The independent spirit and can-do attitude of our American heritage is alive and well in rural southeastern Idaho, where board members of the Fairview Water District rejected the opinion of state regulators and embraced new HDPE technology.

ADS, Can Clay Corp., CertainTeed, Gajeske Inc., Hobas Pipe, iNTERpipe, Logan Clay, Snap-Tite, & Underground Solutions

Today, utility providers around the world are being forced to confront a 21st century problem: How to more effectively manage their regions? natural resources to supply water and other critical services to their customers, while contending with aging infrastructure, population growth and limited resources.

Each day, more Americans are confronting an unsettling fact of life in the 21st century: our supplies of clean, dependable, affordable water are more fragile than at any time in our history.

On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month after assuming office, President Barack Obama signed into law the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

In October 2009, Black & Veatch hosted a roundtable discussion on water reuse with 14 water and wastewater industry leaders attending the WEFTEC conference in Orlando, Fla.

American Water, the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced in December that its subsidiary, American Water Enterprises, has acquired Environmental Management Corp. (EMC) from The Linde Group.

Bill Shook (right) of AP/M Permaform talks to UIM Publisher Bernie Krzys at the UIM Conference December 15, 2009, at IUPUI in Indianapolis.

IUPUI Professor Tom Iseley (left) talks to UIM Publisher Bernie Krzys at the UIM Conference December 15, 2009, at IUPUI in Indianapolis.

Geospatial Holdings, Inc. and Infrastructure Technologies have entered into a strategic alliance to jointly market Geospatial Corporation?s three-dimensional (3D) digital pipeline mapping technologies and I.T.?s infrastructure inspection software and services.