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Last year, New York City brought a long-overdue water project to completion by the activation of a new drinking water tunnel from Brooklyn to Staten Island. The $250 million-tunnel was delayed when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. Ironically, disasters such as Sandy are the very reason that this …
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Watch this recording and presentation slides of the Ask-the-Experts October 2017 webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held. Ross and Heather had been conducting the Ask-the-Experts webinars since 2014. The webinar on 11 October 2017 is the 6th in the series. In this webinar, Ross …
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News21’s investigative report that around 63 million Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water is making headlines in the USA’s major online news agencies. The report examined the Environmental Protection Agency violations on water quality and monitoring affecting places from California to …
A new scientific society, the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, is arguing that water managers need to use a different system of analysis for planning ahead. The Society thinks that uncertainty in this time of rapid environmental and social change implies that managers need to …
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Recently the Sustainable Prosperity, an environmental think tank based at the University of Ottowa, conducted a study, aptly labeled "New Solutions for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Canada." The study reviews the current state of stormwater management in Canada and the two most regularly …
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The technical report "Integrating Climate Change into Road Asset Management" is a climate adaptation resource that we recommend your reading. Prepared by Theuns Henning, Susan Tighe, and Ian Greenwood, with the overall direction of Christopher R. Bennet, this technical report provides …
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The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure recently awarded Kansas City Water's Middle Blue River Green Infrastructure projects its Envision Platinum award. These projects were specifically engineered to cut combined sewer overflows and improve water quality in the project region - which …
Wastewater and Stormwater infrastructure in the 2017 ASCE report Card received a D+. This is up from the 2013 report card grade of D. This is in part due to the fact there has been some innovation with the treatment plants to ensure protection against flooding and cross-contamination and new more …
Tony Seba has published an updated lecture: The Electric Vehicle Disruption - End of Oil 2030 Having attended a lecture by Tony Seba two years ago, I have found his analysis coherent, well-researched, and well worth taking note of. If you are involved in transportation infrastructure …
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Engineers in the tiny island nation of Singapore have been constructing a state of the art new sewer system, know as the DTSS (Deep Tunnel Sewer System). Phase one of the project was completed in 2008 and phase two began in 2013. It is a cost-effective and sustainable solution, offered by the …
Watch and listen to this lecture video on Strategic Asset Management that Ross Waugh delivered at the University of Auckland. In this video, Ross talks about the following: World Infrastructure NeedsWhat is Strategic Asset Management PlanningWhere does Strategic Asset Management fit in the ISO …
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