Water Finance

Lowell, Mass., City Manager Bernie Lynch and his administration made the case Tuesday night for the City Council approval for close to $63 million in loan orders to bolster the city’s water and sewer infrastructure.

Candi Controls, creator of a breakthrough unifying platform for machine-to-machine communications, recently announced the successful deployment of a cloud-enabled energy management system for the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA). Located at the MRWPCA treatment plant near Marina, Calif., the Candi-based implementation allows theRead More

United Water currently chairs SWIC and provides water and wastewater services to approximately 5.7 million people in the United States. In addition to owning and operating 20 water utilities, the company operates 100 municipal and industrial water and wastewater systems through innovative public-private partnerships and contract agreements.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has invited the 22 largest U.S. Great Lakes shoreline cities to apply for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding for green infrastructure projects that will improve Great Lakes water quality.

Black & Veatch?s 2013 ?Strategic Directions in the U.S. Water Industry? report quantifies and confirms the industry?s most pressing challenges: aging infrastructure and costs associated with maintaining and improving infrastructure.

To address thousands of raw sewage discharges in violation of the Clean Water Act, the San Antonio Water System has agreed to a $1.1 billion upgrade to its infrastructure and will pay a $2.6 million civil penalty. The State of Texas is a co-plaintiff inRead More

American Water announced last week that Joe Goodwill, a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts ? Amherst, has been chosen as the recipient of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) 2013 American Water Scholarship. The scholarship is an annual award of $5,000 presented toRead More

Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) executive director Tony Radoszewski presented Camille George Rubeiz, P.E. with his 10-year service award during PPI’s recent annual membership meeting in St. Pete Beach, Fla. PPI is the major trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry.?Rubeiz is theRead More

The U.S. Senate passed legislation last month that would create a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority, a key development in addressing America?s trillion-dollar water infrastructure challenge. A WIFIA pilot program is included in the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (S. 601), which passed by a vote of 83-14. It now moves on to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.

The City of San Diego has been conducting a two-year study, looking at ways to turn wastewater into drinking water at the North City Water Reclamation Plant. The advanced water treatment project is now one step closer to becoming reality. City Councilman David Alvarez, whoRead More