Wise Water Words - Volume 52, Issue 1 (Spring 2015)
A word from the editor
There is much to read in this edition of Wise Water Words, including Doug Woodbeck's thoughts as he gets underway as our section chair and John Olsson's comments to the opening session of the Fall Conference. We have much to hear from the committees, including fundraising successes for Water for People, efforts to educate Federal lawmakers, and plans for a new SDWA training session for small systems coming up in May.Membership is doing very well, and we can be especially proud of individual members like Kevin Tobin, our 2014 Fuller Award honoree. Our section continues to reach out to the public at large on water issues, from our growing poster contest for children to recognition for the best-tasting water in the state. Please stay tuned to the legislative issues highlighted by our Water Utility Council to monitor the progress of laws and proposals that may affect our industry. Those have and will continue to include matters like nitrates, on which David Lathrop has submitted some observations -- and as we all know, the coming year could bring anything from drought to flooding. We encourage you to use our section resources, including committee support for education and training, our social-media groups on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as our e-mail distribution list. Membership participation and support are central to everything we do as a section.
With this issue, we are resuming regular printed publication of Wise Water Words. I sincerely appreciate the patience of the board and membership as the Publications Committee has navigated a number of challenges (the most significant, of course, being the unexpected cancellation of our arrangement with the national AWWA office to provide the layout, printing, and distribution of this publication). I would like to personally thank our board liaison Mary Poe for her help navigating these new circumstances and JEO Consulting Group for stepping in to provide much-needed support with graphic design and layout.
As previously discussed, we have shifted to publishing everything for Wise Water Words first on the website at awwaneb.org/words, with the printed publication to follow. Please check the section website regularly for updates, or follow one of our social-media feeds for periodic updates on new articles and additions. And please encourage your colleagues to subscribe to our e-mail distribution list, even if they're not AWWA members (yet). If you have comments regarding any of our publications work, please send your comments to the committee at publications@awwaneb.org, or to me personally at brian@gongol.net. As always, thank you for your work to deliver safe and sustainable water for Nebraska.
