Water & Sewer Damage Awareness Week Returns October 21-25
Maumee, Ohio-based Ground Penetrating Radar Systems LLC (GPRS) announces the return of Water & Sewer Damage Awareness Week (WSDAW), which will run Oct. 21-25.
GPRS safety professionals will spend the week traveling the country to give free WSDAW safety presentations designed to help educate municipalities, engineering firms, facilities and property management firms on how to regain control of their water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure.
Additional safety information will also be shared throughout the week on both the GPRS and WSDAW LinkedIn pages.
Jason Schaff, GPRS chief strategy officer and SiteMap product executive, notes that Water and Sewer Damage Awareness Week is designed to help these groups take back control of their water and wastewater systems:
- Six billion gallons of water are lost daily in the U.S. due to defective subsurface water infrastructure. This is referred to as non-revenue water (NRW) and $2 billion of it trickles away into the soil or waterways each year
- 70,000 sanitary sewer overflows occur annually in the U.S.
- The average sewer pipe in the U.S. is 45 years old and at 81 percent capacity
- The United States’ infrastructure scored a C- on the 2021 American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card
“Infrastructure in the US is in poor shape – water and wastewater systems are no exception,” Schaff says. “WSDAW offers education on practical ways to prevent the further degradation of these critical underground assets! WSDAW is the marrying of a solution with a problem.”
For more information about Water & Sewer Damage Awareness Week or to sign up for a free WSDAW safety event, visit WSDAW.org.
SOURCE – GPRS
