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#38 A conversation with 2 Big Pipe Subject Matter Experts; Mike James ISCO Industries VP and Matthew Danysh AGRU Americas Technical Engineer

Episode #38

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Who We Are

The Alliance for PE Pipe is devoted to sharing the features and benefits of smooth walled pressure pipe to benefit the municipal water and wastewater industry. The Alliance conducts roadshow events and seminars, publishes articles and assists engineers and municipalities as they plan HDPE projects.

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Why HDPE Pipe?

HDPE Pipe is leak-free, tough, flexible, fully-restrained, and cost competitive. Plus, it’s great for trenchless applications. Any one of these attributes makes it a winner, but combined, these features make HDPE pipe THE responsible infrastructure choice of the future.

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Events

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PEA Mission Project - Peru

June 29, 2026    
12:00 am EDT
WANT TO VISIT PERU? The PE Alliance is sponsoring this event. WL Plastics, McElroy, ISCO and Integrity Fusion have all contributed to it in a [...]

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The Alliance for PE Pipe is establishing an PE Professionals Program to formally assemble all of the proven resources and knowledge of expert volunteers within the industry to train and certify individuals to expand the Alliance’s goal of developing the municipal water market. These individuals will work through a dedicated educational program to learn all facets of the HDPE market and prove their knowledge to a board of HDPE experts to earn a certification in the Qualified PE Professionals Program.

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News

Brown grass cost a famed golf course a big tournament and highlighted Hawaii water problems

November 29, 2025

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, APnews.com November 29, 2025 HONOLULU (AP) — High up on the slopes of the west Maui mountains, the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort provides golfers with expansive ocean views. The course is so renowned that The Sentry, a $20 million signature event for the PGA Tour, had been held there nearly every… >> Read More

Joliet’s Highest Paid Employees Over $200,000: Water Department Foreman Drew $63,000 In Overtime Pay

November 17, 2025

By John Ferak, Patch Staff, Patch.com November 17, 2025 JOLIET, IL — One of Joliet’s highest paid employees continues to be Terry Juricic, a maintenance foreman in the water department of the city’s public utilities division, a Joliet Patch public salary analysis shows. Last year, Juricic made $202,484 and his overtime compensation for 2024 was more than… >> Read More

Taps run dry as water crisis forces Iran to consider evacuating its capital

November 16, 2025

By Amin Khodadadi, Evan Bush and Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBCNews.com November 16, 2025 TEHRAN, Iran — A drastic new message adorns the walls of the Iranian capital, usually reserved for war heroes and weapons. “There is a water shortage!” reads the government poster’s slogan, inside a water container that is nearly empty. “It’s fall and there… >> Read More

Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran

November 10, 2025

By Parham Ghobadi, BBC Persian November 9, 2025 Iran – especially its capital, Tehran – is facing an unprecedented drought this autumn, with rainfall at record lows and reservoirs nearly empty. Officials are pleading with citizens to conserve water as the crisis deepens. President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that if there is not enough rainfall… >> Read More

Great News from the HDPE Pipe Industry

October 29, 2025

October 28, 2025 It has been an active month for the PE Pipe industry with several members conducting openings of new facilities. So what has been going on? Core & Main opened a new fabrication warehouse for HDPE fittings this past week just north of Madison in the great state of Wisconsin. In Dave Mosier’s… >> Read More

Texas voters have final say on $20 billion package to secure state’s water supply

October 20, 2025

By Alejandra Martinez – The Texas Tribune September 20, 2025 LONGVIEW — In this part of Texas, residents stock up on bottled water in between boil notices. It’s part of life in a place where water pipes are old, corroded and falling apart. In the High Plains, near Lubbock, farmers worry that their groundwater wells… >> Read More

This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.

October 12, 2025

By Benoît Morenne – The Wall Street Journal September 15, 2025 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—South Texas lured Tesla, along with Exxon Mobil and other energy behemoths, with the promise of land, cheap energy and, perhaps most critically, abundant water. The companies spent billions of dollars over the past two decades building plants that use huge amounts of water to… >> Read More

The cloud needs water: How big tech’s data centers are fueling the global water crisis

September 15, 2025

By Aria Patel – The Times of Innovations September 15, 2025 The Cloud Needs Water: How Big Tech’s Data Centers Are Fueling the Global Water Crisis Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s push to create data centers in some of the world’s driest regions is exacerbating water scarcity issues globally. While the cloud is often portrayed as… >> Read More