All communities need safe drinking water and properly treated wastewater. But with the inevitable effects of climate change plus the changing needs and demands of the citizenry today, water utilities infrastructure management must include water resiliency in the agenda in order to adapt to the impacts of these problems. What is water utility resiliency? According […]
WATER UTILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
Important Infrastructure Management Lessons from the Dakota Access Pipeline Issue
It was in May 2014 when the Dakota Access Pipeline project was first announced. Two years after, the multi-billion-dollar project by Energy Transfer Partners or ETP started the construction after getting 200 permits to build at various water crossings, which was granted by the Army Corps of Engineers. That was what the Standing Rock Sioux […]
West Virginia Needs Stormwater Infrastructure Funding Now
More than two months after a flash flood killed at least 24 people and devastated more or less 1,200 homes, West Virginia is now seeing the harrowing effects of cutting back budgets on infrastructure and the slow efforts on rehabilitation and replacement of decaying public utilities. Flooding has become common in the mountainous counties of […]