EditorialPumpers Play an Important Role in Disease Prevention

Pumpers Play an Important Role in Disease Prevention

Talk to your customers about how neglecting septic systems can lead to infections and insect-borne viruses.

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Pumpers Play an Important Role in Disease Prevention
Jim Anderson, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water and Climate and recipient of the pumping industry’s Ralph Macchio Lifetime Achievement Award. Email Jim questions about septic system maintenance and operation at editor@pumper.com.

We are moving into the height of the flying and biting insect season in my part of the world. So I thought it would be a good time to bring up a topic I had questions about last fall: that is the role septic systems might play in the spread of the Zika virus. This is part of a...

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