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Municipal Water Leader is dedicated to the men and woman providing water to consumers and businesses across the United States. Our interviews with municipal water managers and personnel; supplier representatives; and leading local, state, and federal government officials distill the issues of the day and offer real-world perspectives and insight.
Volume 12 Issue 4 April
Everyone involved in desalination knows that energy costs and brine disposal are among the process’s top challenges. But what if those issues could be solved? That is the promise of OceanWell’s…
Volume 12 Issue 3 March
In this month’s cover story, we interview the impressive Cheryl Porter, who serves both as the chief operating officer for water and field services of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA)…
Volume 12 Issue 2 February
The Fryingpan-Arkansas (Fry-Ark) Project is the sort of impressive infrastructure project, built on a heroic scale, for which the Bureau of Reclamation is so well known. Bringing water…
Volume 12 Issue 1 January
Andrea Huizar Beymer has been the chief operational officer of the San Antonio Water System (SAWS), one of the nation’s largest utilities, since 2023. In this month’s cover story,..
Volume 11 Issue 10 Nov/Dec
Imagine a trenchless pipe installation with segments of steel pipe being pushed into a tunnel, one by one. Now imagine that the path of that tunnel actually curves in order to avoid an…
Volume 11 Issue 9 October
In this month’s cover story, Municipal Water Leader Contributing Editor Jeff Kightlinger interviews Dan Denham, a San Diego native with long experience who is the new general manager of the San…
Volume 11 Issue 8 September
While we often feature water professionals from the American West, this month we start out with a top water leader from the East Coast: DC Water’s David Gadis. He tells us about several significant…
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