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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...