Water Management

American Water Works Company, Inc., recently announced the financial close of its sale of regulated operations in Arizona and New Mexico to EPCOR USA at a purchase price of $470 million.

Itron, Inc. recently announced that Water Utility of Madison, Wis., will implement Itron?s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for Project H20, the city?s program to automate the collection and analysis of water meter reads.

FMI (www.fminet.com), the largest provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry, announced the release of its Nonresidential Construction Index report for the first quarter of 2012.

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced on Feb. 21, that it was chosen by the Cairns Regional Council, under the Port Douglas Demand Management Campaign, to deploy its advanced water metering solution.

Poseidon Resources on Feb. 10 announced the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board (SARWQCB) unanimously approved an amended National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) has published a new book to provide utility managers, operators and water quality staff, city officials and others with a thorough understanding of when design-build (DB) project delivery is a good choice for a water or wastewater utility.

Many utilities are suffering the triple pressures of fiscal austerity, water scarcity and aging infrastructure. In the fight to save water and replace or upgrade infrastructure, utilities are at the proverbial intersection of Rock Street and Hard Place Avenue.

While no one knows precisely at what rate and by how much the climate will ultimately change, there is no doubt that the Earth?s average surface temperature is on the rise ? the result of a significant increase in the concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In 2008, General Electric (GE) released a white paper providing a menu of policy options for addressing water scarcity through recycling and reuse. In that paper, the company discussed how governments in water scarce regions are looking for ways to expand water recycling and reuse, but they often have difficulty finding information on the policy options from which they might choose.

As more municipalities mandate environmental purchasing policies, how are managers to distinguish between brazen greenwashing and the legitimate claims of environmentally responsible manufacturers?