California’s $1.5-billion E&CSP—which took more than 15 years to complete— adds 196,000 acre-ft of water storage for San Diego and helps to prevent damage during seismic events.
As Congress hurries to its preelection recess, the list of major bills the House and Senate must pass before leaving may only include one item: legislation to keep federal agencies operating past September.
One afternoon this May, a group of journalists and market analysts convened in London at the Royal Society headquarters in Carleton House to hear the CEO of Salini Impregilo unveil the Italian engineering and construction conglomerate’s strategy for the next four years.
More than 100 ships have passed smoothly through the Panama Canal's new $5.4-billion third lane; more turbulent is the ongoing dispute over nearly $3.5 billion in contractor claims.
A three-judge panel from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a bid by several states, led by Georgia, to have their challenge to the Obama administration’s June 2015 Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule heard by the court.
On Aug. 9, Sen. Joe Negron (R), president-designate of Florida’s state senate, unveiled a plan to purchase land south of Lake Okeechobee for a 60,000-acre reservoir to store 120 billion gallons of polluted lake water, which currently is discharged to tide when the lake rises to a level that threatens the dike that encloses it.
The 2016 Summer Olympics boating and swimming events have put an international spotlight on a long-running problem in Rio de Janeiro—untreated sewage and trash are clogging up bays and waterways.
In a mostly conciliatory address in which she repeatedly thanked those who have reached out to her beleaguered city during the “shocking and unprecedented” water crisis, the mayor of Flint, Mich., did take aim at Washington in her first State of the City speech.
An approximately four-mile-long, 18-ft-diameter and 200-ft-deep
tunnel to mitigate storm water and combined sewer overflow into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound is slated to begin construction this month.