water infrastructure investment Articles
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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 ...
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Linking water policy innovation and urban renewal: the case of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Different strategy positions are possible with regard to new urban water infrastructural investments. A relatively new position argues that new water infrastructure needs to be linked to ongoing urban developments. This article investigates how the urban water management organizations in Rotterdam developed its climate adaptation strategy by creating urban development strategies that are ...
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Dealing With Aging Water Infrastructure in the US
As old systems are replaced, water planners have a chance to adopt decentralization, a new paradigm for the 21st century Fluence last reported on the state of aging water infrastructure in the United States four years ago, and the country is still facing many of the same daunting challenges. Yet water management has made some improvements, and there is cause for optimism with a great deal of ...
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Challenges of public water provision in Nigerian cities: a review
In spite of the importance of adequate water quality and quantity for human health and survival, public water supply coverage in Nigerian cities appears to be decreasing and deteriorating. Hence, this study was designed to assess the challenges of public water provision in Nigerian cities. Some of the reasons for this deterioration include: inadequate water supply policy, lack of autonomy for ...
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American Jobs Plan Presents Opportunities for Decentralized Water Treatment
The plan changes how we think about the basics by emphasizing infrastructure renewal On March 31, the White House announced its American Jobs Plan (AJP), which it said would “invest in America in a way we have not invested since we built the interstate highways and won the Space Race.” President Joe Biden said, “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges.” The ...
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Risk–based sequential allocation of competing sanitation infrastructure investments
Given severe sanitation service shortages, infrastructure interdependencies and extreme scarcity of funding that prevail in many developing countries, the allocation of funds across the three services of providing drinking water, wastewater and sewage and solid waste is vital to their sustained expansion. This paper adopts an approach to resource allocation for the three services based on the ...
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A planning algorithm for quantifying decentralised water management opportunities in urban environments
With global change bringing about greater challenges for the resilient planning and management of urban water infrastructure, research has been invested in the development of a strategic planning tool, DAnCE4Water. The tool models how urban and societal changes impact the development of centralised and decentralised (distributed) water infrastructure. An algorithm for rigorous assessment of ...
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A critical moment to harness green infrastructure—not concrete—to secure clean water
Natural ecosystems provide essential services for our communities. Forests and wetlands, for example, filter the water we drink, protect neighborhoods from floods and droughts, and shade aquatic habitat for fish populations. While nature provides this “green infrastructure,” water utilities and other decision-makers often attempt to replicate these services with concrete-and-steel ...
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Addressing Water Quality in the Philippines
High levels of nutrients in Laguna de Bay near Manila are responsible for an overgrowth of water hyacinths and a depletion of oxygen levels in the water. Wastewater treatment regulations aim to improve economic and health problems The Republic of the Philippines, which comprises more than 7,000 islands, has the fifth longest coastline of any nation in the world at more than 36,000 miles. But ...
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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 ...
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Are our Water Systems at Risk?
Assessing the Financial Sustainability of BC’s Municipal Water and Sewer Systems Reliable water, sewer, and storm water systems are essential to public health, a clean environment, and a strong economy. But British Columbia’s systems may be at risk – aging infrastructure, growth, strengthened regulations, seismic risk, and climate change are driving the need for significant ...
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Lessons Learned from Cape Town’s Day Zero Water Crisis
Climate change a major factor, but waste, infrastructure problems, and planning must be examined In early 2018, three years into an unprecedented drought, the South African city of Cape Town found itself facing the possibility that its water taps might simply run dry. Day Zero, the exact day on which that was predicted to happen, varied, but it was generally placed in March or April. The crisis ...
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U.S. Sewage and Water Bills Going Up
Climate change and aging water infrastructure account for some of the sector’s volatility A new report shows that municipal sewage and water bills in United States households have risen by 3.6% over the previous year, bringing the mean U.S. monthly bill to $104. Over a decade, the average price has spiked 30%, and over the previous eight years, prices outpaced inflation in the 50 most ...
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Efrat Peled: Good Business
As CEO and chairman of Arison Investments, Efrat Peled manages a $2.5 billion-plus portfolio of finance, real estate, infrastructure, energy and water efficiency investments in 40 countries across five continents. As part of the Arison Group, which brings together business and philanthropy on a global scale, Arison Investments is guided by the vision of the owner, Shari Arison, to “combine ...
By Ensia
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Our drinking water systems are a disaster. What can we do?
In the wake of the Flint, communities turn to innovative technology and financing to prevent the next crisis. People in developed countries turn on the tap and safe drinking water flows, a dramatic health benefit they tend to take for granted. That complacency was dramatically disrupted last year when children in Flint, Michigan, started testing positive for lead poisoning and the source was ...
By Ensia
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What is the Build-Own-Operate (BOO) Model?
The BOO model delivers needed infrastructure with no up-front investment As public and private entities in developing countries adopt modern water and wastewater treatment — and those in developed countries deal with the need to replace legacy infrastructure — they often face the same dilemma: how to pay for it. The build-own-operate (BOO) contract is a project delivery model ...
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Future-proofing Against Operational and Labor Challenges While Maintaining Critical Infrastructure
Before COVID-19’s arrival, critical infrastructure operators and their supporting contractors were well aware of the need to effectively recruit new employees as more and more skilled field employees approached retirement, while concurrently working to upskill the existing workforce and begin leveraging new technologies to fill the resulting gap. Now, the need (and desire) to work remotely, ...
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Climate Change Threatens Island States
Researchers have developed an index to show how vulnerable island tourism industries are to climate change The 38 small island developing states (SIDS) recognized by the United Nations, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and others, are highly vulnerable to climate change and exceptionally dependent on tourism, causing the islands to face an existential crisis. By 2200, climate change is expected ...
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Water Technology: Five advantages of implementation
Water technology has gone from being an idea of the future to a real need. The current global water situation requires intelligent solutions which can tackle the challenges that lie ahead. Against this backdrop, the use of ad-hoc software multiplies the efficiency of water utilities. By water technology, we refer to innovative solutions designed to improve the management of all or part of the ...
By Idrica
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Investing in Water Infrastructure: Capital, Operations and Maintenance
This paper outlines the major challenges related to financing the gap in global water infrastructure, including those systems that provide urban and rural water supply, and sanitation and irrigation services. The paper synthesizes the extensive body of literature on this subject, providing some examples of historical trends and proposing a reform agenda to assist countries in weathering the ...
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