The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) recently announced the appointment of Chief Executive Officer Kevin McCray, CAE, to the federal Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC).

New efficiency standards that take effect next year will directly impact vertical hollow-shaft and other electric motors that are used to pump water in the majority of the nation’s irrigation systems.

For many professionals, including water well drillers, “policy involvement” sounds complicated and time consuming.

Robert Carvalho, co-owner of Hanford, Calif.-based West Valley Drilling, started drilling water wells in the mid ‘80s and says he gave up the gig after just three or four years.

April event shows how state groups, others can organize quality events.

Cartwright has been in the treatment side of the water industry since 1974.

The event will focus on mud rotary drilling utilizing a solids control unit.

Applications are being accepted now through until June 30.

Ferre is a professor in the University of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Water Resources.