Articles Tagged with ''water/environment''

The first $900-million phase of a mammoth project to pump water from the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea on the Israel-Jordan border—along with boosted water and power supply facilities for the region—has attracted design-construction proposals from teams that include 17 global firms.

But controversial policy riders, including language blocking "waters of the U.S." rule, may sink the measures.

AMEC Foster Wheeler Environmental & Infrastructure Inc. was awarded a design-build contract that will upgrade and expand the currently operating Central Treatment Plant and its support facilities.

House proposal is narrower than Senate committee's version, which includes drinking-water and wastewater provisions.