BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ­­— The Water Technology staff has compiled some of the most viewed stories from 2011 to try and find out what you thought was the best story of the year.  

To vote, click here. Or you can go to our homepage. We will post the results during the first week of 2012.

Your options include the following (click on each story headline to read the complete story):

• Japan’s quake influenced groundwater in Florida

• Radioactive iodine-131 detected in Pennsylvania rainwater, drinking water deemed safe

• Softener salesman charged in bizarre health scheme

• Study: No-salt water conditioning technologies effective at reducing scale formation

• Two men found dead in a sewage tank

• Wastewater treatment operator arrested on terrorism charges

• Shark to continue living in desalination plant

• Banana peels useful for purification of drinking water

• Man dies after working inside tank at water treatment plant

• Distilling apparatus used to make moonshine found at treatment plant