Backflow prevention devices can help solve that, said Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue University. The ...

As wildfires grow more frequent and intense with climate change, and become a greater threat to cities, water utilities are ...

Pumps are needed to refill high-elevation tanks to maintain water pressure. “I thought, after the Thomas fire, all water districts would put in backup generators,” Bennett said. But that was ...

water pumps can go dead, locking firefighters out of desperately needed water if a fire erupts. Assemblymember Steve Bennett aims to prevent that by mandating backup generators and other upgrades.

In November, a 5,000-gallon heli-hydrant in San Diego County was tapped nearly 30 times by aircraft fighting ... had generators on critical water infrastructure during the Marshall Fire, but ...

However, these systems are not designed to serve as the primary resource for wildfires, especially fighting large ... as a single large structure fire. No local water system can single-handedly ...

The announcement last month of a cease-fire dangles ... to power the generators that pump the wells in Gaza City. My visit with Bardawil this past fall coincided with Cairo Water Week, a yearly ...

Help in fighting ... portable generators at its facilities, in case power is lost due to fire damage or a public safety power shutoff by Southern California Edison. “We want to make sure that we have ...