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Transforming Great Salt Lake from Afterthought to Asset by Sowby, Robert B.

“…In a 36-year period that coincides with my lifetime, Great Salt Lake, one of the world’s largest terminal lakes and a critical ecosystem in the Western…”
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Water Supply and Firefighting: Early Lessons from the 2023 Maui Fires by Robert B. Sowby, Braxton W. Porter

“…Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are…”
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Why Is Residential Irrigation So Hard to Optimize? by Robert B. Sowby, Nathan T. Lunstad

“…Irrigation of residential landscapes is one of the largest demands for municipal water suppliers. However, it is often done inefficiently and is a concern for…”
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Economy of Scale of Energy Intensity in Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) by Alyson H. Rapp, Robert B. Sowby, Gustavious Williams

“…More water utilities are adopting aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) to balance long-term water supply and demand. Due to large implementation and operation…”
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Projected Effects of Climate Change on the Energy Footprints of U.S. Drinking Water Utilities by Sowby, Robert B., Hales, Riley C.

“…Drinking water systems’ energy footprints depend mostly on the source, quality, and volume of water supply, but also on local temperature and precipitation,…”
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Making waves: Research to support water and wastewater utilities in the transition to a clean-energy future by Sowby, Robert B.

“…•Water and wastewater utilities must adapt to a future built on clean energy.•The transition requires energy management techniques not yet widely…”
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The potential of carbon markets to accelerate green infrastructure based water quality trading by Limb, Braden J., Quinn, Jason C., Johnson, Alex, Sowby, Robert B., Thomas, Evan

“…Green infrastructure solutions can improve in-stream water quality in lieu of building electricity-consuming gray infrastructure. Permitted under the United…”
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Estimated energy and emissions impacts of pumping Pacific Ocean water to Great Salt Lake by Sowby, Robert B, Williams, Gustavious P, South, Andrew J

“…Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA, has receded in recent years. Among many options proposed to augment inflows is a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean. We estimate a…”
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The Safe Drinking Water Act at 50: A Policy Model for Grand Challenges by Sowby, Robert B.

“…Since its passage in 1974, the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) has become a pillar of water resources engineering, utility management, and public health…”
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Emergency preparedness after COVID-19: A review of policy statements in the U.S. water sector by Sowby, Robert B.

“…Although COVID-19 has impacted water and wastewater utilities in new and profound ways, they must still provide their vital services despite the disruptions…”
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Regulated Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectrometry Detectible Elements in Utah Lake: Characterization and Discussion by Rachel A. Valek, Kaylee B. Tanner, Jacob B. Taggart, Rebecca L. Ryan, Anna C. Cardall, Lauren M. Woodland, Maddeline J. Oxborrow, Gustavious P. Williams, A. Woodruff Miller, Robert B. Sowby

“…During the 2021 (n = 15) and 2022 (n = 13) summers, we measured the total and dissolved (<0.45 μm) concentration of 25 elements in Utah Lake using Inductively…”
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Nutrient Loadings to Utah Lake from Precipitation-Related Atmospheric Deposition by Brown, Mitchell M., Telfer, Justin T., Williams, Gustavious P., Miller, A. Woodruff, Sowby, Robert B., Hales, Riley C., Tanner, Kaylee B.

“…Atmospheric deposition (AD) is a less understood and quantified source of nutrient loading to waterbodies. AD occurs via settling (large particulates), contact…”
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Water system optimization: Aligning energy efficiency, system performance, and water quality by Jones, Steven C., Sowby, Robert B.

“…Operational improvements identified through an optimization study can bring the system into a balance that achieves cost savings through energy efficiency,…”
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Source Attribution of Atmospheric Dust Deposition to Utah Lake by Telfer, Justin T., Brown, Mitchell M., Williams, Gustavious P., Tanner, Kaylee B., Miller, A. Woodruff, Sowby, Robert B., Miller, Theron G.

“…Atmospheric deposition (AD) is a significant source of nutrient loading to waterbodies around the world. However, the sources and loading rates are poorly…”
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Utah Is Not the Second-Driest State: A Lesson in Questioning Persistent Assumptions about Hydrology by Sowby, Robert B.

“…Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest…”
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SABER: A Model-Agnostic Postprocessor for Bias Correcting Discharge from Large Hydrologic Models by Hales, Riley C., Sowby, Robert B., Williams, Gustavious P., Nelson, E. James, Ames, Daniel P., Dundas, Jonah B., Ogden, Josh

“…Hydrologic modeling is trending toward larger spatial and temporal domains, higher resolutions, and less extensive local calibration and validation. Thorough…”
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Logan, Utah: A Case Study in Water and Energy Efficiency by Jones, Steven C., Lindhardt, Paul W., Sowby, Robert B.

“…Logan City, Utah, experienced firsthand the water - energy nexus when it undertook a comprehensive water and energy audit to determine its best path forward…”
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Discussion of “Estimating Agricultural Groundwater Withdrawals with Energy Data” by Jonathan R. Martindill, Robert T. Good, and Frank J. Loge by Sowby, Robert B

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Discussion of “Improving Water Age in Distribution Systems by Optimal Valve Operation” by Bruno Brentan, Laura Monteiro, Joana Carneiro, and Dídia Covas by Sowby, Robert B

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Discussion of “Effect of Pipe Size and Location on Water-Main Head Loss in Water Distribution Systems” by Saeed Hashemi, Yves Filion, Vanessa Speight, and Andrew Long by Sowby, Robert B

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