Aqua Pennsylvania Celebrates National Drinking Water Week, May 2-8.Energy Editors/Business Editors BRYN MAWR Bryn Mawr (brĭn mär), uninc. town (1990 est. pop. 10,000), Montgomery co., SE Pa., a residential suburb of Philadelphia. It is the seat of Bryn Mawr College (for women), opened in 1885 by the Society of Friends. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2004 Next week, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., the American Water Works Association American Water Works Association (AWWA) is an international nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply. It was founded in 1881 and, as of 2007, there are approximately 60,000 AWWA members world-wide. (AWWA AWWA American Water Works Association AWWA Army Wives Welfare Association (India) AWWA Australian Water and Wastewater Association ), and water utilities across the nation will kick off National Drinking Water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. Week, a celebration of our country's most precious natural resource. "National Drinking Water Week is the perfect opportunity for us to educate our customers on the value of clean drinking water," said company President Karl Kyriss. "Our hope is that with the help of the media, we can shed additional light on the importance of drinking water, which is only utility product that we actually ingest in·gest tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. and without which you cannot live." Kyriss said that Aqua Pennsylvania is willing to do its part by making the company available for stories that will help highlight some of the important work that takes place every day to ensure the reliable delivery of more than 120 million gallons of quality water to more than one million residents throughout Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Bucks counties every day. Below are some story ideas from Aqua Pennsylvania: -- Watershed Protection The term watershed refers to an area of land that drains precipitation that falls on it to a common point. These points could be streams, lakes, etc. Precipitatoin falling on any part of a watershed can travel quickly on the surface of the land, known as surface runoff, or travel through . Aqua Pennsylvania's environmental specialists trek miles of watershed daily to help protect its source waters. Equipped with test meters, fishing boots, kick nets and Kemmerer Samplers and other paraphernalia PARAPHERNALIA. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her husband's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life. , the environmental specialists maintain an intimate knowledge of the streams and their aquatic inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . -- Water quality testing. Aqua Pennsylvania is one of a select few water utilities that has its own state-certified testing laboratory and a sophisticated research laboratory that conducts studies in taste and odor, and other important water quality issues. Tour our laboratory and witness some of the 267,000 analyses that our chemists and microbiologists conduct on more than 50,000 water samples each year. -- Infrastructure Improvements. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. water systems need about $150 billion in repairs to pipes, tanks, valves and treatment plants over the next 20 years to provide customers with clean, and reliable service. This year Aqua Pennsylvania will spend $100 million this year on infrastructure improvements. Watch as crews complete one of the company's largest main replacement projects this year: the replacement of 9,500 feet of eight-inch cement pipe, circa 1910, on Lancaster Avenue in Delaware and Montgomery counties with new 12-inch ductile iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies. pipe in southeastern Pennsylvania. -- Distribution System Maintenance. Join an Aqua Pennsylvania maintenance crew and experience first-hand what it's like to locate and repair a broken water main. Did you know that workers use special instruments to listen for the sound of leaking water to pinpoint the location of main breaks and other non-surfacing leaks? Help a crew install a fire hydrant or exchange a pipe valve. -- Fire hydrant maintenance. Join an Aqua Pennsylvania distribution operator as he tests a fire hydrant for proper operation. Did you know that fire hydrants are owned and maintained by the water company? Aqua Pennsylvania has more than 18,000 fire hydrants throughout its service territory. Facts About Water -- Of all the earth's water, 97 percent is salt water found in oceans and seas. -- Only one percent of the earth's water is available for drinking water. Two percent is currently frozen. -- About two thirds of the human body is water. Some parts of the body contain more water than others. For example, 70 percent of your skin is water. -- There are more than 56,000 community water systems providing water to the public in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . -- Approximately one million miles of pipelines and aqueducts carry water in the United States and Canada. That's enough to circle the earth 40 times. Aqua Pennsylvania serves more than 1.3 million residents in 23 counties throughout Southeastern, Northern, Central and Western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pittsburgh is the largest city in the region, with a metropolitan area of about 2.4 million people, and is the cultural center for Western Pennsylvania. . Editors' Note: Stories can be arranged at Aqua Pennsylvania properties throughout the state through the contacts listed on this news release. |
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