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Watch Ross present an overview of the topic "Asset Management Information Systems," which is the section of the IIMM 2011 edition he authored. He's in the process of updating the said section. Know why Ross is saying in this summary series "There is no silver bullet in infrastructure asset …
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The Value of Water Coalition is made up of local and national leaders who have come together at a time when America's water infrastructure is at risk. They aim to educate Americans about the true value of water and were founded by well-known water authorities such as the AWWA and others. This …
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What is more inspiring than reading a story of resilience in the civil engineering profession in the U.S. and knowing she's the project manager of the San Francisco Bay Tunnel Project. Yesterday, a colleague shared the link to the article on Inquirer.net about San Francisco Bay Tunnel Project …
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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) have introduced a bill, S. 741, The Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act. The bill hopes to help local communities meet the challenges of upgrading water infrastructure systems to …
An asset system may gather data that needs to be sorted and presented to end-users. Heather and Ross provided some ideas. Heather said that one has to think about what is it you want to make decisions about. This will help set your outputs for your process, she said. It should answer the …
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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 …
State officials have ordered several North Jersey towns and sewer authorities to begin developing ways to cut down on the copious amounts of human waste that goes into the Hackensack, Passaic, and Hudson rivers annually. Many of these small towns are years away from constructing new …
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The Economist Magazine has just published a very interesting and informative article on US population and demography changes and the long-term national advantages that Hispanic immigration is giving the United States. The article provides a very good overview of US demographics and is well worth …
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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Drought across the Midwest is continuing to raise concerns over water scarcity and having the supply to meet future demand. In spite of this, some groups believe that finding the right price point for water customers will be the key. At a conference for water utility finance managers held …
Sacramento, California has made some tough decisions recently about which areas of its water infrastructure it will upgrade first. The areas in question are the water meters of the entire city or the water mains and other projects. The City Council has allowed Sacramento to draw from funds …
I am sure many of the readers of this site will be following the unfolding story of the damage from Cyclone Pam in the small Pacific nation of Vanuatu. This has been a very large cyclone (typhoon) and has caused widespread damage. Yesterday, immediately after the cyclone communications and …
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