American Water announced last month it has been awarded a research grant from the Water Research Foundation to investigate removal mechanisms of nitrosamine precursors during the filtration of drinking water.

Aegion Corp. recently announced that its subsidiary, Insituform Technologies, LLC (Insituform), has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $10.7 million from the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD).

A record number of 22,589 registrants and 971 companies using 297,400 total sq ft of exhibit space has designated WEFTEC 2013 as the largest in WEF’s 86-year history.

The City of Cincinnati and Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) recently began operations of a $30 million state-of-the-art Ultraviolet (UV) Disinfection Treatment Facility.

Last week, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., signed a package of bills to help expand access to clean drinking water in California.

Last week, New York City Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland announced the completion of the world?s largest ultraviolet (UV) treatment facility.

The International Private Water Association (IPWA) will hold a Financial Tools Taskforce meeting via conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. (EST).

With the House, Senate and President agreeing to budget/debt ceiling legislation Wednesday night, furloughed employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are heading back to work.

Water utilities across the United States face a major funding gap related to buried pipeline infrastructure. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the difference between what is needed for infrastructure renewal and what utilities can afford to spend is between $200 billion and $1 trillion over the next 25 years.

Pipes that burst as a result of transients and surges within a piping network are very common problems throughout the world. Not only are the maintenance costs of these repairs extremely expensive, but when you add in possible litigation for third party damages, combined with the potentially significant value (cost) of the lost water, you can quickly realize the significance of what may appear simply as ?another pipe burst.?