Installing a new headworks at an existing wastewater treatment plant is much like trying to perform a head transplant while keeping the patient alive, says Jignesh Desai, senior project manager of the project management bureau at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC).
The Musaimeer pump station and outfall is a vital infrastructure addition in Qatar to meet demands of its increasing population and to deal with growing problems of rising brackish groundwater as well as flash flooding.
Officials take latest step against Veolia North America and International Boundary and Water Commission in ongoing dispute over county pollution impacts from untreated Mexico flows, but firm denies responsibility.
International Boundary and Water Commission awards the EGC-AGEISS joint venture a $1.9-million contract to collect water samples from the Tijuana River Valley
Imperial Beach, Calif., residents claim the second class action against the federal agency-contracted wastewater plant consultant stems from more than a decade of sewage flows from Tijuana, Mexico, but firm says the suit is "meritless."
Class action lawsuit by is also set to add the International Boundary and Water Commission, owner of the South Bay wastewater treatment plant, as a defendant.
Officials from the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission
are urging the Mexican members of the commission and other local officials to finish projects that are keeping untreated wastewater flowing into the Tijuana River.
Among the biggest challenges Hassan Allam Construction faced building the seawater desalination plant for the greenfield city, New Mansoura, was groundwater control.
While improvements to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Diego
have begun, local officials stress more money will be needed to stop the raw sewage overflow problem in the cross-border area.