Many U.S. states faced water shortage and drought conditions through 2015. This was partly to do with water sources (such as groundwater or snowpack levels) and partly to do with water and infrastructure management with these sources. USA Today has produced a list of the eight most severely …
Del Puerto, California May Buy Urban Wastewater As Drought Solution
Farmers in California are struggling to keep their crops irrigated and have turned to a new solution: buying urban wastewater. The Del Puerto Water District in the Central Valley is headed by Anne Hansen, who has definitely jumped on the urban wastewater solution bandwagon. Buying water on the …
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Delaware County, Pennsylvania to Reduce Sewage Discharges into River
Recently, it came to the attention of the EPA that the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority (DELCORA) has breached the Clean Water Act with excess sewage overflow due to its combined sewer overflow into the Delaware River and its branches. In order to solve this problem, the …
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Greater Cincinnati’s Winning Infrastructure a Potential for Optimized Lifecycle Costs
The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) has given recognition to the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati's Oakley Separation Sewer Project in the Water/Wastewater category for exemplary collaboration and integration in the design-build project delivery method. The District …
New Mexico Tribes Benefit from Tribal Infrastructure Act
Ten years ago, the government of New Mexico realized that the tribal communities of the State had little to no access to basic modern water and energy systems. In response, former Gov. Bill Richardson signed the Tribal Infrastructure Act into law. The law requires that the state allocate five …
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America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Inspires Finnish Video Game INFRA
When you think of first-person video games, you usually imagine soldiers, guns, aliens, and general violence, right? Not so for a Finnish video game developer who has designed a game focused on puzzle-solving and repairing dilapidated infrastructure whilst avoiding disasters like falling bridges …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – Edmond, Oklahoma Deals with Flooding
On Thursday, the 2nd of July, Edmond, Oklahoma experienced torrential rain which caused a large amount of flood damage in certain areas of the city. Cars were stranded and buildings receiving flooring and furniture damage. City officials admit that Edmond needs to improve its stormwater …
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Cincinnati’s Aging Water Mains – How Infrastructure Management Planning Could Help
The Greater Cincinnati Water Works has a growing concern for aging water infrastructure in their large system which stretches from Northern Kentucky to Mason. In some of the latest water main breaks, wooden pipes dating to the 1800s have been dug up, causing a renewed sense of urgency to replace …
Carlsbad Wants to Prove Desalination is Worthwhile in California
The largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere is under construction in Carlsbad, California. Not everybody is happy about it, but Poseidon Water, the company building the plant and for desalination across the globe, the opening of the plant later this year is an opportunity to try and …
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Chicago is Taking the Waste out of Wastewater for Eco-friendly Use
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago built the largest phosphorus recovery facility in the world at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, which opened in 2016. Phosphorus and other nutrients are usually lost during wastewater treatment, but executive director David St. …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – Detroit’s ‘Blue Infrastructure’ Project
Detroit, Michigan is soon to discover whether an innovative landscape concept is known as "blue infrastructure" will work to save taxpayers money. Blue infrastructure is the practice of using ponds, fields, and other more natural settings as the depository of rainwater and snowmelt from sewers …
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Disaster Preparedness – How Infrastructure Asset Management Planning Helps
On 25 May 2015, for several days, Texas was hit hard by severe storms, flooding, and tornado warnings. Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in 24 counties in addition to 13 counties that were mobilized earlier. Based on forecasts, the weather was only expected to worsen throughout …
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