Industrial Strength Research Articles

Trends of construction industry in Malaysia and its emerging challenges

PurposeThe transition of Malaysia from a developing country to a developed country was considered in vision 2020, whereby an average construction contribution of 6.0% in growth domestic product (GDP) per annum was required. Despite this importance, still, the Malaysian construction industry has not reached the target yet. Understanding the weakness and strength of this industry can be an effective way to help the policymakers in selecting the best strategy in the promotion of the Malaysian construction industry in GDP growth. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the current issues and challenges faced by the contribution of the Malaysian construction industry in GDP growth.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve this objective, all the latest statistical data presented by the Department of Statistic and Construction Industry Development Board in Malaysia until March 2018 being collected and interpreted. Furthermore, through the literature review, the most significant challenges encountered by the Malaysian construction industry identified, compared and presented.FindingsThe results highlight that the contribution of Malaysian construction into GDP is increasing with a gentle slope. Nonetheless, the Malaysian construction industry has a high impact on the employment rate. More investment in the construction sector is required to meet an average of 6% contribution in GDP. Also, to be able to seize new opportunities in the global construction market, more exerted efforts have to overcome the challenges faced by this industry.Practical implicationsThis study offers practical implications to policy and decision makers in the Malaysian construction industry. Despite the constant growth of the Malaysian construction industry in recent years, there is a need for more investments and overcome to challenges to encounter an average of 6% contribution in GDP. This study provides an overview and insights to investors, stockholders and managers to formulate a long-term plan promoting the efficiency of the Malaysian construction industry.Originality/valueThis study through explaining, comparing and interpreting the real statistical data, through the tables, figures and graphs, simplified the understanding of the weakness and strength of the Malaysian construction industry.

To them that hath: economic complexity and local industrial strategy in the UK

Divergent economic performance in many countries has led to renewed interest in place-based policies, such as the UK’s local industrial strategies at the level of Combined Authorities or Local Economic Partnerships. However, an analysis of employment data using methods from the economic complexity literature demonstrates great heterogeneity in industrial strengths and future growth opportunities within those jurisdictions, raising challenges in designing common policies suited to all sub-geographies. Moreover, the ‘related’ industries into which low-complexity, low-wage local authorities could potentially diversify are also low-wage. Incremental policies building on existing local capacities are therefore likely to amplify divergence between prospering and left-behind areas.

Linking local water consumption in inland arid regions with imported virtual water: Approaches, application and actuators

The consumption of local blue-green physical water (blue-green PW) is linked to imported virtual water (imported VW) within economic production. The quantitative analysis of interactions between blue-green PW and imported VW is important for integrated management of water resources in inland arid areas. This study used the North Tianshan Mountains (NTM) as a case study to demonstrate the construction of a framework to account for local blue-green PW and imported VW in regional economic production using an input-output model. The results showed that the consumption and transfer of blue-green PW in the agricultural sector constitute the most important part of the water cycle in the NTM. Production consumed relatively less imported VW, 51.3% of which was by the secondary and tertiary industries. VW consumed by the primary industry in the NTM was closely correlated with that by the secondary and tertiary industries, whereas low consumption by the primary industry in the NTM and high demand for primary industry products from outside regions resulted in the direct outflow of large amount of blue-green VW. The current structure of trade in VW also contributed to increasing water shortages in the NTM. This study proposed that the enhancement of the cyclic strength of the primary industry in the local economic system is an effective measure to reduce water loss and improve water utilization efficiency. In addition, by considering the results of industrial linkage analysis of economic sectors, this study proposed that the government should promote the development of industries with large water storage potential, such as construction, manufacturing and forestry, and that adjustment of the structure of local industries should be accelerated so as to reduce the loss of VW during local economic production and trade flows of the primary industry.

