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