeting the Needs Down Under—Summer 2002
Shoreview Thrives with New Water Treatment Plant—Summer 2017
Southern Minnesota Cities Turn to Innovative Methods: New Ulm and Lafayette—Winter 2019-2020
Staples Sticks with Softening—Winter 2004-05
Started by a Mistake, Educational Programs Still Pay Off in Detroit Lakes—Fall 2002
Sustainability Key to Rochester Water—Summer 2018
SWAMP Provides Training, Networking Experiences in Unique Setting—Spring 2006
Swede Hollow Continues Immigrant Tradition with a Focus on Water—Winter 2001-02
Tackling the Challenges of a Region: Rural Water Works to Serve Those Who Need Water—Winter 2002-03
- On by Pressure, Off by Flow (sidebar)—Winter 2002-2003
Taking Control of Its Water Destiny—Summer 1999
Taking on Surface Sources (Mankato)—Winter 1995-96
Collector Wells Named after Iowa Engineer (sidebar)—Winter 1995-96
Teamwork Pays Off with Rich Prairie Project—Winter 1997-98
Teaching the Trade—Fall 2003
Thetta Kemur Allt Med Kalda Vatninu—Summer 1999
Towers Serve as Identifiers, Reminders, Landmarks—Summer 1997
Where Are We?!!? (sidebar)—Summer 1997
Virginia Gets an Upgrade—Winter 1999-2000
Waite Park Uses Air Strippers to Restore “Lots and Lots” of Good Water—Winter 2009-2010
Water Supply across the USA (New York City and Arizona)—Summer 1998
Water Supply Elsewhere: Yosemite Reservoir Provides Water to California’s Bay Area—Spring 2003
The Water that Grew with the Great Northwest—Summer 2013
Water Voyage—Winter 1998-99
Wild Rink Starts with St. Paul Water—Spring 2020
Winona Water Works Replaces Pressure Filters—Fall 2000
Woodbury Removing PFAS from Drinking Water with Temporary Treatment Facility and Moving Forward with Plans for Permanent Plant—Winter 2022-2023
Worst of Times Brings Out Best in People: Minnesota Water Operators Respond to the Floods of 1997—Fall 1997
Worthington Explores Lewis and Clark—Spring 1996

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