Decentralized Waste and Wastewater Technologies Provide Sustainable, Cost-Effective and Low-Maintenance Solutions

London – Stringent government standards for effluent, a population boom, growing industrialization in isolated locations, and excessive volumes of waste and wastewater generation have highlighted the need for sustainable, reliable, and cost-effective wastewater and solid waste treatment technologies. Decentralized waste and wastewater treatment technologies are being considered because of their low maintenance, economic and environmental advantages, as well as ability to enable the reduction of...

New WRI Analysis Reveals Asia’s Poorest People Don’t Know if Their Water is Safe

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN —Industrial facilities release upwards of 400 million tons of toxic pollutants into the world’s waters each year. For many of Asia’s poorest communities who depend on local waterways for drinking, bathing, farming and fishing, they need to know whether their water is polluted or dangerously toxic. At a World Water Week Showcase event on August 30, WRI will release Thirsting for Justice: Transparency and Poor People’s Struggle for Clean Water in Indonesia, Mongolia and Thaila...

Houston Flooding Affected by Infrastructure

GWI’s New Market Intelligence Tool WaterData Enhances Water Sector Strategy and Planning

Global Water Intelligence (GWI) has announced the launch of a new platform designed to empower water businesses in strategy building, market assessment and competitor analysis processes. WaterData provides a comprehensive map of the municipal and industrial water and wastewater markets, both providing a top-level view of market trends and slicing the sector by region, technology domain, digital solutions and the industrial sectors. Supported by granular market size data, forecasts, databases and...

Gannett Fleming Wins Grand Award from Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers

Gannett Fleming received the Grand Award in the water resources category for its work on the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir at the Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers’ (FICE) Engineering Excellence Awards ceremony on August 4. “Our team designed a solution that requires minimal maintenance and low long-term repair or replacement costs, a benefit that will help ensure optimal performance for the more than 2.4 million customers that it serves,” said Daniel Stare, PE, geotechnical engi...

Precast Concrete Drainage Components Used for Phoenixville’s New School Stormwater Management System

MID-ATLANTIC REGION (AUGUST 2017) – Oldcastle Precast recently supplied over 11,000-feet Class III reinforced concrete pipe, along with multiple precast concrete stormwater drainage and sanitary structures for Phoenixville Area School District’s new 152,000-square-foot school and early learning center’s stormwater management system in Phoenixville, Pa. Ensuring conformance with desired guidelines and practices due to the sensitive nature of the work in this high-quality watershed and the...

Application Deadline Approaches for Water Well Projects in 15 Georgia Counties; Water Well Trust Seeks Low Income Households to Qualify for Remaining Grant Monies

WASHINGTON - The Water Well Trust, the only national nonprofit helping low income Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply, announced that it is still seeking eligible households from 15 counties in Georgia to receive new water wells or rehabilitate existing wells before available funding expires on September 30, 2017. The Water Well Trust (WWT) received a matching grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a project to increase potable water availability to households...

Natural Treatment Systems – Ecotechnology Solutions

Natural treatment systems (NTS) are ecotechnologies designed to treat water or reclaim degraded sites. Treatment wetlands are a core ecotechnology that have entered the mainstream of large municipal projects for tertiary wastewater treatment, water reclamation, water supply pretreatment and stormwater management. The award-winning 4G Ranch Wetlands is a public-private collaborative effort between Pasco County, Southwest Florida Water Management District and the Phillips Family who owns the l...

CH2M-Developed Integrated Water Management Plan Promotes Sustainable Water Solutions in Metropolitan Atlanta

ATLANTA - Developing an inclusive vision to meet future water demands, CH2M recently completed an integrated water resource management plan highlighting inter-connections between water supply and conservation, wastewater management and stormwater and watershed management across 15 counties and 95 cities in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The final integrated water resource management plan received unanimous approval by the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District Board in June and re...

Where’s Kit? – Yangon, Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar –  We are driving up to a destroyed water pipeline on a bumpy, 200-year-old, British-made highway. I am in the middle of the Myanmar jungle. It is about 40°C (104°F) and dusty and hot. It is still the dry season here. Both sides of the highway have low-lying bushes, palm trees and occasional villages with a golden pagoda. People are friendly with quick smiles. Our team part of a government mission to investigate an earthquake-damaged water supply chain. A municipal engineer in...