A great leader isn't someone who leads; it's someone that inspires other people to want to follow.

It's become more common in the last few years to have workers on the jobsite who suffer from drug addiction, alcohol dependency/heavy use of alcohol, or lack of sleep. Whether it's opiates, painkillers or a few beers after work, impairment on the jobsite puts everyone's safety at risk.

A great driller must respect the power of a drill rig and the damage it is capable of doing.

Casing while drilling (CWD) has been around in the rotary business for only 20 to 30 years, but cable tool drillers have been using this method since about day one.

Sometimes, a career stems from a family tradition. Other times, an opportunity falls into your lap by chance. And, very rarely, it happens out of love.

In marketing ground source heat pump systems and geothermal, we are excluding the entire air conditioning component of the systems we offer.

We live in a society that tends to embrace and even thrive on the polarization of issues, methods and standards that are not as black and white as one would be led to believe.

In last month’s column, I said I would be discussing iron filters this month. However, I realize I failed to cover one rather special type of softener and, also, how the regeneration cycles of automatic softeners are accomplished.

If you have a skilled employee who seems like a good candidate to strike out on his or her own, try encouragement — especially if you don’t see a clear path up for that person.

Ahead of the NGWA’s Groundwater Week 2018, we sat down with Cody Green, product manager of water well drills at Epiroc, to discuss drill selection tips, the latest rig innovations and the future of drilling technology.