Florida Rural Water Association
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Tallahassee FL 32309
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Just two more sessions remain in the 2020 Focus on Change Sessions.
Next week we travel to
Panama City
and
Lake City
to close out this year's series. FRWA partnered with the Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to present a session in Haines City on Tuesday and another in Ocala on Wednesday of this week. With record breaking attendence at each session, this series of sessions are proving to be the largest in the thirty year history of Focus on Change.
We have over 1,000 attendee attend thus far at the four previous locations. It is still not too late to attend, just click on one of the locations below to register.
FDEP Plant Excellence Awards
Each year the FDEP Districts presents the Plant Excellence Awards to deserving systems in their district at Focus on Change. FRWA would like to congratulate this year's winners. Please click on the link to access a photo of the recipient.
Central District
Join us as close out the 2020 Focus on Change Sessions in Panama City and Lake City next week.
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This Week in Water History
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February 2, 1918: Municipal Journalarticle. To Complete Water-Waste Survey. Buffalo, N. Y.-On the recommendation of commissioner Kreinheder council has authorized a complete survey of the city's water waste at a cost of about $44,000. The Pitometer Company of New York is to do .the work along the plans followed by it in a partial survey made some time ago. George C. Andrews, water commissioner, estimates that the survey will result in an annual saving of $80,000 in coal bills and of about $40,000 in wages. The city has been divided into ten districts for the purposes of this survey, one of which has been covered. Two others will be completed in the spring.
Commentary: Founded in 1897, the Pitometer Company (Associates) was in business for 99 years and helped cities save untold billions of gallons of water. In 1996, Severn Trent Environmental Services, Inc. acquired Pitometer Associates, Inc.
Reference: Municipal Journal. 1918. 46:5(February 2, 1918): 98.
For more articles on what went on this week in water history, click here.
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