Denver-based water and sanitation nonprofit Water For People (WFP) announced last week the appointment of Eleanor Allen as the organization?s new CEO.

With the Golden State facing one of the most severe droughts on record, the City of San Bruno, Calif., is taking its conservation and customer service efforts to the next level.

William J. Press, GISP, has joined EBA Engineering, Inc. (EBA) as the company?s GIS technical lead. He will provide GIS expertise for water systems projects and help enhance the company?s GIS and asset management services across all sectors.

Pipelines 2015, the annual meeting of ASCE’s Pipelines Division, is regarded as the premier technical conference for professionals engaged in pipeline planning, design, construction, maintenance and repair. This year, conference organizers announced that a record number of abstracts were received, resulting in the strongest slate of presentations to date.

The inaugural Smart H2O Summit, scheduled for Aug. 17-19 in San Francisco, has been postponed until further notice.

As California continues to experience severe drought, industry leaders continue to look for innovative solutions and encourage public participation in solving our water and energy problems.

IDModeling, Inc. is deploying its flagship smart water enterprise software, Sedaru, for the City of Chandler, Arizona (City).

The Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center and UIM hosted a very successful and informative two-day asset management conference and Workshop in Denver last week. The event was held in conjunction with WERF, Denver Water and Aurora Water.

AWWA, AMWA and WEF have received a 2015 Power of A Gold Award from the American Society of Association Executives for their work on the passage of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.

Fort Collins Utilities was recently recognized as the first utility in Colorado, and among the first in the nation, to receive the Directors Award in the Partnership for Safe Water?s Distribution System Optimization Program.