Water Management

The Water Innovation Project has announced that registration is now open to coders, policy makers, water and energy experts and interested parties for the 2015 Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon, which is being held Aug. 15-16 at General Assembly?s offices in San Francisco.

AWWA, AMWA and WEF have received a 2015 Power of A Gold Award from the American Society of Association Executives for their work on the passage of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.

Fort Collins Utilities was recently recognized as the first utility in Colorado, and among the first in the nation, to receive the Directors Award in the Partnership for Safe Water?s Distribution System Optimization Program.

Every year, the U.S. Water Alliance hosts a number of events. One particular event that is scheduled in August is the One Water Leadership Summit (OWL), which seeks to drive the notion of water as an integrating strategy for the urban environment.

The U.S. Water Alliance has announced that Radhika Fox will be its next president. Fox is currently the director of the Value of Water Coalition and previously directed policy and government affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Innovyze recently announced that the Water Authority of Dickson County, Tenn., has chosen the company?s industry-leading InfoWater to support its large-scale, enterprise-wide geospatial water distribution network.

The Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant staff at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) in Carrboro, N.C., has received the 10-Year Directors Award from the Partnership for Safe Water.

American Water recently received two new research contracts from the Water Research Foundation (WRF). Both projects aim to help develop multi-year research agendas that will guide future WRF programs.

GHD and Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) have completed integration of their operating platforms, with the merged company operating as GHD starting on July 1.

The City of Milwaukee has been awarded a $1 million state grant for the development of Reed Street Yards, a water technology business park now under construction adjacent to the Global Water Center.