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Remote automation and analytics for a smart water grid

Objectives identified by OFWAT include the improvement of day-to-day resilience through the reduction of the number of supply interruptions, sewer flooding and pollution incidents, the reduction of water leakage and introduction of performance commitments specifically on improving resilience to drought and flooding. Recommendations include the assessment of a wide range of options including ...

Apr. 1, 2018

By Rotork plc

EU Nations amass fines for wastewater treatment shortcomings

Wastewater Treatment Failures The European Commission’s Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive of 1991 says that cities in areas with particularly sensitive waters, including those with waterways feeding into the Danube River, shown, are required to use more stringent treatment. The European Court of Justice is starting to assess fines against European Commission member states that fail to ...

Feb. 1, 2017

By Fluence Corporation

West Bank and Gaza - State and Peace-building Fund : project proposal - water supply and sanitation improvements for West Bethlehem villages

The project will provide financing to: information determine, through a comprehensive feasibility and design study the optimal solution for sustainably managing the wastewater and wastewater reuse in five Palestinian communities in the western rural area of Bethlehem District in the West Bank, (ii) finance the replacement of piped water supply networks in four communities and construction of new ...

Jan. 9, 2013

By IWA Publishing

York Region’s Water and Wastewater Guidelines and Standards: Consensus Building – the Key to Success!

ABSTRACTPrior to August 2006, the Regional Municipality of York’s Water and Wastewater Branch was operating with an existing set of Design Guidelines and Standards which were in need of updating. These guidelines and standards were also not being consistently applied to all of the Region’s water and wastewater infrastructure projects. The Region recognized the need to improve the Design ...

Oct. 13, 2007

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Banner Bank Building – A Leader in Urban Stormwater and Graywater Reuse

Urban stormwater runoff poses unique challenges to city planners, civil engineers and property owners. As designers seek better strategies to protect watersheds from contaminated urban runoff they are also faced with pressure to reduce costs while increasing capacity. Sustainable design strategies are proving that urban stormwater rates and quantities can be reduced while improving water quality. ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Why development should focus on climate adaptation

Just as climate change disproportionately affects the poor, so must efforts to reduce its toll. One of the biggest threats to a thriving world today is that the world’s poorest people face disproportionate risk from climate change. The World Bank’s Turn Down the Heat report notes that climate change threatens to erode progress made on reducing poverty, while a Stanford study reveals ...

May 4, 2016

By Ensia

Improved governance needed in G20`s Report on infrastructure development

A few months back, I attended the US-China-Brazil Forum on Sustainable Infrastructure and Development, organized by the International Fund for China’s Environment. I was joined by a few other development experts, including representatives from the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, Pacific Environment, the Brookings Institution, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation of ...

Sep. 6, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

Emergency Vs. Maintenance Repairs for Utilities.

With populations rising throughout towns and cities in the United States there is a growing need to improve the nation’s water and wastewater infrastructures. Reliable water provisions are needed for continued development and sustenance. At the same time, it is necessary to properly discharge wastewater clinically and efficiently. Much of the inadequacies with water and wastewater assets ...

Jan. 7, 2016

By EnTech Engineering Company

How can we ensure water security for all?

Wetlands International will be speaking about this issue at the upcoming Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. The Clinton Global Initiative was established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton to convene global leaders to create and implement solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. This year’s Annual Meeting will take place on 26-29 September in New York. Water scarcity and ...

Sep. 24, 2015

By Wetlands International

Drought hits capital of Philippines

Manila, with a population that has doubled since 1985, has no fallback as monsoon fails to materialize On July 11, the reservoir of the hydroelectric Angat Dam, which supplies Manila and other nearby areas with water, reached the critically low level of 160 m. Its normal minimum operating level is 180 m, and its normal high water level is 210 m. In the early part of March, water taps began to ...

Aug. 19, 2019

By Fluence Corporation

Looking Back at the Water Industry in 2017 — And Looking Ahead

Another year came and went, and we are now well into a new one, facing the approach of spring and construction season. 2017 brought about both accomplishments and new challenges not just for us here at AdEdge Water Technologies, but also for the water industry as a whole. Looking ahead at what’s to come in 2018, changing regulations and standards may pose challenges for water utilities and ...

Mar. 2, 2018

By Adedge Water Technologies, LLC

Egypt: Financing local water management

The Nile provides Egypt with 90% of its direct water needs and 97% of its agricultural irrigation requirements. The near monopoly the Nile has on Egypt’s waters has, throughout history, shed a level of centralization on its water management. The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) is the main responsible body for managing the distribution and drainage of water, the protection ...

Apr. 5, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Create 400,000 jobs in 2010 – invest in water infrastructure

Investment in Water Infrastructure The Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) a coalition of the nation’s leading construction, engineering, conservation, labor, municipal and manufacturing organizations, firmly believes that a federal investment of $20 B in our nation’s critical water infrastructure is the single most effective means for creating quality jobs with federal funding. Leading ...

Dec. 4, 2009

By National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA)

Water: At a Tipping Point

The Stockholm World Water Week’s focus on “Water for Development” comes at an opportune time. Water as a sector in world affairs is reaching a tipping point. Over the next two decades and more, the global push for food and energy security and for sustaining urbanization will place new and increasing demands on the water sector. Ours is a world of ‘thirsty ...

Aug. 26, 2015

By DelAgua Group

Infrastructure Maintenance - An Economic Opportunity

Public safety and the cost of doing business are deeply impacted when infrastructure is neglected. Here’s a look at the high cost of low maintenance and what can be done about it. A Bridge Too Far There are over 607,000 bridges in the United States. According to the 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure,1 published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the average age ...

Jan. 15, 2015

By ASTM International

How green are those stimulus packages?

At the close of their summit meeting in London, the G-20 leaders committed to make available a $1.1 trillion program of support in addition to their national economic stimulus packages. While repairing the global financial system was the top priority, the closing communiqué stated , 'We agreed to make the best possible use of investment funded by fiscal stimulus programmes towards the goal of ...

Apr. 5, 2009

By GLOBE SERIES

Who used your water yesterday?

The answer to the question above boils down to numbers in the final analysis. With more than half of the world's population already based in urban areas the additional demand for core services such as water is overtaxing capacities for water supply and disposal in many of the world's larger cities. And the problem is only going to get worse. The proportion of the world's population that will be ...

Jun. 27, 2012

By GLOBE SERIES

Managed aquifer recharge: rediscovering nature as a leading edge technology

Use of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) has rapidly increased in Australia, USA, and Europe in recent years as an efficient means of recycling stormwater or treated sewage effluent for non-potable and indirect potable reuse in urban and rural areas. Yet aquifers have been relied on knowingly for water storage and unwittingly for water treatment for millennia. Hence if ‘leading edge’ is defined as ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

European water policies and human health — Combining reported environmental information

Society depends on the satisfactory and sustainable management of water. Historically, the primary purpose of water treatment was to protect human health, through reducing disease being transmitted through water. Subsequent measures to address environmental concerns have broadened our expectations of what water and waste water treatment should deliver. This report considers three pieces of EU ...

Nov. 30, 2016

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Obama provides economic stimulus money for important water projects

California and indeed the entire western region of the United States, face chronic issues with respect to water use management. As reported in a December 2008 article on this site, California faces special problems intensified by cycles of drought; additionally, budget shortfalls are compounding the problems by limiting what the State can accomplish. Some relief may be in sight, though; in April ...

Jun. 26, 2009

By H2bid, Inc.

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