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