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Commentary: Now is the time to amend WIFIA

Commentary: Now is the time to amend WIFIA

By John Ryan Congress certainly looks like an exciting place this fall, with plenty of political fireworks and intense drama over spending. But there’s no doubt legislators and their constituents will also want to see progress on some basic things that are clearly beneficial, aren’tRead More

Stantec selected for Kentucky floodplain analysis project

Stantec selected for Kentucky floodplain analysis project

Water Management September 29, 2023 at 1:15 pm

Design and engineering company Stantec has been awarded a new $25 million (USD) 5-year single-award, task-order master services agreement with the Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) to provide flood risk mapping, assessment, and planning services. A portion of the first task order will focus onRead More

BlueConduit announces integration with Esri

BlueConduit announces integration with Esri

Water Management September 28, 2023 at 12:41 pm

Water analytics company BlueConduit has announced an integration with Esri that will bring its machine learning to utilities using Esri’s ArcGIS technology. BlueConduit says its water utility customers will now have the ability to view and update service line inventories in a single platform usingRead More

EPA announces new round of WIFIA loans

EPA announces new round of WIFIA loans

Water Management September 25, 2023 at 8:39 am

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced $7.5 billion in available Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funding. To date, EPA’s WIFIA program has issued $19 billion in loans to help finance 109 projects across the country, creating more than 60,000 jobs. ThisRead More

Mitigating the Climate Impact on Water Infrastructure: 5 Things You Can Do

Mitigating the Climate Impact on Water Infrastructure: 5 Things You Can Do

Water Management September 25, 2023 at 7:50 am

By Sandra DiMatteo After decades of warning signs that climate change is happening, most people are now admitting that it is real, and it is not pretty. Droughts are getting dryer, and floods are getting wetter and more frequent. Water resources organizations are struggling toRead More

Survey: 66% of Americans say water requires more federal funding

Survey: 66% of Americans say water requires more federal funding

Water Finance, Water Management September 25, 2023 at 7:25 am

The American Business Water Coalition (ABWC), a national organization comprised of water-reliant businesses, has released a “U.S. Water Infrastructure Funding and Business Risks Survey,” examining voter opinions across a wide spectrum of water issues. The survey focused on water issues such as water quality, federalRead More

Company celebrates 100,000 water leaks detected

Company celebrates 100,000 water leaks detected

Water Loss, Water Management September 25, 2023 at 7:00 am

A series of subsurface leaks found by Pennsylvania American Water using ASTERRA’s satellite leak detection solution represent an important milestone for the latter — the company has now detected more than 100,000 water leaks on behalf of customers worldwide. “In honoring this milestone, we recognizeRead More

The Digital Transformation of Small Utilities

The Digital Transformation of Small Utilities

Water Management September 18, 2023 at 9:59 am

Improving Performance of the Long Tail of the Water Industry By Doug Hatler According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there are more than 50,000 drinking water and wastewater utilities in operation in the United States serving a population of less than 10,000. TheseRead More

Fitch: Water utilities on solid footing despite possible recession

Fitch: Water utilities on solid footing despite possible recession

Public Utility Finance, Water Finance September 18, 2023 at 8:39 am

Fitch Ratings says U.S. water utilities weathered the COVID-19 pandemic remarkably well and appear to be on solid footing, even as the broader economy inches closer to recession, according to the credit ratings company’s annual peer review for the sector. According to the review, slowerRead More

AMR Helps Drive a Small, Growing Illinois Water Network

AMR Helps Drive a Small, Growing Illinois Water Network

AMR/AMI, Water Management September 14, 2023 at 1:30 pm

By Osvaldo Zambrano Located in the State of Illinois, Exeter-Merritt Water Cooperative delivers safe and high-quality drinking water to approximately 300 residents in the counties of Scott and Morgan. In 2011, the cooperative decided to do a phase 3 expansion and include additional homes inRead More