On the shift‐invert Lanczos method for the buckling eigenvalue problem

AbstractWe consider the problem of extracting a few desired eigenpairs of the buckling eigenvalue problem , where K is symmetric positive semi‐definite, KG is symmetric indefinite, and the pencil is singular, namely, K and KG share a nontrivial common nullspace. Moreover, in practical buckling analysis of structures, bases for the nullspace of K and the common nullspace of K and KG are available. There are two open issues for developing an industrial strength shift‐invert Lanczos method: (1) the shift‐invert operator does not exist or is extremely ill‐conditioned, and (2) the use of the semi‐inner product induced by K drives the Lanczos vectors rapidly toward the nullspace of K, which leads to a rapid growth of the Lanczos vectors in norms and causes permanent loss of information and the failure of the method. In this paper, we address these two issues by proposing a generalized buckling spectral transformation of the singular pencil and a regularization of the inner product via a low‐rank updating of the semi‐positive definiteness of K. The efficacy of our approach is demonstrated by numerical examples, including one from industrial buckling analysis.

Research Status and Prospects of Materials for Aero-engines in China

Aero-engine, a highly complex and precise thermal machinery, is the engine that provides the aircraft with the necessary power for flight. As the heart of aircraft, it directly affects the performance, reliability, and economy of the aircraft, and it is also an essential embodiment of a country’s scientific, technological, industrial, and national defense strength. Thus, this paper compares the material, structure, and process characteristics of China’s aero- engines and the development process and research status of high-temperature alloys in the field of aero-engines. Finally, some prospects are put forward for the development of aero-engine materials.

Ban the (plastic) bag? Explaining variation in the implementation of plastic bag bans in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda

The environmental damage that plastic waste is causing has catalyzed government action against plastic bags around the world. Despite anti-plastic bag policies gaining traction globally, there has been limited investigation of why the implementation of bans has varied. The variation in implementing bans is particularly stark in East Africa, a region that has been at the forefront of plastic bag legislation. Rwanda’s implementation of a ban on plastic bags in 2008 has attracted widespread praise for its environmental leadership. Kenya adopted a plastic bag ban before Rwanda but implementation was consistently delayed until a stringent ban was finally imposed in 2018. In Uganda, despite bans being announced on four separate occasions, implementation continues to be delayed. This paper explains why some governments adopt and effectively enforce plastic bag bans while others reverse course or delay implementation. Existing literature has cited the comparative strength of plastic industries as the salient factor in explaining varied adoption of plastic bag bans. This paper argues that though the comparative business power of plastic industries explains whether bans are obstructed, it does not satisfactorily explain varied implementation. Instead, countries that pursue services-based development strategies, which prioritise externally dependent sectors like tourism, are more likely to implement plastic bag bans, which can help bolster their green credentials. For the Rwandan and Kenyan governments, presenting their countries as environmental leaders contributed to their goals of becoming a regional economic hub, reliant on services like tourism. The Kenyan government’s decision to eventually implement the ban was driven by a perceived need to compete with Rwanda for regional environmental leadership while supporting Kenya’s services-based economic development strategy. In contrast, Uganda’s comparatively larger discovery of oil and limited emphasis on services-based development explained the government’s lack of commitment to implementing a plastic bag ban.

Study on the effect of grain refinement of deformable heat treatment on steel properties

Iron and steel is the foundation and symbol of a country’s industrial strength, which plays an important role in the process of industrial modernization. Because of its high strength and good mechanical properties, it is widely used in all fields of society. Therefore, how to improve steel performance, mass production, reduce steel energy consumption and cost is very important. In this paper, the grain refinement principle of steel deformation-heat treatment and its influence on steel properties are expounded and analyzed. Meanwhile, the experimental data show that grain refinement of deformation-heat treatment has obvious effect and simple method to improve steel properties, which is conducive to the large-scale production of high-performance steel and plays an important role in the industrial development of China.

Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in the Chinese High-Tech Industry under Government Intervention

The high-tech industry is the main force promoting the development of China’s national economy. As its industrial economic strength grows, China’s high-tech industry is increasingly using cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A) as an important way to “go out.” To explore the rules governing the process and operation mechanism of reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) through the CBM&A of China’s high-tech industry under government intervention, a tripartite evolutionary game model of the government, the parent company, and the subsidiary as the main subjects is constructed in this paper. The strategies adopted by the three subjects in the RKT game process are analysed, and the factors influencing RKT through CBM&A under government intervention are simulated and analysed using Python 3.7 software. The results show that, under government intervention, the parent company and subsidiary have different degrees of influence on each other. Subsidiaries are highly sensitive to the compensation rate of RKT. Positive intervention by the government tends to foster stable cooperation between the parent company and the subsidiary. However, over time, the government gradually relaxes its intervention in the RKT and innovation of multinational companies.

