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The Playbook to Fight Wildfires' Unseen Threat to Tap Water

The Playbook to Fight Wildfires' Unseen Threat to Tap Water

Update: 2025-08-26
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The Tubbs Fire that struck the North Bay in 2017 shed light on an unseen threat that wildfires pose to clean water supplies; and a civil engineering professor out of Indiana has devised the playbook that utilities rely on to address the contamination.




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The Playbook to Fight Wildfires' Unseen Threat to Tap Water

The Playbook to Fight Wildfires' Unseen Threat to Tap Water

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