February 2000 – WC&P Online

Creating an Online Image with Maximum Impact: Planning Your Website Part 2 of 3

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Doug Swanson Editor's Note: The following is the second installment of a three-part series exploring how small firms can take advantage of the strengths…

Small Business Tips: Depreciation—The Misunderstood Source of Cash

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Joseph Arkin Any business that purchases fixed assets incurs a depreciation expense. That expense recognizes the periodic deterioration in those assets as they’re used…

Vended Water, Part 1 of 2: Testing and Inspection of Water Vending Machines in California

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Chang R. Lee, Ph.D., Philip Terrazas and Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz Summary: This article expands on an article written by Larry Eils, of the National Automatic…

Lebanon—Toward Sustainable Groundwater Development

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Salim W. Macksoud and Dar Al Handasah Lebanon, whose devastating civil war—referred to locally as “the troubles”—ended in 1991 with the signing of the…

WQA Show 2000: Getting the Most Out of the Convention: A Two-Way Street

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Jack E. Lorenzen, CWS-V Editor's note: The following is a dealer-to-dealer article designed to offer a conduit for advice between WC&P's primary readers, residential…

Removal of Cryptosporidium parvum from Water by Filtration

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By C.R. Fricker Summary: Over the past 15 years, the water industry has recognized the presence of two protozoan parasites in raw waters—Cryptosporidium parvum and…

The Bottom Line: The 20 Activities that Top Sales Performers Do—And Do Well

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By William H. "Bill" Blades I speak and consult on a wide range of industries and I find it hard to find 1 or 2…

Get Ahead with Headlines that Sell

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By David H. Martin Many years ago my first boss, a creative director for a major advertising agency, handed this then-young ad copywriter a bootleg…

Small Systems: Ozone Expertise to Opens Doors to Municipal Markets

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Ken Larson Summary: With the 1996 reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act, ozone was named as "best available technology" (BAT) for small system…

New Players in the Business

February 15, 2000 by Marty Zager

By Steve Maxwell Over the past few years—and particularly the last several months—we've heard a lot about the large publicly traded companies that are rapidly…