Padre Dam Receives Conceptual Approvals and $116.2 Million for East County Advanced Water Purification Program
(Santee, CA – Padre Dam Municipal Water District received regulatory conceptual approvals for the East County Advanced Water Purification Program from the California State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water. Additionally, the State Water Resources Control Board awarded Padre Dam $116.2 million as part of the Proposition 1 (Prop 1) Water Recycling Funding Program. The conceptual approval will allow the program to use either Lake Jennings and/or and the Santee Groundw...
Water Supply Project Earns Global Desalination Plant Honor
Recognizing its size and technical complexity, the Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile was selected Industrial Desalination Plant of the Year at the 2017 Global Water Summit. The plant increases water supply by creating purified water from seawater and delivering it to the largest copper mine in the world. Black & Veatch served as engineer of record and led the engineering design, procurement, resident engineering, pre-commissioning and commissioning for the marine and desalination...
NRDC REPORT: Nearly One in Four Americans’ Drinking Water Comes from Untested or Contaminated System
WASHINGTON – Nearly 77 million people—roughly a quarter of the U.S. population—spread across all 50 states were served by water systems reporting violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015, according to a report issued today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The offenses ranged from arsenic to nitrate contamination, and included often-serious failures to test or report contamination levels. A new threat to the nation’s water supplies comes in the form of dramatic cuts to t...
Protect Plus Creates Municipal Water Division To Meet Lead Crisis Head On
HICKORY, N.C.- Protect Plus, a nationwide supplier of water and air filtration products, today announced the creation of a new Municipal Water Division to better service the needs of water municipalities facing the growing lead crisis. In the wake of the Flint, Michigan drinking water crisis, increased attention has focused on aging infrastructures in cities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates as many as 2,000 towns are facing similar problems. As a result, water...
Bluewater Appoints New Chief Financial Officer To Help Drive Water Purification Expansion Globally
Stockholm, Sweden – Bluewater, a global leader in innovative water purifying technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marcus Larsson as Chief Financial Officer, with immediate effect. Marcus brings wide experience of financial management in the private sector. He will be responsible for the overall management of finance, investments, procurement, business engagement, internal audit and corporate systems. Marcus joins Bluewater from Ernst & Young, where he worked for seven ye...
Flint’s Lead Pipes Will Be Replaced Under Settlement in Federal Safe Drinking Water Case
DETROIT – Residents of Flint, Michigan will finally get their lead pipes replaced as the result of a settlement agreement approved by a federal judge today. The settlement will require the State of Michigan and City of Flint to replace Flint’s lead pipes within three years, and will be enforceable by the court. The lawsuit was filed in response to the Flint water crisis, the result of failed government decisions that caused lead to leach out from aging pipes into thousands of homes in Flint....
Bluewater Showcases Water Purifier Innovations at WQA Orlando, Putting People in Control of Their Own Tap Water Quality
Orlando, March 29, 2017 – Bluewater today showcases a full range of hi-tech, contemporary water purifiers for homeowners and catering businesses at the Water Quality Association (WQA) annual convention and exposition in Orlando, Florida. The WQA gathering connects the drinking water treatment industry's technologies, know-how, education, training, networking and business opportunities with industry professionals. “Bluewater provides solutions that address America’s pressing tap water problems...
Qualcomm, AT&T and CH2M Collaborate to Improve Water Management in Georgia's Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources
SAN DIEGO - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Inc., AT&T, CH2M and Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources (Gwinnett County) in Georgia are collaborating to reduce the amount of drinking water lost on its way to customers. This will be one of the first projects using power-efficient modems from Qualcomm Technologies to monitor non-revenue water usage – or water that has been treated and "lost" through the conveyance s...
Atlas Copco Honors World Water Day
Stockholm, Sweden, March 22, 2017: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, today honors World Water Day and stresses the immense global need for clean drinking water. More than 660 million people live without safe water supply close to home, according to the United Nations. This has enormous health consequences and typically forces mainly women and children to spend much of their time queueing up for water or walking to distant sources. One of the UN’s Sustain...
March 22nd, World Water Day, 319 Million Sub-Saharan Africans, 554 Million Asians and 50 Million Latin Americans Do Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water
World Water Council, 20th of March, 2017 – Without water, there is no life, no food, no development. Without water, neither countries nor societies can develop economically, culturally, socially or politically. Access to water is key and has an impact on all of our lives -- not only in directly affected regions of Africa or Asia-Pacific and certain regions of Latin America, but also in developed countries in Europe and North America. Lack of access to clean water can contribute to famine, wars...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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