The Economist Magazine published a very interesting interactive timeline showing city size and growth from 1950-2030. You can play the whole sequence or move the slider to individual years and study trends and comparisons. You can click on individual cities and see the growth trend. …
Why Water Infrastructure Investment Will Be More Valuable than Gold, Oil and Phones
Some members of the American Stock Market think that investing in water will have very lucrative benefits in the near future. Stocks in American water companies are already paying nice little dividends to their investors and can only continue to rise as water becomes scarcer. Jeff Siegel of …
Sacramento’s Sewage Treatment Infrastructure Project Raises Level of Service
A project that has been years in the making, and is considered the biggest project in the history of the area, is soon to officially start in Sacramento, California. The "Echo" project is to begin in May, but some preliminary work has already started. KCRA reports: "With an estimated price …
How to Develop Financial Summary and Funding for Asset Management Planning
What are the items included in preparing your financial summary and funding? How will you classify and detail expenditures? What are the other infrastructure asset management planning items to be considered in developing financial funding? In the "Financial Summary and Funding - FULL …
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Tackling One of America’s Biggest Infrastructure Concerns with Super Bowl Analogy
President Obama has called a lot of attention to the state of American infrastructure and its future demands over the last month and many newsagents have commented, argued, and discussed the subject since the State of the Union address. One common thought that perseveres through the articles is …
Infrastructure Management Impact of Privatizing Water Utility Systems
After a January meeting, the council of Columbia, SC is officially open to selling or leasing the city's water and sewage systems to a private, for-profit company. Many companies have expressed their interest in such a venture, though it has had next to no publicity. The systems generate …
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Infrastructure Asset Management News – Read Some Industry Reflections
Inframanage.com is happy to present the news articles on infrastructure asset management we have collated. Ross provides a brief comment on each item, pointing out the importance of infrastructure asset management to the situation described in the article. PLEASE CLICK ON ANY ITEM ON THE NEWS …
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