In years gone by, my father and I sold a number of cartridge-type filters to customers who had rusty water. After several years, we began to investigate other types of filters that would work on ferric or visible iron.

Clean, safe groundwater is one of our most valuable and essential resources on this planet. It is the duty of groundwater professionals to protect this valuable resource for future generations.

Only the cleanest of intake habits can assure an engine's long and healthy life.

Selecting or sizing the groundwater well pump is a critical step in the well construction process. Consider well yield and household needs.

Every profession, especially a niche field like drilling, has tricks or jargon that everyone assumes everyone else knows. But, if you missed it during training, specialty knowledge veers quickly into "too embarrassed to ask" territory.

The driller has to not only find and identify the producing formations, he also has to minimize damage to the formation.

Looking at a water map of the U.S. recently, I noticed that most of the Great Lakes states — which include Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, plus the non-Great Lakes state of Iowa — all have groundwater that is classified as very hard.

Every time no one got hurt, but someone could have, it puts us closer to the time somebody does get hurt.

Geothermal helps all of us in this industry. Even if you do not get involved in geothermal work, you might get water jobs because your competition is tied up on a geothermal project.

There's undeniably a crisis affecting large swaths of the U.S., and a lot of urban and suburban Americans don't see it.