We’ve just witnessed a massive public health disaster in which the residents of Flint, Mich., including every one of 8,000 children, have been exposed to lead in the city’s drinking water.
With the successful completion of the $1-billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., the project’s developer is moving forward with plans to build a second plant at Huntington Beach.
The city of Flint and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) are scrambling to address a drinking-water-supply crisis that went on for months before local officials admitted lead levels in the water were dangerously high.
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.
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