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.

The Water Innovation Project has announced that registration is now open to coders, policy makers, water and energy experts and interested parties for the 2015 Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon, which is being held Aug. 15-16 at General Assembly?s offices in San Francisco.

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.

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.

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.