Water Management

High-quality drinking water and wastewater systems are essential to public health, business and quality of life in the United States.

Sometimes you need more than one product to get the job done. The Department of Water for the city of Dayton, Ohio, recently used two complementary technologies from Insituform Technologies LLC and Corrpro Companies to tackle a variety of pipe problems on a 10-in water line running along Guthrie Road on the outskirts of the city.

Water and wastewater utilities are faced with an increasing problem associated with ensuring reliability of their large diameter pipelines, many of which exceed 100 years of service life.

It seems likely that water will become increasingly recognized as one of the key ?factors of production? in industry ? a key criterion in the development of public policy and in both economic and personal decision making.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) have recently worked together to develop the WATERiD project (WATER Infrastructure Database), an online record of information to help bring attention to failing water infrastructures and aid planning and funding.

Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world?s most challenging water issues, has broken ground on a 10,000-sq ft extension of its manufacturing facility in Bridgeport, N.J., to support continuing growth in the dewatering segment.

Two design-build projects were awarded to RJN Group, Inc. (RJN) in late 2011. The two projects are both contractor-led sewer relocation projects, driven by redevelopment efforts in St. Louis, Mo., and Southwestern Illinois.

More than 160 water utility leaders took to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. last week, to show their support for draft legislation that would create a federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA).

The massive investment needed for buried drinking water infrastructure in the United States totals more than $1 trillion between now and 2035.

The American Public Works Association (APWA) announced that APWA member Philip Guerin of Worcester, Mass., was recently honored by the White House as a ?Champion of Change? Innovator in Infrastructure for creating jobs in his community and using innovative techniques to develop valuable projects that help improve America?s infrastructure.