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The Promise of Innovative Water-Saving Technologies
Water technology companies, spurred by the growing demand for water in California and other drought-afflicted states, are developing innovative tools for conserving and purifying water. CNN recently featured the following three water technology startups, all in Minnesota, developing such new … Continue reading
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Tagged clean water, drinking water, infrastructure investment, infrastructure needs
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House and Senate Appropriations Committees Pass Job Killing Cuts to SRF
Last week, June 16th and 18th respectively, House and Senate appropriators passed legislation out of the Appropriations Committees that drastically cut the infrastructure construction financing through the EPA’s State Revolving Funds. These job killing and infrastructure damaging cuts seriously jeopardize … Continue reading
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Tagged aging infrastructure, clean water, create jobs, drinking water, epa, EPA Grants, infrastructure funding, infrastructure investment, infrastructure needs, obama infrastructure spending, upgrade infrastructure, water infrastructure, water infrastructure funding
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Water Resources Reform and Development Act Turns One
Last week the House Transportation Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee held a hearing to explore the progress made under the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (WRRDA), enacted a year ago. WRRDA authorized $12.3 billion to finance water … Continue reading
Congressional Budget Office Issues Report on Public Infrastructure Spending
In early March, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report detailing public spending (spending by federal, state, and local governments) on six types of infrastructure Continue reading
Water News as of September 19
Top Stories DC: The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to clarify Clean Water Act protections for small streams and wetlands that had been thrown into question by Supreme Court decisions over the past decade. The agency and the Army Corps of … Continue reading
Water News as of September 13
Top Stories Maryland: All of the ports on the East Coast “have to get in the game,” Vice President Joe Biden said Monday, and get ready to accept larger cargo ships that will come through an expanded Panama Canal by 2015. … Continue reading
Water News as of August 9
Top Stories Wisconsin: A bipartisan group of governors vented Saturday about the challenges of rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure in a time of tight budgets and partisan paralysis in Congress. In Congress this week, a bipartisan federal bill dealing in … Continue reading
Water News as of August 2
Top Stories National: Today, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) announced plans for the Committee to consider the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) of 2013 … Continue reading
Water News as of July 3, 2013
Top Stories California: Raw sewage backed up into both clubhouse shower areas, the umpires’ room and all bathrooms on the clubhouse level, as well as both managers’ offices and the Mariners’ training room. The Angels filed a complaint about unsanitary … Continue reading
Posted in California, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
Tagged aging infrastructure, business closures, clean water, epa, flooding, infrastructure needs, leaking infrastructure, obama infrastructure spending, raw sewage, service disruption, water main break, water pipeline
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Water News as of June 21, 2013
Top Stories EPA’s Fifth Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, released June 4, reports that $384 billion in improvements are needed for the nation’s drinking water infrastructure through 2030 for systems to continue providing safe drinking water to 297 … Continue reading
Posted in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, National, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Virginia, Washington
Tagged aging infrastructure, clean water, epa, flooding, leaking infrastructure, raw sewage, road closures, sewage spill, sink holes, water main breaks
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