Water Management

According to a recent poll, Texas voters say they will support the ballot initiative in November to allocate $2 billion from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to invest in water infrastructure projects.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered the city of Middletown, N.Y., to comply with federal Clean Water Act requirements for reducing pollutants in the wastewater that flows from area industrial facilities to its wastewater treatment plant.

Bob Bailey, water business president for CH2M HILL will be attending and speaking at the American Water Summit (AWS) in Washington, D.C., along with other water experts from the firm.

American Water announced last month it has been awarded a research grant from the Water Research Foundation to investigate removal mechanisms of nitrosamine precursors during the filtration of drinking water.

The City of Cincinnati and Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) recently began operations of a $30 million state-of-the-art Ultraviolet (UV) Disinfection Treatment Facility.

Last week, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., signed a package of bills to help expand access to clean drinking water in California.

Last week, New York City Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland announced the completion of the world?s largest ultraviolet (UV) treatment facility.

The International Private Water Association (IPWA) will hold a Financial Tools Taskforce meeting via conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. (EST).

Aegion Corp. recently announced that its subsidiary, Insituform Technologies, LLC (Insituform), has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $10.7 million from the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD).

With the House, Senate and President agreeing to budget/debt ceiling legislation Wednesday night, furloughed employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are heading back to work.