American Water recently announced that its subsidiary, American Water Resources, Inc., has been selected by the New York City Water Board as the official service line protection provider to homeowners.

When experts in the water sector talk about improving the infrastructure in a given city or region, we hear a lot about the importance of pipe condition assessment, leak detection and how to deal with major concerns like corrosion. Despite the dry, desert climate ofRead More

American Water recently announced that it received a grant from the Water Research Foundation to conduct a joint research project with Utah State University to measure the frequency of backflow through residential water meters.

Poseidon Resources (Surfside) LLC, developer and owner of the 50 million gallons-per-day (mgd) Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project recently announced it has selected GHD to lead a team to serve as the owner?s engineer for the project.

Hanson Pressure Pipe has expanded manufacturing capabilities at its Palatka, Fla. plant, enabling increased production of larger-diameter and longer-laying lengths of B-303 bar-wrapped concrete cylinder pipe (B-303).

Pennsylvania American Water announced last week that crews have completed installation of the new water main in the Camp Hill Borough to improve reliability for customers, reduce service disruptions and increase water flows for firefighting. The company?s approximately $1.6 million improvement project replaced pipeline dating as far back as 1916.

The Water Design-Build Council (WDBC) has contracted with the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) for a 2012 survey research project.

Aiming to lower energy costs and decrease our carbon footprint, New Jersey American Water, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Water, is investing in solar technology. Most recently, the company installed solar modules on a reservoir at the Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Millburn, N.J.

Changing climate patterns observed over the past decade, combined with accelerating population growth and limited availability of new and inexpensive fresh water supplies, have propelled the importance of desalination as an essential future water supply source in the United States.

In June, UIM presented Part 1 of our Operational Asset Management series. This month in the follow-up piece, our contributing authors from Harris County, Texas discuss leveraging investments in asset management and the various benefits of implementing such a system.