Global Water Center’s Carbon Credit Program team: Anne Lyngdoh, Eric Wei, and Chelsea Inglis (left to right) CHARLESTON, S.C. - Global Water Center started a Carbon Credit Program to make rural water systems financially sustainable. This innovative…
Geographic Information Systems Key to Efficient Water Management
The supply of drinking water is one of the greatest challenges currently facing a large part of the world's regions. According to the latest data published…
GLWA Increasing System Resiliency with Improvements to 14 Mile Transmission Main
Pipe renewal extends the pipe segment’s service life by as much as 50 years GLWA and its member partners collaborated on plan to ensure continued…
Burrowing Critters Increase Risk of Levee Failure
WASHINGTON—Researchers have developed a new method to estimate the risk of levee failure and flooding from burrowing animals like badgers and porcupines. Levees are human-made embankments usually made from dirt that alter river flow to provide protection…
Jacobs to Deliver Upgrades of Koramangala & Challaghatta Valley Water Treatment Plant for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected to provide project management consultancy to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to rehabilitate the Koramangala & Challaghatta (K&C) Valley Used Water Treatment Plant in Belur Nagasandra, India.…
Video: Dam Threatens Last Tribes of Ethiopia
Donate: http://www.miyamotorelief.org/cause/s... In Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, several indigenous tribes have lived for millenniums. For eons, the annual flooding of the Omo River has provided the water they need to survive the harsh climate. A new, $1.6 billion,…
Future Growth and Water Supply Management Sparks Arizona Town to Pursue a Water Allocation Policy
Recognizing a need to preserve Arizona’s most prized natural resource, while planning for future growth and development, the Town of Gilbert takes proactive steps to ensure residents have enough water now and in the future. Water is a precious resource,…
The International Code Council supports access to safe and abundant water on World Water Day
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2019 - The International Code Council joins organizations worldwide in recognizing World Water Day by promoting initiatives that improve access to clean and plentiful water for all. This year’s theme is “Leaving no one behind,”…
Gannett Fleming’s Innovative Water Solution Wins Outstanding Project Award for Maryland American Water’s Bel Air Impoundment
(Harrisburg, Pa.) The American Council of Engineering Companies Maryland presented Gannett Fleming with an Outstanding Project Award for Maryland American Water’s Bel Air Impoundment project during the 2019 Excellence in Engineering Awards on Feb. 21. The…
Video: Oroville Dam Spillway Repair
Aerial drone footage from the state Department of Water Resources reveals progress on the Oroville Dam. Shot July 11, the video shows concrete being pumped between the stay-in-place forms. It is part of a new foundation and drainage system for the Lake Oroville…