АНАЛІЗ СУЧАСНОГО СТАНУ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ВИДАВНИЧОЇ ГАЛУЗІ УКРАЇНИ

The article covers the development of the national publishing industry. The peculiarities of publishing products as a commodity are highlighted, the scheme of interrelations of participants of the publishing process is given, which can be divided into three processes, externally separated from each other: intangible production; material production; turnover of goods / services. The main reasons for the inefficient development of the publishing industry are identified, such as low competitiveness of products, outdated material and technical base, which, in turn, requires appropriate measures of state institutional support. Changes in the volume of printing production are characterized and the production of books is analyzed, where there is a reduction in print runs, displacement of Ukrainian producers, stagnation of basic printing resources, further dependence of the Ukrainian publishing industry, lagging behind in the development of modern information technologies. society to obtain complete information. In just 6 months of 2020, the book market fell in titles and circulations and lost professionals and players, and the release of books and booklets compared to the same period in 2019 amounted to 13.9% in circulation and 35.7% in titles, ie a drop in titles in Ukrainian 62.7%, in Russian 72.5%, but in circulation – almost the same 86.2% and 86.3%, respectively. The strengths of the publishing industry are highlighted and the main factors hindering the development of the industry are explored and recommendations and options for supporting the industry are given. It is concluded that for the development of the publishing industry, public institutions must actively participate in improving the quality of life in society, it is necessary to create an array of information about entities that are related to the industry, their evaluation and ranking of business performance. It is necessary to stimulate the rise of competitiveness in the publishing industry, invest money in equipment and modern technologies, training and retraining of labor resources, ensure the development of digitalization of economic processes, implement a set of measures to stimulate investment and innovation.

Research on Development Strategy of Industrial Transformation and Upgrading Demonstration Base in Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macao Greater Bay Area-- A Case Study of Xintai Group “Gold Town”

A “Gold town” is a characteristic town featuring gold industry and being operated by leading enterprises. Xintai Group in gold and jewelry industry has launched a “Gold Town” project in Houjie, Dongguan, Guangdong by taking advantage of its own capital and technology, seizing the opportunity of gold and jewelry industry transformation and gathering the strength of traditional gold and jewelry industry in Houjie. “Gold Town” is a key project supported by the local government in response to the national call. When setting up this project, Xintai Group introduced the characteristic development concept of European towns and optimized its own industrial structure, and meanwhile it aimed to build an industrial ecological base of gold and jewelry town and aggregate industrial development resources. This project has been partially completed and the first phase has been transferred to the production and operation stage. Therefore, it is of great significance for both Xintai Group and the local government to explore the appropriate development strategy of the “Gold Town” project.

Research on Localization of Serpentine Tube High Pressure Heater

It could be seen that the ultra supercritical reheating is a high-end technology in the field of power equipment manufacturing, which represents the strength and design level of national major equipment manufacturing industry. Based on the development of key components technology of millions of secondary reheat units, solving the design and manufacturing problems of serpentine high-pressure heater, optimizing the heat exchange efficiency of serpentine high-pressure heater, and improving the operation reliability, will help to promote the development process of China’s high-end power equipment, and provide important technical support for the quality supervision and management of serpentine high-pressure heater.

A SWOT Analysis to understand the impact of tourism industry on the Three pillars social Economy and Environment

The tourism industry is an important sector contributing to the world economy where many countries’ economies worldwide depend mostly on the tourism industry incomes. In the present study, we analyze and review the tourism industry strength, weaknesses and opportunities in Morocco through applying Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat (SWOT) analysis. The study highlights the importance of the tourism sector for the socio-economic growth and development of the Moroccan economy and the need to preserve the country’s natural and cultural wealth by adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

Teen and Social Violence in Cinema: Construction of Teen Identity in Film Dilan 1990

