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Proactive Infrastructure Management for Water Quality Monitoring
Proactive Infrastructure Management for Water Quality Monitoring The water distribution network is a major asset, which requires careful management to deliver safe and compliant water to the public. Our license partners, Siemens Water Technologies, have produced a document to help with proactive infrastructure management, for the effective management of water quality within your network. ...
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Monitoring and Efficiency in Smart Cities
In the near future, water sector stakeholders will be facing major challenges, including the ageing of infrastructure and energy and water shortages, among others. To deal with them, ACCIONA is increasingly embracing the concept of smart water. A challenge All stakeholders in the water sector - particularly water infrastructure managers - face major challenges in the coming years. In ...
By ACCIONA S.A
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EPA provides $15 million to help small drinking water and wastewater systems across the country/funding will help small systems better serve local communities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will provide up to $15 million in funding for training and technical assistance to small drinking and wastewater systems, defined as systems that serve fewer than 10,000 people, and private well owners. The funding will help provide water system staff with training and tools to enhance system operations and management practices, and ...
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EPA Kicks Off Campus RainWorks Challenge to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its fourth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge for undergraduate and graduate students to design green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and increase resiliency to climate change. Student teams, working with a faculty advisor, will propose green infrastructure projects for their campuses, demonstrating how managing ...
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EPA awards $15 million to assist U.S. small drinking water and wastewater systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $15 million in funding to provide training and technical assistance to small drinking and wastewater systems – those serving fewer than 10,000 people – and to private well owners. The funding will help provide training and tools to improve small system operations and management practices, promoting sustainability and ...
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Tetra Tech Wins $46 Million USAID Rule of Law Project
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that theU.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Company a five-year,$46 million single-award task order under Tetra Tech’s existing Rule of Law contract to support continued improvement of government and social systems inJordan. Jordanfaces numerous social challenges including water scarcity and reliance on costly ...
By Tetra Tech
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Lynchburg Among 43 Communities to Get EPA Technical Assistance for Sustainability Goals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Lynchburg, Va., and 42 other rural, urban, and suburban communities will receive technical assistance to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while safeguarding people’s health and the environment. EPA consulted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. ...
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Students Compete to Design Green Stormwater Management Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is engaging teams of college students to develop green infrastructure system designs to manage stormwater runoff in its third annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. Registration ends Oct. 3. Stormwater is one of the nation’s most significant challenges to water quality. It pollutes our nation’s streams, rivers and lakes, posing a threat to human ...
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Fort Lauderdale, FL among recipients of smart growth assistance provided by EPA
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the City of Fort Lauderdale, FL will receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. EPA consulted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation to select this year’s 43 recipients from 121 applicants through a competitive ...
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Green streets-green jobs-green towns grants available to improve chesapeake bay water quality, cities, and towns
Today the Chesapeake Bay Trust, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the state of Maryland unveiled an expanded Green Streets-Green Jobs-Green Towns grant initiative to help cities and towns in the Chesapeake Bay watershed accelerate greening efforts that improve watershed protection, community livability, and economic vitality. Building on the success of the initial round of grants, this ...
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HyrdaClam recognised by Siemens as key to proactively measure high-resolution turbidity.
HyrdaClam® recognised by Siemens as key to proactively measure high-resolution turbidity. Water service providers responsible for potable water distribution systems were urged to become more proactive in their collection of turbidity data, and their networks smarter, at a speciality water industry forum associated with the Siemens’ “Answers For Industry” conference held ...
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EPA to Provide Smart Growth Technical Assistance to Dubuque, Iowa
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Dubuque, Iowa, will receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program. The announcement was made at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Kansas City, Mo. EPA awarded Dubuque a Land Use and Water Quality Workshop. The workshop will provide Dubuque technical assistance to ...
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China assigns more funds to improve water quality as 2020 deadline looms
With 2020 fast approaching the Chinese government has set out intentions to invest more money to meet water quality improvement targets. During the recent National People’s Congress (NPC), a draft budget report suggested RMB30 billion ($4.5 billion) could be invested on water pollution management infrastructure over the next year. According to GWI, this is a 45 percent increase on the ...
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$59,876 Grant to University of Nebraska-Lincoln
EPA is providing a $59,876 urban waters grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to evaluate the effectiveness of the Saddle Hills neighborhood’s green infrastructure in metropolitan Omaha, Neb. UNL and partners, including the City of Omaha and the Nebraska Forest Service, will assess green infrastructure practices by creating a water quality assessment database and developing a ...
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Tetra Tech Wins $20 Million U.S. EPA Research Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today it has been awarded a five-year, $20 million multiple-award contract by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Through this contract Tetra Tech will support testing, evaluation, and reporting to address chemical, biological, radiological and other contaminating agents. Tetra Tech will ...
By Tetra Tech
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IIT wins EPA Campus RainWorks challenge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, won first prize among small institutions in the Agency’s first Campus RainWorks Challenge. EPA created the challenge to inspire the next generation of landscape architects, planners and engineers to develop innovative green infrastructure. The student team will receive a $2,500 cash ...
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EBRD EUR 80m boosts role of private industry in east European water sector
The EBRD is investing up to EUR 80 million equity to help raise the quality of water supply and waste water operations across eastern Europe. This equity investment in a private company active in the water sector will also expand the role of the private sector and so boost competition in an area traditionally dominated by the state. The EBRD is buying a stake in aqualia new europe, a company ...
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EPA to Provide Smart Growth Technical Assistance to Atchison, Kan.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Atchison, Kan., will receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program. The announcement was made at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Kansas City, Mo. EPA awarded Atchison, Kan., a Land Use and Water Quality Workshop. The workshop will provide Atchison technical ...
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In the Wake of Sandy, Conference Offers Green Solutions for New Jersey Communities; EPA and Rutgers University Co-Host Green Infrastructure Conference at Duke Farms - Public Encouraged to Attend
A conference to be held on July 31 in Hillborough, New Jersey will highlight the critical importance of using green infrastructure to manage storm water and enhance treatment of sewage and better withstand storms like Sandy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension are co-sponsoring the New Jersey Green Infrastructure Forum July 31 at Duke Farms in ...
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EPA Helping Five State Capitals Develop Green Infrastructure, Improve Climate Resiliency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will provide technical assistance to help five capital cities develop green infrastructure that will contribute to greener, more vibrant neighborhoods and increase resiliency from the impacts of our changing climate. EPA selected the following cities for this year’s Greening America’s Capitals program through a ...
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