Through the early part of last century, the best engineering minds worked off the core principle that Mother Nature could rectify all of our pollution problems.  In fact, one adage that was taught in school was, “The solution to pollution is dilution.”

By the mid sixties, we as a nation discovered that Mother Nature was not able to filter everything we threw at her. The quality of the water in our rivers became worse than ever. Expensive treatment of municipal water was no longer adequate. In fact, it became clear that it would be less expensive to produce a higher quality end product if we eliminated pollution at the source rather than try to rectify the situation downstream.

As we enter this new century, the world has grown progressively smaller. Ocean dumping of contaminated sludge leads to problems in fish delivered to markets worldwide. DDT and pesticides banned in the USA return to our shores on fresh fruit and vegetables imported from foreign lands. The building of new reservoirs will take up more land, destroy rivers and natural ecosystems. New controls, processes and techniques are needed worldwide if we are to thrive as a civilization.  Industry and consumer groups must form partnerships to solve these critical environmental problems.

At Water Management, we develop programs that greatly reduce water usage for our clients. This, in turn, reduces the total capacity needs of both the water and sewer treatment facilities.  As water utility officials have discovered over the past decade, the least expensive source of increased capacity for these facilities is saving what we currently have.

Our environmentally focused standards not only include water efficiency, but energy conservation. Conservation can be interchanged with efficiency and efficiency is good for business. In addition to creating lower long term water and energy rate costs for our clients, water conservation lowers energy costs for municipalities by creating less demand on infrastructures. Over 10% of US electricity is used directly in the pumping and processing of water and wastewater.  Additionally, well designed site-specific water efficiency programs reduce energy costs related to domestic water heating by more than 25%.

At WMI, we are not only dedicated to saving our clients money, but we also operate with the mission preserve the earth’s resources and protect our natural environment.  Please help to conserve water, earth’s most precious natural resource.  Our children are depending on it, our rivers, streams, lakes and bays need it, and our planet deserves it.  Remember, we all live downstream.