Dilan 1990 is a teenage film with the highest number of viewers in 2018, which reached 6,315,664. The success of Dilan 1990 is inseparable from the culture industry's strength, which can mobilize public interest through reliable publication and marketing. The success of the film Dilan carrying the characters of Dilan and Milea as teen idols raises concerns about the identity of adolescents who are laden with violent symbols. This is because the content and theme of the story in the 1990s were constructed with Dilan's character, who liked to fight. For this reason, this study aims to analyze the construction of adolescent identity and social violence in the 1990 Dilan film. This research method uses a qualitative approach with an interpretative paradigm. Data Analysis Method uses narrative analysis of film subtitles with the Vladimir Propp analysis model. The unit of analysis in this study is the film Dilan 1990 (2018). Data collection techniques are conducted with text analysis, literature study, observation, and documents. This study concludes that social violence among adolescents is constructed in the cinema through adolescents' identity, both verbal violence and physical violence in the school environment and outside of school. Young men carry out social violence to young women who describe gender inequality, which refers to social violence due to cultural factors.

LIVING QURAN MEMBANGUN INFRASTRUKTUR IBU KOTA NEGARA BARU REPUBLIK INDONESIA

The Living Quran is a study of the Koran as a holy book that is always "alive" to guide humans, in building and managing the universe. Al-Quran is the most noble reading, guiding the reader (reciter ') when carrying out individual, group, or state activities. Al-Quran is a manual book for humans to build infrastructure as the main capital for technological, industrial and economic strength. Building infrastructure in the new capital city of the Republic of Indonesia, begins with zoning in East Kalimantan Province. The launching of the grandbreaking of development, as a prayer asking for grace from Allah SWT, so that work goes according to plan. Munajat is a blessing, in fact it is the living Quran in providing inspiration to project implementers. So that every time you face problems and challenges, there is always a way out (yaj'allahu makhrajan)

The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820. By Murray Armstrong (London, Pluto Press, 2020) 296 pp. $99.00 cloth $19.95 paper

On April 1, 1820, a self-styled “provisional government” issued a proclamation from Glasgow, imploring the “inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland” to take up arms. This was no April Fools’ day joke. Striking weavers in the city and surrounding industrial towns, numbering 60,000, provided the insurgents with hope, but the rebellion soon petered out following a botched armed rising. Its leaders were arrested, and at summer’s end, three met their ends in public execution. Armstrong’s engaging account of 1820 begins where his last work on late eighteenth-century radicalism—The Liberty Tree: The Stirring Story of Thomas Muir And Scotland’s Fight for Democracy (Edinburgh, 2014)—ended. It centers on the experience of Scottish weavers, the skilled craftsmen who provided both the industrial strength and dense political organization that made the 1820 rising possible. Their secret societies and oath taking spooked the British state as it recovered from the Napoleonic wars and faced intermittent famines and the crushing effects of industrial business cycles.Armstrong is tactful in his discussion of the complexities that shaped reforming politics, effectively developing biographies to tell the story from the point of view of radicals and bourgeois “volunteer” soldiers alike. Less expectedly, he details weavers’ relationship with the Whig lawyers who repeatedly defended them in the courts. This cross-class alliance harked back to the 1790s but was visible again in 1812 when Francis Jeffrey implored courts to impose wage rates on employers attempting to use slack labor-market conditions to their advantage. These relationships challenge conventional models of the moral economy inspired by Thompson, which assume that liberals were the arch opponents of paternalism. However, political distinctions ultimately crystallized along class lines.1 Jeffrey represented the men who took part in the rising, but he viewed their actions as immature. The radical cause was separated from the liberal one after 1820, becoming more clearly imbued with confrontational class politics. Liberalism, however, became associated with the compromises that led to the limited suffrage extension of 1832.The Fight for Scottish Democracy begins with John Wilson’s family digging up the veteran revolutionary’s body after his execution. In fourteen short chapters, Armstrong runs through the 1812 weavers’ strike, another dispute in 1817, the outbreak of typhus fever in 1819, and the rising. The analysis draws from the radical press, court records, and government archives; together they detail paranoia among government ministers and the turning of Alexander Richmond, the fugitive weavers’ leader who became an informant. Armstrong’s eye for detail is one of the book’s key strengths. He authoritatively concludes that the widespread view of the rising as the work of spies is misplaced. The rising failed because Britain’s “manufacturing districts” were isolated from one another, despite attempts to maintain contact between London, the Midlands, Northern England, and West-Central Scotland. Armstrong’s caution regarding Scottish nationalist assessments of the rising are bolstered when he notes that bands at radical demonstrations played “Rule Britannia” alongside “Scots Wha Hae.” The investigation of songs and poetry written by the uprising’s supporters also reveals their international inspiration and sympathies for abolitionism.The book, however, betrays a lack of analytical depth. Despite its title, it pays insufficient attention to the role that Scottish national consciousness played in the rising and in shaping its memory. The blurb claims that the rebellion is a “little-known chapter of Scottish history.” In 2020 alone, however, Craig and MacAskill have released popular histories of 1820, and a landmark conference on the subject at the University of Glasgow was canceled only because of the coronavirus lockdown.2 Armstrong briefly recognizes the influence of the rising on both the labor movement and Scottish nationalist politics toward the end of the book, detailing that the rising was commemorated as early as the 1840s, but Pentland’s monograph presents a more thorough assessment of the rising’s longer-term impact.3 Nevertheless, Armstrong’s book is a significant contribution to our understanding of 1820. It demonstrates the value of micro-histories constructed through biography and the utility of combining the press and state archives with memoirs, songs, and poetry.

