Water Management

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?

Water industry visits to Washington, D.C., continue to educate, but gain little traction in procuring new funding.

It has often been said that for a two-car accident to happen, both drivers have to lose focus for the same moment.

The Clean Water America Alliance announced winners of the 2012 U.S. Water Prize for watershed-based approaches toward water sustainability on Feb. 21.

While automatic meter reading has been around for several decades, technological advances combined with economic and environmental conditions are increasing interest in smart metering systems.