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A request for proposals for the plant, set to produce 30 million gallons of water per day, will be released July 8 to selected bidders.

The firm will provide program management services to King County, Wash., for capital improvements to the South Treatment Plant in Renton.

This 1940 cover photo shows a streamlined crane lowering the first rotor into position at the Hiwassee Dam in North Carolina.

The infrastructure would increase country's rainwater drainage capacity by 700% to 20 million cu m per day.

Measure authorizes 12 Army Corps of Engineers construction projects totaling roughly $4.8 billion.

The west abutment of a dam near Mankato, Minn., was washed away, as was a portion of a railroad bridge between Sioux City, Iowa, and North Sioux City, S.D. 

Dubai plant will be the second-largest in the world using seawater reverse osmosis and the largest powered by solar energy.

With nearly all seven states within the 250,000-sq-mile Colorado River basin scrambling to conserve their apportionments from the river system’s increasingly depleted resources, interest in securing alternative local drinking water supplies is soaring.

The mile-long tunnel could provide cruise ships with a safe route through a peninsula to avoid rough waters.

Justices will rule on arguments against EPA "generic" effluent discharge permitting, but declined to consider landowners' eminent domain challenge on the Mountain Valley gas pipeline.