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AWWA advocates for water infrastructure investment as Drinking Water Week ends

As Drinking Water Week concludes, the American Water Works Association and water professionals across North America are advocating for investment in the repair and replacement of local water infrastructure. It’s critical that water infrastructure is maintained properly given that public health, economic vitality, fire protection and quality of life rely on it. However, much of the water ...

May 12, 2017

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

New Poll Shows Water Still a Concern for Californians

Though the economy is the dominant issue for Californians, voters remain concerned about the state's water supply and agree California should make major investments to upgrade and modernize its water supply system, according to a new statewide survey released today by the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA). The survey, conducted in late November by Field Research Corporation on ...

Dec. 13, 2011

By ACWA Services Ltd

Water Environment Federation named to the 2010 associations advance America honor roll

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) has been named to the 2010 Associations Advance America Honor Roll for its public education initiative, Water Is Life, and Infrastructure Makes It Happen. Sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and The Center for Association Leadership, the national awards competition recognizes organizations’ whose programs and activities ...

Feb. 24, 2010

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Coordination meeting on ratification of the HNS Convention

At the invitation of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands, representatives from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands met at The Hague on Thursday 12 December 2019, to discuss the progress made thus far by their States towards the ratification of the 2010 HNS Protocol. As discussed at previous IOPC Funds’ meetings, a coordinated approach to the ...

Dec. 13, 2019

By International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds)

Balfour Beatty acquires US water and wastewater contractor

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announces today that its US Construction Services division has acquired Fru-Con Construction LLC, a leading water and wastewater infrastructure contractor, for a net cash consideration of US$20 million (£12 million). Fru-Con, which is based in Virginia, has annual revenue of approximately US$80 million (£49 million) and was ...

Jun. 17, 2011

By Balfour Beatty

Pennsylvania looks to its own water infrastructure funding

By executive order, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has established a high-level task force that will evaluate what is needed to ensure Pennsylvania maintains a sustainable water and wastewater infrastructure in view of continued budget cuts from the federal government in recent years. A federal Clean Water Needs Survey found that Pennsylvania is facing nearly $11 billion in unmet drinking ...

Feb. 29, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Financing water for sustainable growth

“Water is a political issue and financing it will require convincing political decision makers,” stated the President of the World Water Council, Benedito Braga, during a standing-room-only event entitled “Financing Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Growth” organized Tuesday, 30 August, during this year’s World Water Week in Stockholm. Around 300 people attended ...

Sep. 13, 2016

By World Water Council

AWWA urges increased WIFIA funding as communities line up for loans

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) today celebrated news that 43 entities have expressed interest in loans through the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) and urged increased funding to confront the U.S. water infrastructure challenge. AWWA, the chief architect of the WIFIA program, continues to advocate for WIFIA and State Revolving Funds on Capitol Hill. At the ...

May 3, 2017

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Ohio Congressman Gibbs urges creation of WIFIA finance tool to reduce water infrastructure costs

U.S. Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) today urged water utility leaders to ask their Congressional representatives to co-sponsor draft legislation that would create a federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA). Speaking before more than 160 water utility leaders from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), Rep. Gibbs said ...

Mar. 8, 2012

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

D&WR: Aquatech Wins China Deal with Zero Liquid Discharge

D&WR, October 20, 2015 — Industrial and infrastructure water purification technology firm, Aquatech, has won a contract to provide water treatment with zero liquid discharge (ZLD) for a coal to liquid fuels (CTL) conversion project in China. The ZLD plant will recycle wastewater at more than 55 Ml/d discharged from a 4 Mt a year CTL plant being developed by Shenhua Ningxia Coal ...

Oct. 20, 2015

By Aquatech International Corporation

EPA issues clean water and drinking water infrastructure sustainability policy (DC)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Sustainability Policy with the goal of increasing the sustainability of water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States. Communities across the country are facing challenges in making costly upgrades and repairs to their aging water infrastructure, which include sewer systems and ...

Oct. 4, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Ohio Congressman Gibbs urges creation of WIFIA finance tool to reduce water infrastructure costs

U.S. Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) today urged water utility leaders to ask their Congressional representatives to co-sponsor draft legislation that would create a federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA). Speaking before more than 160 water utility leaders from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), Rep. Gibbs said ...

Mar. 7, 2012

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

AWWA advocates for legislation to reduce water infrastructure costs to consumers

In testimony today before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) endorsed draft legislation that would create a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA) to reduce the cost of water infrastructure projects for utility customers. The testimony came one day after AWWA, the world’s largest association of water professionals, released ...

Feb. 29, 2012

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

AWWA lends support to sustainable water Infrastructure act

U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) and U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) and Geoffrey Davis (R-KY) recently introduced the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Act of 2011, which would remove state volume caps for water and wastewater projets. The American Water Works Association (AWWA) issued the following statement: “The American Water Works Association ...

May 18, 2011

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Actions for a water-secure world

The Budapest Water Summit 2016 ended on Wednesday after three days of High Level Panels and Forums and months of international consultative processes. During a special ceremony, participants presented the Budapest Water Summit Messages and Policy Recommendations which lay out the concrete directions and guidelines needed to ensure the successful implementation of the Agenda 2030 and its ...

Dec. 2, 2016

By World Water Council

Senate Committee approves WIFIA

A US Senate Committee today passed legislation that would create a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority, a development the American Water Works Association hailed as pivotal in confronting America’s trillion-dollar water infrastructure challenge. If enacted into law, WIFIA would make low-interest federal loans available to address large water infrastructure projects in ...

Mar. 20, 2013

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

American Water CEO says national report proves critical need to invest in water infrastructure

“The report by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) underscores the critical nature of this nation’s aging water and wastewater infrastructure, and the urgent need for investment to ensure the integrity and quality for future generations. American Water itself estimates that its own company-funded capital investment will total between approximately $4 and $4.5 billion over the next five ...

Jan. 29, 2009

By American Water

WEF Urges passage of new water infrastructure financing legislation

Water Environment Federation (WEF) Executive Director Jeff Eger joined with other industry leaders today on Capitol Hill to urge members of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass new legislation that would fund water infrastructure needs. Eger’s testimony, presented to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, ...

Feb. 28, 2012

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Value of Water Coalition to Host Panel on Critical State of U.S. Water Infrastructure

Communities across the country rely on aging water infrastructure systems in need of repair. Yet for too long, water has been the "unseen infrastructure.” We are at a critical moment in time when addressing U.S. water infrastructure must become a national priority. To address this disconnect, the Value of Water Coalition will host an in-depth conversation on the current condition of water ...

May 6, 2014

By National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA)

AWWA praises legislation to increase investment in water infrastructure

The American Water Works Association today celebrated the unveiling of a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) in two pieces of Senate legislation. “The introduction of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act marks an important step forward in confronting America’s urgent water infrastructure challenge,” said AWWA Executive Director David LaFrance. ...

Nov. 15, 2012

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)