The Keith E. Anderson Award recognizes outstanding contributions to NGWA and the groundwater industry.

The award will be presented at the 2015 Groundwater Expo in Las Vegas.

For much of the drilling industry, continuing education is nothing more than a requirement that is more dreaded than anticipated and more boring than fun.

The M. King Hubbert Award honors those who’ve made major science contributions to the knowledge of groundwater.

The National Ground Water Association has named the winner of the Ross L. Oliver Award.

Alloy Machine Works Inc. president and CEO has been chosen to receive the award.

In my travels I find that many businesses today are owned by a person or persons that know nothing about the business they own. Some own several businesses and in many cases these people attempt to micromanage a business that they know nothing about.

Got a call from a driller I had met on Facebook, and we had discussed jobs for quite a while. He said he had an irrigation well that was pumping sand, and had been doing it for a while.

As I wrote in my last column, the pitless adapter is a rather simple but important device used to complete a modern well. All of these have a way of keeping pumped water below the freezing point or frost line.

George Bailey, vice president of Industrial Test Systems Inc., is very familiar with water quality testing and the significance it holds. Just because private water sources aren’t regulated the way public sources are doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be tested regularly and proficiently.