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How to Improve Your Water Pressure

If you feel like like you’re not getting enough water pressure, here are a couple suggestions for how you can try to improve it.

Why I Don’t Drink Budweiser…and Why I’m Not Alone

Budweiser has always been far more about marketing than beer. The founder of Anheuser Busch, Adolphus Busch, refused to drink his own brew, calling it “that slop” (he was German, of cou…

See what researchers found when they tested a bottle of Fiji Water against a glass of tap water.

Reality Check: Have water companies cut leaks by a third?

Consumers are being asked not to waste water, but how much do water companies waste through leakage?

Why I'm Considering Electric Utilities For My Portfolio

Electric utilities are one of my preferred investment choices. Read why I decided to trade AEP and BKH at current price range and build starter position in them.

Is Natural Gas the Answer for Electric Utilities?

Electric utilities have turned to natural gas for electricity generation because of its low prices and because of onerous regulations...

Electric Utilities Weak at Inspecting Power Lines?

For electric utilities, inspecting power lines is critical. The inspections serve many purposes, from safety to reliability, and they help optimize utility tree trimming activities and other vegetation control techniques to maximize the chance that wires will stay intact even during a massive storm. According to PennEnergy, many utilities do a poor job of inspecting […]

Labour vows to fix ‘broken system’ letting water companies dump sewage

Exclusive: Opposition promises tougher laws and higher fines, as outrage builds over river pollution

Why Off-Grid Living Could Hurt Electric Utilities

The trend of off-grid living is growing. The problem for electric utilities is the impact it will have on demand, revenue and reliability.

How Market Power Gives Electric Utilities Political Power

In the pathway to 100% renewable energy lie electric utilities. Since the time of electrification until the 1990s, every electric utility was a monopoly -- it owned everything to deliver electricity from the power plants (and sometimes even the coal mines) to the transmission lines to the substations to the distribution lines to the meter on your home or business. With a market monopoly, utilities have enormous political power to promote or avoid change

Too Many Electric Utilities Risk Obsolescence If They Don’t Modernize

Electric utilities must use customer data more creatively and employ new technologies more widely if they want to stay relevant.

Flood, heat, storm? No matter. Electric utilities can keep power flowing

To face extreme weather, electric utilities rely on modern advanced network management systems. It helps reduce power outage duration and localize faults.

Clean and Safe Water When We Need It, America's Water Companies

Learn more about how America's water companies deliver safe, clean, and reliable water to your community when you need it.

How Will EVs Affect Electric Utilities?

The culture shock of EVs is over – most prospective customers grant that EVs are a viable alternative to gas-powered vehicles – but the sticker shock is not.

Time To Short Your Electric Utility?

Fitch analyst suggests that efficiency and distributed solar will soon exert significant financial pressure on utilities. The need for an intelligent regulatory conversation becomes increasingly urgent.

CERES Report Reveals Which Electric Utilities Recognize the Clean Energy Future We Need

Electric utilities tend to take a lot of heat for clouding public understanding of climate change and standing in the way of energy resources that won’t cook the planet.

Resources Available to Electric Utilities on Cybersecurity, But Many Concerns Remain

A panel of experts said the nation's electric utilities have resources at their disposal to fight cyber threats, but concerns remain over how much training their personnel receive and whether the Trump administration could issue an executive order to help bolster cybersecurity.

Find Out the Truth about Water Companies

An educational campaign to provide facts about the water industry and correct the record on water companies.

From uranium pollution to a broken well, small water companies need help 

A half-million-dollar appropriation could help small, struggling water companies throughout the ...