Modelling and Validation of the Composite Shell of a Train Seat

The subject of the modelling work and the conducted experiments is the composite shell of a train seat. The activities carried out involved designing the geometry, planning the material structure, and selecting the materials to be used. The shell was built using polymer matrix fibrous composites (i.e. FRP – Fibre Reinforced Polymer – composites), which are lighter than steel and comply with the relevant standards for strength and safety at the same time. This was followed by creating a computational model for the shell and conducting a strength analysis in accordance with the guidelines of the relevant industry standard and strength hypotheses adopted for FRP composites. The calculations were conducted using ANSYS Composite PrepPost software based on the finite element method. The article offers a strength analysis of an optimised composite shell of a train seat. Based on the guidelines obtained as a result of the conducted modelling work, a physical prototype (validation model) of the seat was created. Hot vacuum lamination technology was applied in the production process. The experimental validation of the model, producing a positive result, was conducted using a test stand owned by S.Z.T.K. TAPS – Maciej Kowalski. Keywords: train seat structure, FRP composite, FEM modelling, experimental validation

Internal Oxidation of High Strength Steels during Short-Term Annealing: Observation of Significant Enhancement of the Internal Oxidation in Fe-Mn-Si Ternary Alloys

In different production steps steels are exposed for short times, from a few minutes to up to a few hours, to high temperatures, either under reducing conditions for iron (e.g. N2-H2 during recrystallization annealing) or in oxidizing environments (e.g. during hot rolling and cooling after hot rolling). These processes are accompanied by external and internal oxidation, which can affect further processing steps. For example, during cooling after hot rolling of high strength steels especially grain boundary oxidation can lead to significant problems during pickling and cold rolling. For some alloys, e.g in the Fe-Mn-Si system, a surprisingly pronounced and deep grain boundary oxidation is observed.In this paper a fundamental investigation of grain boundary oxidation during annealing under model atmospheres simulating the oxygen partial pressure beneath the scale and also under significant lower partial pressure will be addressed, based on model alloys which are relevant to industrial high strength steel grades. The focus will be on questions such as how the different alloying elements and different annealing conditions influence the internal selective oxidation.In order to develop a fundamental understanding, the internal oxidation of dedicated binary and ternary model alloys (Fe-Mn, Fe-Si, Fe-Mn-Si, of different composition) was investigated in depth. Besides a thorough analysis of the oxide morphology, one important focus was on monitoring the mass gain in-situ during isothermal oxidation for short term exposures of up to 2h. The partial pressure of oxygen during the experiments was kept just below the equilibrium pressure for FeO/Fe and for comparison also at much lower partial pressure. As the mass changes during internal oxidation are very low, errors from buoyancy effects in a standard set-up are in the same range as the mass change to be investigated. Hence, a novel under-pressure TG set-up was developed and applied here. Furthermore, in-operando photoelectron spectroscopy of the oxide evolution at the surface by Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy (APXPS) was carried out, which provided important additional information for achieving a fundamental understanding of the observed oxidation kinetics. Based on the results the enhancing effect of the combination of Si and Mn on internal oxidation will be discussed.

