Toronto council voted decisively to open up its material specifications to include alternative materials like PVC pipe for large diameter transmission water mains.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) have recently worked together to develop the WATERiD project (WATER Infrastructure Database), an online record of information to help bring attention to failing water infrastructures and aid planning and funding.

High-quality drinking water and wastewater systems are essential to public health, business and quality of life in the United States.

Effective wastewater treatment is increasingly becoming the focus of municipalities looking to save money across the United States.

Sometimes you need more than one product to get the job done. The Department of Water for the city of Dayton, Ohio, recently used two complementary technologies from Insituform Technologies LLC and Corrpro Companies to tackle a variety of pipe problems on a 10-in water line running along Guthrie Road on the outskirts of the city.

Water and wastewater utilities are faced with an increasing problem associated with ensuring reliability of their large diameter pipelines, many of which exceed 100 years of service life.

In the face of revenue pressures, increasing operational costs and manpower shortages, utilities can?t afford to ignore water loss. Nor can they afford to literally underestimate the problem. As utilities review better methods to conserve water and control costs, leak detection has become a critical component of any modern utility management system.

Like many utilities, UWNJ was concerned about being able to identify transmission and distribution of water main leaks.

Water utility executives are at the front line of a dramatic shift in water management as a global water shortage forces the industry to reevaluate water conservation strategies.

Up until nearly 20 years ago, project delivery methods in construction, such as design-bid-build and construction management were among the most used. Under these methods, design and construction aspects were each separate entities, separate contracts and separate work.