John Peeples used to spend $150 to $225 per month on watering his grass between June and August every year. Twenty years ago he dug a well on his property, connected his sprinkler system to it and his monthly water bill dropped to $20.

"All it does is water my grass," the resident of Pensacola's Cordova Park neighborhood said of his irrigation system. "It's not connected to the public water supply in any way. And yet they are telling me I have to get this device." Full Article

Changes to DEP rules have positive effect on city of Venice water customer

VENICE, Fla. -- Changes of the rules for cross-connection control by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will equal cost savings to residents of the City of Venice.

The changes reflect a desire by the state agency to reduce the burden of installation and testing of backflow prevention assemblies for residential water customers. Changes to the city's cross- connection control program include: Full Article

How Clean Is Your Drinking Water?

How do you know your drinking water is safe? Andrea Mock reports. Video

SKOKIE — Skokie will charge a permit fee of $50 to inspect new installations of back-flow prevention plumbing devices in homes or businesses.

The fee is part of the village's stepped up program to make sure that the plumbing devices are installed where they should be and installed properly, which is a state law.

Without such a device properly installed, contaminants can make their way into the village's water system should a plumbing back-flow occur, village officials say.(Skokie steps up back-flow plumbing device program)

PARIS TN: RESTAURANT SCORES FOR HENRY COUNTY

Scores from Henry County restaurant inspections conducted by the Henry County Health Department for the week of Aug. 20-26 (maximum score: 100): Full Article

The biggest "fatberg" ever found in a residential sewer has been removed by engineers in Kingston, south-west London, after three weeks of work.

The "fatberg," a collection of fat and wet wipes, weighed 15 tons and was the size of a bus.

Gordon Hailwood, a sewer contract manager for Thames Water, said if it had not been discovered in time, raw sewage could have started to spurt out of manholes across the whole of Kingston.

He warned of the dangers of "fatbergs," saying that Thames Water was trying to spread the message of "bin it and don't block it".(Giant Fatberg was the size of a bus(Video)