Tag: Drinking Water

Houston Public Works and several local partners have begun design work on a $120 million drinking water pipeline project that will serve a fast-growing region of the Houston metropolitan area.

Steam engines and wooden pipes helped Philadelphia pioneer large-scale municipal water delivery.

A response team led an investigation into the damage sustained to Paradise, California's, buried drinking water infrastructure caused by the November 2018 Camp Fire.

An international architecture firm has released the design of a health spa in eastern Nepal that will capture moisture from fog and convert it into water.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $891 million in loans and grants for rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects in 43 states.

Microplastics are a potentially dangerous emerging pollutant in water supplies. A team of Georgia Tech students may have just solved the problem.

The Louisville Water Company achieved a notable goal in March 2020: removing its last known public lead service lines, a milestone reached by only a few other U.S. utilities.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation warns that 40 million people may face water shortages from chronic drought in the West.

Some critical civil engineering projects have been completed faster than expected during the pandemic. The culprit? Fewer people on the roads.