Water Management

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $523,000 to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the creation of shorelines in Camden, N.J. and the Barnegat Bay watershed.

Woolpert, a national infrastructure management, geospatial and design consulting firm headquartered in Dayton, recently announced it has been selected by the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) to upgrade its Infor EAM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to Infor10 EAM. Woolpert began implementation of theRead More

Last week, Congressman Robert E. Latta (R-Ohio) toured the Findlay manufacturing plant of Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS), located in his 5th Congressional District of Ohio to gain a better understanding of what local businesses need to prosper. He learned from ADS executives how theRead More

In 1597, when Sir Francis Bacon penned the concept ?Knowledge is Power? he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions. This knight and intellectual reformer developed a system whose ultimate goal wouldRead More

?Water is central to the well-being of people and the planet,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his video message for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. ?We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource.? Every action involving water managementRead More

The Virginia Tech Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for WATERThe Virginia Tech Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for WATERiD Knowledge Database Founding Membership to 5Read More

In testimony on March 13 before a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee, the American Water Works Association called for strengthening existing water infrastructure finance tools and advocated for creation of a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority. Aurel Arndt, general manager of Lehigh County Authority inRead More

Itron, Inc. has announced that Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD), a not-for-profit agency that provides water to more than 1 million residents and 35 million annual visitors in Southern Nevada, has selected Itron?s automated metering solution to improve operational efficiency and streamline meter reading.Read More

The 2012 elections meant many things to many people. The bad news is, that issues that should enjoy bipartisan support, such as water and wastewater infrastructure investment, are threatened to end up a casualty of this hostile political environment.

With the successful renaming of all subsidiaries concluded on March 1, 2013, the new group of companies, Bilfinger Water Technologies, demonstrated its development into one of the world’s leading suppliers of components and services in nearly all areas of water and wastewater technology. Bilfinger WaterRead More