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San Francisco — While Governor Brown plots to build massive twin tunnels to send the Sacramento River to corporate agribusiness and oil interests, a group of over 30 organizations from across the political spectrum have formed Californians for a Fair Water Policy, a statewide coalition working to defeat the tunnels project that will unfairly and unnecessarily burden California’s taxpayers, ratepayers, and the environment. "The tunnels would impose billions of dollars of tax and water rate increases on Ca...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
(Greenville, SC) June 06, 2013 – Utility Partners of America (UPA), which helps utilities install and upgrade water, gas and electric meters embedded with time and money-saving technology, has safely connected approximately 40,000 Albuquerque homes and businesses to a “smart” water management infrastructure on behalf of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. By completing the initial phases of installation five months ahead of schedule and improving customer service through the use of...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
WASHINGTON – May 29, 2013 – Reps. John Dingell (MI), Steve King (IA), Bennie Thompson (MS) and Rob Wittman (VA) have introduced a bill asking for the reauthorization and appropriation of the public-private partnerships funded by the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA). The bill is a straight reauthorization of NAWCA funding of $75 million through FY17. “Ducks Unlimited appreciates that these House champions recognize NAWCA is the ideal model for successful public-private partnerships because...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
Sacramento, CA - Restore the Delta today presented findings of three separate analyses of the costs, benefits and financial burdens of the proposed Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), and its Peripheral Tunnels. The Brown Administration has repeatedly refused to conduct a comprehensive benefits-cost analysis, ignoring the rules of the very agencies pushing the project. Instead, they have conducted partial and scattered reports that the public will not find useful in determining whether this largest-ever ...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
By Elizabeth Cutright It began this spring with the journalistic version of fisticuffs. Throwing down the gauntlet in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times , author William deBuys ( A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest ) called out the city of Phoenix for its dependence on “an improbable” infrastructure that sucks water from “the distant (and dwindling) Colorado River” (“ Phoenix’s Too Hot Future ” ). Two journalists from Phoenix returned volley, with Arizona Republic r...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Drought and shortages, Infrastructure, Research
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The U.S. Senate today passed legislation that would create a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority, a key development in addressing America’s trillion-dollar water infrastructure challenge. A WIFIA pilot program is included in the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (S. 601), which passed by a vote of 83-14. It now moves on to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration. The American Water Works Association, which developed the WIFIA concept, called WIFIA’...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal partners, announced that the Urban Waters Federal Partnership is adding 11 new locations. In addition, two more federal partner agencies will join the partnership in its collaborative efforts to restore waterways a...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
DENVER, CO (May 2, 2013) – Wildfires remain a real threat this coming summer with the western United States still in the grip of a damaging drought. The impact of those fires on water utilities and, most especially the source water upon which they depend, can have significant, long-term impacts. To help water utilities better understand, prepare for and recover from wildfires, the Water Research Foundation (WaterRF) recently conducted a Wildfire Readiness and Response Workshop on the issue. The workshop ...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Government Programs, Infrastructure
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Nearly 200 water utility leaders from across the United States ascended the steps of Capitol Hill today, urging their members of Congress to vote for legislation that addresses the nation’s water infrastructure challenge and confronts mounting affordability concerns. The water utility leaders -- in Washington, D.C. as part of the Water Matters! Fly In, sponsored by the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation -- asked members of Congress to support the Se...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) named its massive tunnel boring machine (TBM), christened it with DC tap water, and prepared to send it underground to tunnel more than four miles along the Potomac at a depth of approximately 100 feet. The machine is more than 400 feet long and weighs more than 1323 tons. It will dig the Blue Plains Tunnel, which is a portion of DC Water's Clean River Project to significantly reduce combined se...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure
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