Welcome to 2024, everybody. We’re back from our holiday break, reinvigorated and ready to deliver the news and views you rely on to navigate this industry. Glad you could join us for this episode, where host Brock Yordy talks about recent water recycling initiatives as well as incentives to build the workforce in green-energy areas like geothermal.

Host Brock Yordy in this episode wraps up a busy year in groundwater and drilling industry news. From state geothermal efforts to Waters of the U.S., he pulls out the news nuggets you need to head into 2024. But first, he brings us an interview with Scott Moser, president of TDH Manufacturing, from the show floor at the 2023 Groundwater Week event in Las Vegas.

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For today’s special episode of The Driller Newscast, host Brock Yordy sits down with outgoing NGWA President Jason House and incoming President David Traut. They spoke at the National Ground Water Association’s Groundwater Week 2023 event in Las Vegas.This editorial podcast is brought to you by:

If you’re coming to 2023 Groundwater Week, great. If not, get here if you can. In this show preview, we talk about what to look for at the show, hear from Mac Nehring of Civista Leasing & Finance about growing fleets, then wrap up with Aaron Mauer of Matrix Drilling Products.

For this week’s episode, we shine a light on the Water Systems Council’s annual State of the U.S. Water Well Industry survey. This year’s survey just opened, and water well and drilling professionals are invited to take it before Dec. 20.

We welcome back this week Dave Schulenberg, the director of partner states for the National Ground Water Association (NGWA). But … today’s episode shines the spotlight on Schulenberg’s other work as a children’s book author. He wrote “The Adventure of Mr. Mouse” in 2021, and has returned with a prequel sure to warm the burly hearts of groundwater professionals everywhere. Host Brock Yordy talks to him about “Mr. Mouse Gets a Well” and delivering the message of groundwater to young people.This editorial podcast is brought to you by:

Have you led an effort to install 100 wells across Africa from Kenya to Cameroon? Neither have we. But Youtube powerhouse Mr. Beast has. Anchor Brock Yordy celebrates the accomplishment and challenges Mr. Beast to come on the show to talk about it (and properly fitting PPE).This editorial podcast is brought to you by:

Rob Meyer, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and driller, returns to The Driller Newscast for a conversation about hiring. What can the industry do to find and pull in veterans? What do they want from the industry? To Meyer, drilling suffers when vets — or anyone, really — can find competing wages and arguably better working conditions at an Amazon distribution center.

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Edd Schofield of Johnson Screens talks avoiding drilling nightmares, plus leadership columnist Jake Fletcher.

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For this episode, we sit down for an interview with Kortney Lull of Midwest Geothermal, the outgoing board chair for the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association. Lull and host Brock Yordy cover a lot of ground, from IGSHPA’s re-invention to the how geothermal competes with and complements other strategies for cutting “peak load” on our energy grid.