The flood-swollen Mississippi River began moving through part of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, north of New Orleans, on Jan. 10 as part of a strategy to “make room for the river” and avoid more flooding, which had damaged parts of Missouri earlier.
San Diego County water chief Bob Yamada points to Peter MacLaggan as a true visionary and persistent leader in moving to completion the nation’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant, in Carlsbad, Calif., and offering a template for other water-strapped municipalities in North America.
French engineering, design and project management firm Artelia has been picked to replace Deltares—an independent Dutch institute for applied research in water and subsurface—in a contract to study the impact of the $4 billion Great Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the flow of the Nile River.
Jordan and Israel are moving forward with the first phase of their ambitious Red-to-Dead Sea project to build jointly new pilot-scale facilities to boost the water supply to both countries and replenish the severely depleted Dead Sea, which borders both nations
Officials from various water-related entities highlighted some of the problems associated with the historic drought that is plaguing much of the western U.S.—as well as some solutions to address it—at Engineering News-Record’s second annual Western Water Conference.
Environmentalists panned Montreal’s controversial decision to divert, for a week earlier this month, raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River to repair a key wastewater tunnel.
South Carolina is taking steps to improve the safety of its regulated dams following the failure of more than 30 structures during October’s massive floods.
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) is undertaking a six-project, $892-million program aimed at addressing congestion and access issues across metropolitan Tulsa and Oklahoma City.