Water Well Trust Receives $1 Million USDA Grant for National Water Well Projects
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2020 - The Water Well Trust, a national nonprofit helping rural Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Household Water Well Systems (HWWS) program for projects to increase potable water availability to rural households throughout the U.S. The USDA grant and matching funds from the Water Systems Council will be used to fund more than 80 Water Well Trust projects throughout the U.S. Fo...
Stantec completes design of Kenya’s first city-wide sustainable sanitation facility
Washington, DC - NYSE, TSX: STN: Stantec, a leading global design and engineering firm, has completed designs for the Naivasha Treatment Plant (NTPx), an innovative fecal sludge treatment facility in Naivasha, Kenya that will generate sustainable biomass fuel. Once complete, the 145,000 sq. ft. facility will convert over 7,000 cubic feet of septage daily into Grade A biosolids. The resulting biosolids will be used to produce 1,200 tons of biomass briquettes per month. “There is great potentia...
AquaBlok Releases Guidance Specification for Composite Bentonite Aggregate in Below Ground Pipe and Infrastructure Construction or Repair Applications
AquaBlok, Ltd. has recently released a guidance specification for the use of Composite Bentonite Aggregate (CBA) in the construction of trench dams (anti-seep collars) to prevent seepage and erosion that can cause damage to critical infrastructure. Trench dams or anti-seep collars are an important measure in the construction of underground utility piping, storm drainage, water control structures and dams and levees to block underground flow of water through voids and poorly compacted soil. Witho...
University partners with cities to study COVID-19 virus prevalence in wastewater
The Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility serves the majority of the population in the region, making it an ideal location to conduct the environmental surveillance of wastewater. College of Engineering leads wastewater environmental surveillance in the Truckee Meadows RENO/SPARKS, Nev. – The Nevada Water Innovation Institute based at the University of Nevada, Reno, along with regional agency partners, is monitoring Truckee Meadows wastewater to determine the level of COVID-19 in...
Nestlé Waters Becomes First Food and Beverage Company in the World to Earn Platinum Rating under the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
The Ontario, California Factory received AWS’ highest attainable certification, recognition of the site’s elite performance in water stewardship and community engagement All five California Nestlé Waters factories and all seven Arrowhead® Brand 100% Natural Mountain Spring Water factories are certified under the rigorous water standard ONTARIO, Calif. – Nestlé Waters North America today announced that its Ontario, California water bottling site is the first food and beverage factory in th...
US Army Corps of Engineers Awards Stantec with National Dam and Levee Safety Contract
Stantec will provide geotechnical services for flood damage reduction projects EDMONTON, AB; NEW YORK, NY TSX, NYSE:STN: The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District, has awarded global design firm Stantec with a five-year, $45 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. Under this geotechnical services contract, the firm will be tasked to support the USACE mission to plan, design, evaluate, construct, operate, and control flood damage reduction proje...
New York State Partners with Arcadis to Pilot Early Detection of COVID-19 in Wastewater
Game-changing approach will help inform decision-making, protect public health in upstate communities Highlands Ranch, Colo. — The New York State Department of Health and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have partnered with Arcadis for a pilot project to identify and track SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in municipal wastewater collection systems in Onondaga County, Albany, Newburgh and Buffalo. Arcadis will identify and monitor the presence of SARS-C...
Skanska builds new water supply system in Oslo, Norway, for NOK 2.88 billion, about SEK 2.8 billion
Skanska has signed a contract with The Agency for Water and Wastewater Services in Oslo Municipality, Norway, for preparatory work in the project New Water Supply Oslo. The contract is worth about NOK 2.88 billion, about SEK 2.8 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings the third quarter 2020. The project consists primarily blasting of rock chambers and three large tunnels with a total length of five kilometres. A total of 1.2 million cubic meters of solid rock masses will...
Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) North America Announces Google Achieves AWS Certification
Earning AWS certification for its Mountain View, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., and Dublin, Ireland campuses demonstrates Google’s commitment to understanding and addressing water stewardship challenges and opportunities in its business operations. Milwaukee, Wis., August 12, 2020: The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) North America today announced Google achieved AWS certification at its Mountain View, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., and Dublin, Ireland campuses under the AWS Standard. Earni...
City of Tucson Water Department Selects VODA.ai's Machine Learning to Support Decision-Making
BOSTON - The City of Tucson Water Department has selected VODA.ai as their exclusive provider of artificial intelligence software service for pipe prioritization. VODA.ai is excited to expand the partnership with the City of Tucson and provide continuous virtual condition assessment for the entire water system of over 4,600 miles of distribution water main pipes. The service includes forward-looking predictions, which are updated quarterly. "The City of Tucson is working toward greater proact...
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