R&D Employee Training, the Stock of Technological Knowledge, and R&D productivity

This paper investigates the conditioning role of R&D employee training on the effect of the stock of technological knowledge on firm R&D productivity. We suggest that R&D employee training enhances firm-specific technological competence, thereby enabling the firm to better utilize the stock of technological knowledge as a source of technological opportunities. Specifically, while a trap of path dependency may hamper the proper utilization of the firm-specific stock of technological knowledge, R&D employee training reinforces the standing-on-the-shoulders effect of the stock of technological knowledge, thereby offsetting, at least partially, its fishing-out effect due to depleting technological opportunities. Using panel data of Korean manufacturing firms, we show R&D employee training positively moderates the effect of the stock of technological knowledge on firm R&D productivity. Furthermore, we suggest several factors that influence the positive moderating effect of R&D employee training such as the degree of knowledge sharing among R&D employees within each firm, the strength of industry R&D appropriability, and the intensity of industry R&D.

Management Innovation of Marine Cultural Industry Based on SWOT and AHP

Zhang, Y.; Yuan, L., and Ye, T., 2020. Management innovation of marine cultural industry based on SWOT and AHP. In: Li, L. and Huang, X. (eds.), Sustainable Development in Coastal Regions: A Perspective of Environment, Economy, and Technology. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 112, pp. 199-202. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Marine cultural industry is a kind of marine civilization expenditure to meet the spiritual and material needs of the public. It is an industrialization means based on the development and utilization of marine cultural resources. Through the production of sea related cultural products, we can improve the development of sea related cultural service industry. However, there are still many problems in the development strategy of China's marine cultural industry, which will affect the output of the comprehensive strength of China's marine cultural industry. Therefore, we must innovate the management mode of marine culture industry, which requires the joint efforts of the government and enterprises. By making full use of marine resources, China's marine industry culture can actively respond to various disadvantages and threats on the basis of national strategic policies, which will drive the development mode of marine cultural industry resources. Through SWOT analysis and analytic hierarchy process, this paper analyzes the constraints of marine cultural industry, which will better to innovate the management of marine cultural industry.

The Next One

Even as we continue to battle the scourge of COVID-19, there's a lot of hope that things eventually will return to normal. Moving forward, though, will there ever be a time when we aren't at the outset of another global pandemic, and should planning efforts more often consider strategies to address a pandemic on top of another disaster? COVID-19 has revealed many of the water industry's strengths and some areas that need improvement, but thankfully water professionals are used to planning for uncertainty. Accommodating the natural cycle of water moving through the environment with seasonal impacts, leaders and decision makers must also account for any significant negative events in their forecasts and plans. For example, utilities and the communities they serve must also address drought leading to wildfires, torrential rains producing floods, and deep freezes causing pipes to burst. Climate change increases the likelihood of those extremes, but even when facing a flood after a fire during a pandemic, water services must always continue. While most of us are focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, some of those in the trenches are already preparing for the next catastrophe—be it another pandemic or some other global disturbance. Regardless of challenges and their combinations, water experts are creating the policies, plans, and bases of design to account for whatever comes next. It's up to water professionals to know their systems, build in and expand resiliency, and guide a community's valuable assets through one event, then another, or sometimes two or more at the same time. However, the challenges that seem daunting today will catalyze understanding and innovation, leaving the industry better prepared for the future. We can't allow any natural or man-made force to overwhelm a community's water systems under normal conditions but especially not in times of crisis. In preparing for and dealing with large-scale threats, it's great to have relationships in place so responses and resources can be coordinated quickly. At the local level, teams must be properly equipped and prepared, and AWWA is ready and able to connect those who need help with the industry guidance and expertise they need. Responding to COVID-19, the water industry so far hasn't missed a beat, and those systems that faced wildfires or floods on top of this pandemic are learning lessons that will serve as future models for responding to compounding calamities. In preparing for the next one, the water industry will need to optimize available resources to ensure water systems and the professionals behind them can effectively face the next contagion combined with a natural disaster occurring alongside a man-made challenge, while always looking ahead for the next one. This month's Journal AWWA features articles on source water protection, water loss control, lead and copper control, and using inclusive language. If you are interested in submitting an article, contact me at journaleditor@awwa.org.