The City of Cincinnati and Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) recently began operations of a $30 million state-of-the-art Ultraviolet (UV) Disinfection Treatment Facility.

Last week, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., signed a package of bills to help expand access to clean drinking water in California.

Last week, New York City Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland announced the completion of the world?s largest ultraviolet (UV) treatment facility.

The International Private Water Association (IPWA) will hold a Financial Tools Taskforce meeting via conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. (EST).

With the House, Senate and President agreeing to budget/debt ceiling legislation Wednesday night, furloughed employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are heading back to work.

Water utilities across the United States face a major funding gap related to buried pipeline infrastructure. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the difference between what is needed for infrastructure renewal and what utilities can afford to spend is between $200 billion and $1 trillion over the next 25 years.

Potentially recoverable real losses in water systems cost real money. As a water community, we have adopted some general practices for estimating that cost and calculating the approximate economic level of real losses. The focus, however, has been on the production cost of water…

The City of Asheville, N.C., covers a total area of more than 41 square miles and is home to more than 83,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Its water resources department works non-stop, providing the city?s residents with clean drinking water through approximately 56,000 service connections.

Pipes that burst as a result of transients and surges within a piping network are very common problems throughout the world. Not only are the maintenance costs of these repairs extremely expensive, but when you add in possible litigation for third party damages, combined with the potentially significant value (cost) of the lost water, you can quickly realize the significance of what may appear simply as ?another pipe burst.?