Water Management

Three new board members will join the Clean Water America Alliance. Agriculture, energy and water, as well as the Western United States are represented in the appointments of Dan Keppen, executive director of the Family Farm Alliance, Kristin Mayes, professor/director of sustainability at Arizona State University Law School, and John Salo, a senior vice president at Brown and Caldwell.

Black & Veatch has appointed Cindy Wallis-Lage as President of its global water business. She will lead the company?s efforts to address billions of dollars in water infrastructure needs around the world. Aging infrastructure, economic challenges and increasing demand are factors that drive growth for service providers going forward.

Earlier in the year, Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc. (RFC) announced that William ?Bill? Stannard was elected to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer.

Poseidon Resources announced on Feb. 10 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.

Toronto council voted decisively to open up its material specifications to include alternative materials like PVC pipe for large diameter transmission water mains.

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.

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.