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An article from Engineering News discusses the importance of asset registers as the foundations of infrastructure asset management in South Africa’s municipalities. In other countries, they call it asset inventories. The article chronicles the discussions during a seminar on the foundations …
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Postponing infrastructure investments can endanger public health, a lesson that the Walkerton community in Ontario, Canada, learned the hard way when their municipal drinking water supply had E. coli and Campylobacter jejuni bacteria contamination in 2000. The water contamination sickened 2300 …
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Chennai's water crisis in the summer of 2019 has been at the forefront of international news. What hasn't been so widely reported is that authorities estimated that almost every major city in India will run out of water by 2050 if they don't implement effective management strategies. The …
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Newark, New Jersey, was hitting the headlines for the high lead levels that are currently infiltrating its municipal water system. The situation has been compared to that of Flint, Michigan, and is pretty serious. A year ago, the city handed out water filters to all residents for installation. …
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For the second time in two years, the small city of Iqaluit in arctic Northern Canada has declared a state of emergency over its dwindling water supply. Historically, the city has depended upon Lake Geraldine nearby to fill its reservoir, with the Apex River as a backup source. …
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Accessibility means uninterrupted mobility, especially with persons with some form of disabilities – people in the wheelchair, using canes, walkers, rolling walkers with seas, forearm crutches, and those with reduced mobility reach their full potential. Like many of us, these people also have …
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On August 10 the US just passed the US $1 Trillion infrastructure bill and will be deliberated in Congress (Infrastructure bill, 2021). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats, who hold the majority of Congress are taking steps to get this infrastructure plan approved while …
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Most of the time, when people don't have enough water in California, they tend to look skyward and blame the shifting climate. However, even though the climate is a major contributing factor to the constant state of drought in the Western US, it is by no means the only contributing factor and …
Auckland and Wellington are no. 1 and 4 in the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) most liveable city globally. The Global Liveability Index 2021 report includes the data gathered from 22 February to 21 March 2021 to rank the liveability of 140 cities globally. As most of the world succumbed …
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This year’s drought in the US Western states is setting a 122-year record and the worst since it started in 2000. Discover magazine says that about 90 to 100% of the West is going through a drought, with 57% facing extreme to exceptional drought. The dry conditions led to extreme …
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When the US Senate passed the $1.2 Trillion infrastructure bill this month, supporters of the massive bill hail it a crucial step to fixing and updating the nation’s infrastructure and address social and environmental issues. According to NBC News, President Biden calls it a "historic investment …
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Neglect in the water tank maintenance in some communities across the United States has sickened millions of Americans and killed thousands each year, according to the USA Today report. The problem lies in the lack of EPA regulations and rules regarding these critical infrastructures, as each …
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