Terry Trapp is an entrepreneur based in Sitka, Alaska. He is the chief executive of Alaska Bulk Water inc. and intends to ship around 10 million gallons of water per month by tanker or barge from Alaska to California by July. Ambitious to say the least. The cost has always been a major obstacle …
Price of Water USA and Infrastructure Asset Management Planning
The price of water in the USA has risen by 41% since 2010. The economics of water - particularly the cost of treatment, pumping, new infrastructure, as well as the retail price for consumers - has gained renewed prominence as states face historic drought and water managers seek to rein in water …
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Toronto Looks to Boston’s Wastewater Treatment Plant for Climate Change Resiliency
Toronto is a Canadian city looking to the future, a future that includes climate change. There have been reports and conversations over the last few years discussing whether or not Toronto's wastewater treatment plant can handle sewage during extreme weather. During the summer storm of 2013, …
Singapore’s Innovative Water System – Good Utilities Infrastructure Management
This year the words 'California' and 'drought' have become synonymous in media throughout the world, but it is interesting to note that California is not the only place to struggle with very limited water resources. Singapore has had a permanent water crisis ever since the island city-state was …
Infrastructure Management Planning – Solution for Water-less CA Town
East Porterville is a rural city with a population of 6,700 - mostly poor Latino farmworkers; and this city has a big problem - there is no more water. Nearly 1000 private wells that once delivered water to homes and small businesses have dried up, leaving residents with very limited options and …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – Wichita Falls TX Beats the Drought
Although the drought lingers in Texas and other Western states, Wichita Falls has taken a very proactive approach. They are currently the only U.S. city to serve recycled wastewater to homes. Wichita Falls relies on reservoirs and continues to be under a Stage 5 drought emergency. Last year …
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Avoiding Water Politics in the American West through Infrastructure Management Tools
In the American West, nothing sets politics aflame as quickly as water. In early April, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) issued mandatory restrictions on water use. This has never before happened in California and is just another step on the path to combating the now 4-year drought. 60% of the …
Asset Management Planning and CA Water Agencies and Native Tribes Water Disputes
The two largest water agencies in California's Coachella Valley are seeking to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has a "reserved right" to groundwater. Desert Water Agency maintains that everyone, including the tribe, should have equal access to …
Flint, Michigan Water Crisis – Update and Further Developments
Several weeks ago Inframanage.com blogged on the water contamination situation in Flint, Michigan. News headlining in the following week suggests that conditions in the city have not improved, but worsened, to the point that seven members of the Flint City Council have voted to "do all things …
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Arizona Strengthens Groundwater Supply Resilience thru Innovative Partnership
In order to combat drought in Arizona, a partnership between the state's publicly owned supplier of Colorado River water and private water company Liberty Utilities has been utilized to replenish Groundwater. With financial aid from the Central Arizona Project, Liberty Utilities will construct an …
California Has One Year of Water Reserves Left – What Are the Possible Solutions?
California has been facing drought problems for a while now and has been trying to come up with a contingency plan. However, Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, has noticed a far more immediate problem - the state has only one year of water supply …
Pittsburgh, PA Hurdles Bumps to Water Demand Management
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is gearing up for its 5th Annual Marcellus & Utica Shale (Natural Gas and Oil production) Water Management Initiative on March 23-25. In preparation for the conference, industry professionals were given a survey to evaluate what the industry really believes about …
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