Badger Meter recently announced it has become an Associate Partner of the Smart Cities Council (SCC), a coalition of industry thought leaders, innovators and practitioners dedicated to improving the livability, workability and sustainability of the world?s cities.

NASA has joined forces with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Geological Survey to transform satellite data designed to probe ocean biology into information that will help protect the American public from harmful freshwater algal blooms.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a field-accessible mobile website that consolidates information and tools that water utility operators and their response partners may need during an emergency.

Innovyze announced last week that it will provide worldwide support for the U.S. EPA?s flagship EPANET and SWMM public domain software.

Last week, grants totaling $200 million for clean water projects for municipalities in New York were approved in the new state budget, an issue environmental groups and local governments pushed as they deal with straining infrastructures.

A pipeline project intended to bring billions of gallons of water a year to a drought-stricken section of eastern New Mexico represents a lifeline to parched communities that are quickly running out of water. The lifeline, however, might not reach the region for more than a decade, even though officials say some areas don’t have that long before wells dry up.

UIM: Water Utility Infrastructure Management and the SWIM Center at Virginia Tech are looking for speakers for the 15th annual Water Asset Management Conference in Arlington, Va., Dec. 2-3, 2015. If you are interested in presenting to executive-level municipal representatives and consultants involved in the fields of water, wastewater and stormwater, we want to hear from you. The deadline to submit an abstract is April 1.

A Sacramento Superior Court judge has ordered the Sacramento region?s sewer agency to halt construction of a storage project, finding enough probability that a $114 million contract awarded to Teichert Construction of Davis violated state law.

A study conducted by Duke University finds that population growth could cause global demand for water to outpace supply by mid-century if current levels of consumption continue. And it wouldn’t be the first time, according to the study.

Total construction put in place (CPIP) for 2015 is predicted to grow 8 percent, according to a recent report from FMI. This supports earlier FMI predictions that CPIP will top $1 trillion in 2015, something the market has not seen since 2008.