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- North Anson’s Carrabec students pledge to reduce waste from plastic bottles, help environment (1/18/14)
Students at Carrabec High School in North Anson took a pledge to stop buying plastic water bottles and reduce waste at their school.
- Orono-Veazie Water District consumers raise concerns about potential carcinogen (12/16/13)
ORONO — The Orono-Veazie Water District has reduced the levels of a disinfection byproduct linked to cancer and other health problems, but a small, vocal group of consumers from Veazie is calling for it to do more.
- Passamaquoddys plan water-bottling plant (12/2/13)
The Passamaquoddy tribe hopes to allay unemployment on its land by building a 123,000-square-foot water-bottling plant to sell water to customers outside tribal lands.
- Wider view needed to approach water company needs (Journal Tribune, York County, ME 11/9/13)
YORK COUNTY, ME - This newspaper shares a birth year with the facility that provides water for the Biddeford-Saco area: 1884. And while a newspaper’s advanced age adds to its prestige and standing in the community, that’s not quite the case for a 127-year-old drinking water treatment plant.
- Public Utilities Commission chairman not recusing himself (9/19/13)
The family-owned utility Fryeburg Water Co. is seeking PUC approval of the terms of a 25-year contract with Nestle Waters North America, a subsidiary of Switzerland’s Nestle SA
- Whitefield dam owner criticizes water level plan (1/7/14)
Parties in the two-year process to settle water level disputes at Clary Lake in Jefferson and Whitefield submitted final comments to the state Department of Environmental Protection Monday.
- UConn approves CT Water contract (12/12/13)
The University of Connecticut's trustees this week voted to move ahead with a contract with Connecticut Water that will supplement its Storrs campus water supply by as much as 1.5 million gallons a day over the next 50 years, the school and utility announced.
- Wallingford explores ‘interconnecting’ water system (11/10/13)
WALLINGFORD -- Public utility officials will meet with the Town Council Tuesday to discuss the possibility of acquiring land near the North Haven border so that community’s water system can interconnect with that of the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority.
- Maine PUC chairman drops out of Poland Spring water case (10/15/13)
The chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission has recused himself from a controversial case involving the owner of Poland Spring water and the family-controlled utility in Fryeburg that supplies it with water
- For regulators and Nestle Waters, conflict by the gallon (9/1/13)
All three PUC commissioners and Maine's public advocate have ties to Poland Spring's parent company, which is seeking a 25-year contract.