A Florida water cooperative has voted to seek state funding for three projects, totaling nearly $620 million in estimated cost, to address water-supply needs beyond 2035.
While the saga of the tunnel-boring machine dubbed “Bertha” has dominated headlines, another controversial but crucial project is progressing right next to the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement work.
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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s drinking-water chief said the agency is preparing to issue a comprehensive action plan to address challenges to the nation’s drinking-water systems by the end of the year.
The contract involves the construction, with financing from Italy’s credit agency Servizi Assicuative de Commerce Estero, of the 2,200-MW Koysha Dam on the Omo River in the southern part of the country.
Panama’s 10-year, $5.4-billion effort to add a third set of locks culminated on June 9, as tugboats guided a 255-meter-long bulk carrier, named Baroque, into the first lock.