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		<title>America&#8217;s infrastructure flunks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the news of the economy and America&#8217;s other woes weren&#8217;t bleak enough, today came word from the American Society of Civil Engineers that the country&#8217;s infrastructure report card shows a cumulative ranking of D. While there are many factors that go into compiling the grades and there are some who dispute the grading system, it&#8217;s fair to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=217&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would you sing for safe water?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karaoke usually evokes images of wanna-be lounge singers belting out their version of &#8220;I Did It My Way.&#8221;  But in Cambodia, karaoke is being used to educate citizens about the dangers of drinking untested well water.  A story this morning on National Public Radio told of how villagers are &#8220;learning about safe drinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=213&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answering the Call of Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our 24/7, always connected world &#8211; how would we carry on without cell phones and PDAs? But what happens if the call comes when you&#8217;re answering the call of nature? National Public Radio recently explored the topic of a certain kind of  dropped calls, the ones that get dropped in the toilet that is. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=207&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure projects and economic stimulus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Obama announced last week that part of his economic stimulus plan will hinge on a massive infrastructure building program. It would reportedly be the largest public works program since President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the federal interstate system in the 1950s. Specifically the proposed Obama government spending program will include a renewed effort to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=201&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Astronauts make drinking &#8220;wastewater&#8221; cool?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your job were on the international Space Station, you could look forward after a hard day of space walks to enjoying a nice refreshing glass of your own recycled urine.  That&#8217;s the theory anyway, and NASA is working hard to get the technology right.  A recent article in the Los Angeles Times details the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=194&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drought? What Drought?</title>
		<link>http://jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/drought-what-drought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the opening line in a recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlighting what a difference a year makes in news coverage. While the drought was on everyone&#8217;s minds last year, this year attention turned to the election, gas prices, and the economy. Still Lake Lanier is 18 feet below full pool and according [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=183&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving dinner? Fats, Oil and Grease!</title>
		<link>http://jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/thanksgiving-dinner-fats-oil-and-grease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says Thanksgiving dinner like turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce, and all the fixin&#8217;s.  But nothing defines the aftermath of Thanksgiving for wastewater professionals more than the unwelcome backups caused from excessive fats, oil and grease dumped down the drain by households across the community.  While cooking grease poured into kitchen sink drains is a problem year-round, many wastewater agencies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=175&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get a Tax Break and Save on Your Water Bill</title>
		<link>http://jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/get-a-tax-break-and-save-on-your-water-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With gas shortages in pockets of the Southeast (particularly north Georgia) and grim economic news from Wall Street and Washington, many poeple may not have heard or may have forgotten that another sales tax holiday is rapidly approaching for Georgia. And for the first time products that help conserve water are being included in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=169&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government not immune to bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/government-not-immune-to-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the news highlights daily, risky borrowing and creative financing are leaving many American families struggling to keep their heads above water.  As if to add insult to injury, those same woes are now impacting local governments.  A report in The New York Times this week indicates that Jefferson County, Alabama, population 662,047, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com&blog=3128525&post=154&subd=jjgwatercooler&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Atlanta the water hog it&#8217;s portrayed to be?</title>
		<link>http://jjgwatercooler.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/is-atlanta-the-water-hog-its-portrayed-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An August 25th editorial in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution takes issue with what the editorial writer indicates are claims from Florida and Alabama that &#8220;big, bad overdeveloped metro Atlanta is sucking up all the water out of the Chattahoochee watershed, leaving little or none for downstream mussels, oysters, farmers, power plants and those all-important barge operators.&#8221; 
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