ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Retired professional mechanical engineer Mike Higgins, 75, recently sent the city of St. Petersburg a letter with ideas on how to redesign backflow preventers to make them more ...

The City of Great Bend Utilities Department is reminding customers about the importance of backflow prevention devices and ...

Backflow prevention is a critical but often overlooked responsibility for businesses operating in Texas. Whether you run a restaurant, medical facility, manufacturing plant, office building, or retail ...

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Nothing says “happy holidays” like a mandated backflow prevention device. In late November the city of St. Helena sent letters to 23 water customers giving them 60 days to install the devices, which ...

The Nashville Town Council is scheduled to discuss Wednesday whether to reimburse business owners and residents who, at the direction of the town’s staff, needlessly had backflow prevention valves ...

What just happened? USB testing devices are now widely available at nearly every price point. A Luxembourg-based engineer decided to take things a step further, creating a high-end tester that packs a ...

Sonoma Water, the county agency that provides drinking water to 600,000 residents in the North Bay, cautions all water uses about how to avoid contaminating our water supply. Ensuring the safety of ...

Watts recently conducted a national survey of more than 1,000 single-family homeowners on public water systems to assess consumer awareness of backflow prevention. The results reveal a major knowledge ...

A team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers has developed a portable device capable of detecting rare genetic mutations from a single drop of blood. The instrument, described in a study ...

Municipal water remains safe to drink, the city said Friday, clarifying an early notification about testing of the system’s backflow devices that was sent out to residents. By law, the city must test ...