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Rixen (shown checking the open/close limits on a Sharpe air-actuated valve from ASC Engineered Solutions), reaches out to potential recruits in part by teaching career day classes for schools.
North Dakota isn’t just a windswept place haunted only by antelope and jackrabbits.
From 2010 to 2021, the state’s population grew by just over 15%, driven largely by an oil drilling boom. That growth brought increasing demand for the Southwest Water Authority, based in...