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Biden administration agreements with state water agencies are intended to conserve up to 643,000 acre-ft of water in Lake Mead through 2025. 

Congress clears legislation that includes many initiatives that construction and engineering groups support. 

State water agency's final environmental impact report on the proposed Delta Conveyance Project now is reduced in scope compared to other considered options after feedback.

Federal lawsuit filed in Louisiana argues that agency water certification rule that restores state authority to determine project water effects is too broad. 

The addition of anaerobic digester units at the East Alexandria Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Egyptian city’s largest wastewater treatment facility, is reducing the amount of sludge that needs to be trucked off site and using methane captured inside airtight digesters to help power the plant.

This $522-million water treatment facility will clean 7.5 million cu m of water per day to expand farming land and combat water scarcity in northwestern Egypt.

Among the biggest challenges Hassan Allam Construction faced building the seawater desalination plant for the greenfield city, New Mansoura, was groundwater control.

The increase of the Nassau Cruise Port’s capacity to 30,000 passengers per day from 20,000 was accomplished without compromising the integrity of the region’s delicate ecology.

Broadened regional equity and sustainability measures now are key in executing billions in work ahead, officials tell recent ENR infrastructure forum. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal that would require replacement, in 10 years, of the remaining nine million lead pipes.