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The White House estimates that $600 billion will be needed to address US water and wastewater infrastructure improvements in the next two decades. According to an article in The Hill, Vice President Biden is set to announce a trio of new Federal initiatives designed to spur new infrastructure …
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Water Crisis is the Top Global Risk says the Word Economic Forum in its updated 2015 Global Risk Assessment. The assessment has also changed the grouping of Water Crisis from an environmental risk to social risk, providing much wider implications to the risk. Brett Walton of Circle of …
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The Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exhibition (UCT) is the premier event in the United States focusing on the total underground infrastructure—trenchless, open cut, new construction, and rehabilitation. UCT will be held at the George R. Brown Convention …
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The State of New Jersey has a new bill on the cards that follows a growing trend in the USA: municipal water privatization. This bill is titled the "Water Infrastructure Protection Act" and passed the state's Assembly on December 15th. It aims to protect aging water systems that are supposedly …
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Sara Jerome of Water Online wrote a thought-provoking article on how the political climate in West Virginia is shifting and may result in the deregulation of many public water utilities. From the point of view of the employees of the utilities, this is a positive outlook. "Tim Rock, …
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On Water Online's guest column, Eva Rippeteau posted a forward-thinking analysis of the ongoing problem with bursting water mains in the USA's Capital City. She observes that recent flooding due to aging infrastructure in the older parts of the country is perhaps just the tip of a …
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The US EPA, Department of Justice, and the state of Arkansas started 2015 with an announcement that the City of Fort Smith will upgrade it's sewer collection and treatment system over the next 12 years. This upgrade is intended to reduce discharges of raw sewage and other pollutants in local …
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The City of Philadelphia is starting the new year with an exciting new incentive to manage their Stormwater and Wastewater. The Philadelphia Water Department is proud to introduce two programs: the Stormwater Management Incentives Program (SMIP) and the Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP); both …
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2015 has arrived, and here at Inframanage.com we have had our first planning meeting for the year. We started our planning with a review of progress and achievements in 2014. In summary of this review - we are pleased with the progress the site has made, and we have met our major targets …
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In October 2014 the NAMS Forum 'Advanced Asset Management, A Journey to Excellence' was held in Auckland, New Zealand. The Forum organizers asked Ross to develop a presentation that provoked thought and discussion for the Forum attendees, and the technical streams that …
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It is Christmas Eve and the middle of summer here in New Zealand. Christmas is the time of our summer vacation. New Zealand has four days public holidays over Christmas and New Year, with many taking the 3 days between the public holidays to have a good break. It is very traditional in New …
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Water Research Foundation, USA have published in the final report Answers to Challenging Infrastructure Management Questions. My thanks to Dan Ellison at HDR for bringing this to my attention (via LinkedIn). This report has a wealth of good information around the management of pipelines …
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