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Ross talks about infrastructure waves in his previous post, "Studying Infrastructure Waves through Case Histories." Here, Ross provides a detailed explanation illustrating New Zealand's infrastructure construction waves. If we look at this New Zealand case study, so here’s 1965, we got this …
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This is one is from that same report. The blue line is transportation expenditure in New Zealand, you can see from 1965 and this 1987 recession, it was a little bit of a downward decline coming out of that. There was a dip there but it’s come up but that line across is being pretty steady, …
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Cape Town, South Africa is facing a very dire situation due to a three-year-long mega-drought. By May, the city was expecting to have to turn off its water supply and hand out a meager 25 liters per day to its citizens, who will have to make their way through long and potentially dangerous crowds …
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The APWA Public Works Expo (PWX) will be held in Kansas City, Missouri on 26th-29th August 2018 in conjunction with the International Federation of Municipal Engineers (IFME) World Congress In New Zealand, IPWEA NZ is a member of IFME and a sister organization of APWA. Ross has …
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In the USA, many water infrastructure upgrades are going to be needed in the next couple of decades. There is a growing concern, however, that with many laborers in this field set to retire soon, there may not be enough people to do the jobs. Brookings Metropolitan Policy Programme, based in …
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The US Department of Agriculture has recognized several pressing needs in rural US communities and has plans to invest $267 million to improve water and wastewater systems in 103 projects. Many of these communities have very limited water infrastructure and the risk of contamination. Water …
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The 11th Pacific Water and Wastewater Conference will be held in Noumea, New Caledonia from 6th-10th August 2018. Members of our team will be attending this Conference, which is a vital forum for the discussion of water and wastewater issues across Pacific Island countries. This …
Those of you who have been regular visitors to the Inframanage Blog will have noted that it has been a long time since the last blog post - back in late 2017. A combination of high consulting workload, study, and family responsibilities has created this gap, and in effect created a lack of …
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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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So, this is where you guys start to have to do some work and a bit of response back, we have at about a quarter of an hour, haven't we Theuns. So, this graph here is a graph for New Zealand that was produced by the office of the auditor general by NZIER. And so, the blue line was capital …
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So in terms of New Zealand and local government, I do a lot of work in the local government sector, we have a thing we called the Local Government Act. One of the questions Theuns put to me. He said, we have some amendments coming up, what do they mean? And I’ve taken the liberty to reinterpret …
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Harvey and Irma were the two tropical cyclones that battered the US coasts in late August 2017. Both storm systems were classified as major hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey with its 130 mph wind was classified as Category 4, while Hurricane Irma was Category 5 with her winds reaching 185 mph. As …
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