Water Management

Back in November 2012, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works drafted a bill to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). The new bill, to continue the WRDA program, came on the heels of Hurricane Sandy which resulted in the deaths of more than 120 people, destroyed entire neighborhoods on the East Coast and cost billions of dollars in damage to property and businesses. A reminder – the WRDA program serves to authorize select projects and programs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Water and energy are inextricably linked, a concept referred to more and more commonly as the water-energy nexus. In short, it describes the interrelationship of water used in the generation of energy, and energy consumed in the use of water. Most forms of electricity generation require the use of water at some stage.

According to the National Research Council of Canada, asbestos cement-lined water mains degrade when subjected to long-term exposure to sulfates and byproducts of biofilms that form on mains’ interior walls.

The Opening General Session for the Energy and Water Conference, May 6-9, 2013, will feature several big name speakers including Dr. Holmes Hummel of the U.S. Department of Energy, Bob Balzar, Tennessee Valley Authority vice president and Dr. Cynthia Truelove, Stanford University?s Water-Energy Research InitiativeRead More

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half ? 55 percent ? are in poor condition for aquatic life.Read More

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