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The cost of shoring up old assets is just one of many challenges that have converged to create a perfect storm of financial stress for the public sector.
A town transforms school buses into mobile first-responder units.
A veteran of both gravity and vacuum sewer systems crunches the numbers.
Five ways to promote a rate increase (hint: think of yourself as a campaign-finance manager).
It's a hard lesson learned from an era of unprecedented growth in the housing market, when subdivisions were built faster than the infrastructure necessary to serve them. With traditional wastewater treatment plants facing restrictions on their total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), decentralized...
Two decades of experience allow a waste-to-energy facility to chart its own course on its expansion project.
A community pool complex uses variable-frequency drives to save thousands in annual energy costs.
Three years on, New Orleans still makes headlines for the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which caused about $400 million in infrastructure damage. Yet 1,000 miles north, on the usually quiet banks of the Cedar River in the usually quiet city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, summer floods are racking up...
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I don't think I've laughed as hard as I did over the responses to the last edition of this newsletter, which asked "Would you hurt Bambi?"