While these new forces are diverse, they share an underlying need for modern, efficient, and reliable infrastructure. This statement alone could bring a page-worth of discussion, but instead of focusing on all infrastructure, I would like to highlight water infrastructure and its need for …
Infrastructure Investment in Washington D.C.
The effects of the White House's new infrastructure investment plans are already being seen in D.C. as Vice President Biden visited a river tunnel project on Friday the 16th. This project is worth 2.6 billion dollars and is expected to take two decades to complete - a 13-mile network of tunnels …
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EPA Launches Finance Center to Improve Community Water Infrastructure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched the Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center to help communities across the country improve their wastewater, drinking water and stormwater systems, particularly through innovative financing and by building resilience to climate …
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US Water Infrastructure Spending Push
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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Infrastructure Management Reflections on Water Crises as Top Global Risk
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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Important Water Infrastructure Conference in Houston, Texas
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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Infrastructure Management Planning and NJ Water Privatization Issues
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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Utility Infrastructure Management – Water Main Breaks in Washington DC
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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Asset Management is Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solution for Infrastructure Crises
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 …
Criticality and Overall Cost in Water Utilities Asset Management
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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Answers to Challenging Infrastructure Asset Management Questions
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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Paying for Water – My TED Talk Experience
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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