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researching and organizing information surrounding kitchen and bath products,
services and industry news ...
In
recognition of National Childhood Injury Protection Week, Sept. 1 -7, Benjamin
Franklin Plumbing is offering advice to parents on how to prevent their children
from getting hot water burns ...
Manufacturers
are exploring ways to address California AB 1953, which limits the weighted
average lead content in pipe, fittings and fixtures used to convey drinking
water to 0.25 percent on wetted surfaces ...
During the IAPMO and
World Plumbing Council’s Emerging Technology Symposium, presenters said the
combined annual water savings of these products, at just 5% market penetration, is more than 200 billion
gallons ...
With the housing market in the
doldrums and inflation running at a pace unseen in nearly two decades,
consumers are not buying new homes. Instead they are focusing on repairs ...
Through its partnership with the U.S. EPA’s WaterSense
program, PHCC is urging that properly qualified plumbing professionals be
required during the construction of single-family homes that will display EPA
WaterSense labels ...
Hansgrohe recently attempted to set a new
Guinness World Record for the “Most People Showering Simultaneously” at its
Showerworld facility in Alpharetta, GA ...
As part of its efforts to encourage water efficiency across
the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that five
builders will participate in the Water-Efficient Single-Family New Homes Pilot
Program ...
The
National Association of Home Builders expressed its strong disappointment with
a recently published standard on workforce safety that the association says has
been deemed ineffective and unworkable by the residential and commercial
construction industry ...
Restaurant owners are asking town officials for more time to
install costly grease-trap systems required under a new regulation meant to
prevent municipal sewers from clogging and deteriorating ...
Two Pennsylvania Amish men have been
convicted of illegally dumping sewage from outhouses at the Amish sect’s
schoolhouse and not having a permitted sewage disposal system ...
The
restrooms, installed in early 2004, have become so filthy and overrun with illegal
activity that, although use was free, even some of the city’s most destitute
people refused to step inside them ...
Designers of the Orion space capsule have to solve a
pressing issue of waste removal in space as astronauts work on the moon, so
they’re asking for employee samples …
As they
grapple with skyrocketing energy costs, more homeowners are turning to
remodelers for energy-saving solutions, according to the NAHB’s quarterly
Remodeling Market Index …
Southern
India residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals,
a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas
...
Plumbing and HVAC equipment is being purchased online at
very low prices from the Department of Defense’s exclusive surplus contractor,
Government Liquidation …
In
Tokyo and Paris, you can now spend $5 a glass on special beverages selected by
a professional sommelier. Nothing surprising there, except the beverages being
served are different brands of bottled water …
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