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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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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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Ross: And I think too Heather, just clicked back to that slide from Toledo, Ohio because they've had the "Do not drink (notice)" for the entire population due to that. They’re getting through the treatment plant. And yes that’s a different cause of the problem from a break or the Boston one …
Heather: And the other thing to think about is, different breaks have different criticality to a water utility. So a small break on a side street that it’s just tricking down the road, impacting a couple of customers is not the same as a major water main break that impacts the whole town …
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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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How well do we really know what message connects with the general public? We often talk about the need to “educate” the public about the “value of water” or “the complexity of what we do,” but what does this really mean? Does the public want, or more importantly, need to be …
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At the recent Pacific Water Conference (Sept. 2014) in American Samoa, my colleague Richard Taylor from Thomas Civil and Environmental Consultants delivered a paper 'Intermittent Water Supplies - an International Update'. This paper drew on work from the IWA pre-conference workshop on …
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This conference has transpired. Please browse related articles on the website. Thank you! On 9-11 September, Grant Holland and I attended the Pacific Water Conference in American Samoa. In our infrastructure management consulting work we have been undertaking projects in the Pacific …
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In my previous post "Detroit, Michigan Water Shut Offs – a Right, a Privilege or an Infrastructure Asset Management Problem?", I have pointed out the infrastructure management issues arising from the Detroit water shutoffs. In the later part, I have expounded on the issue "So Who Pays?". …
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In this post, I discussed when Detroit, Michigan is in the news again, this time with sound and fury around planned water shutoffs. As of writing this post, a simple google search on the topic returns over 400,000 pages The issues facing the city of Detroit have been featured on this …
In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. In the previous blog post entitled “3 …
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