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.

Every year, the U.S. Water Alliance hosts a number of events. One particular event that is scheduled in August is the One Water Leadership Summit (OWL), which seeks to drive the notion of water as an integrating strategy for the urban environment.

The U.S. Water Alliance has announced that Radhika Fox will be its next president. Fox is currently the director of the Value of Water Coalition and previously directed policy and government affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Innovyze recently announced that the Water Authority of Dickson County, Tenn., has chosen the company?s industry-leading InfoWater to support its large-scale, enterprise-wide geospatial water distribution network.

The Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant staff at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) in Carrboro, N.C., has received the 10-Year Directors Award from the Partnership for Safe Water.

American Water recently received two new research contracts from the Water Research Foundation (WRF). Both projects aim to help develop multi-year research agendas that will guide future WRF programs.

GHD and Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) have completed integration of their operating platforms, with the merged company operating as GHD starting on July 1.

The City of Milwaukee has been awarded a $1 million state grant for the development of Reed Street Yards, a water technology business park now under construction adjacent to the Global Water Center.

The U.S. Water Alliance is carrying its ?One Water? theme from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, Aug. 26-16 for its annual One Water Leadership Summit, where water experts will gather to explore the concept of integration across the water cycle and other aspects of urban environment.

ASCE’s Pipelines 2015 is the premier technical conference for professionals engaged in pipeline planning, design, construction, maintenance and repair. But Pipelines 2015 goes beyond the world-class presentations by offering a slate of networking, educational and fun events.