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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Kris Frieswick- The Wall Street Journal September 11, 2025 CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ashley Avenue, the street where Denise and John Matthews own a home, floods so frequently that it’s earned a nickname among locals: Lake Ashley.  To make matters worse, local “yahoos” and “idiots” drive at top speed through the flooded streets, sometimes towing… >> Read More