Kurt Bruenning has joined Aclara Technologies LLC as the chief financial officer, senior vice president of finance, accounting, information technology and legal functions. Aclara is a provider of smart infrastructure technologies and software solutions to the utility industry.

The County of Los Angeles has voted to make the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program available to local residents. Los Angeles County and 84 cities within the county, including the City of Los Angeles, join more than 200 other cities and counties which have adopted HERO.

Last week, MWH Global, in partnership with Brown and Caldwell, announced it was awarded a contract by the City of San Diego to manage and assist in the delivery of Pure Water San Diego, a $2.7 billion program to provide safe, reliable and cost-effective drinking water to San Diego.

IDModeling, Inc. is deploying its flagship smart water enterprise software, Sedaru, for the City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency to help the utility distribute hydraulic, asset and operational management content.

Innovyze has announced that the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation (LASAN) Wastewater Engineering Services Division (WESD) has selected the company?s InfoMaster as its enterprise sewer planning tool.

In January, congressmen reintroduced H.R. 499, the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 2015, in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Sustainable Water Infrastructure Coalition (SWIC), the advocacy group supporting the bill and private activity bond legislation says it expects the bill to be introduced in the Senate in the coming weeks.

In 2011, the City of San Angelo in central Texas was facing a challenge any town would dread. Severe drought had left its main water source less than two years from complete exhaustion. The solution was a 63-mile pipeline that would transport well water from the Hickory Creek Aquifer near Melvin, Texas, to the water treatment plant in San Angelo.

As infrastructure ages, water utility owners are tasked with the replacement of water mains which are reaching the end of their useful life. While certain sections of water main can be replaced with a common open cut-and replace-method, others run under highways, down busy streets and under rivers.

A widening investment gap in U.S. water infrastructure is reaching a breaking point as assets reach the end of their useful lives, encouraging municipalities to consider private sector participation. Municipal governments fund 90 percent of water infrastructure but have suffered from weak credit ratings and unsustainable rates in recent years.

The White House has requested $2.3 billion for the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Funds as part of the FY2016 budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).