News Mexico to spend $6.1bn on water, sewage and flood defences Mexico will invest $6.1bn on 17 water projects in regions hit by drought and flooding over the next six years, news website Aquínoticias reports. The country is increasingly prone to…
News Three more workers die fixing sewer pipes Three workers in Japan died Friday after losing consciousness while repairing sewer pipes down a manhole in the city of Oga, Akita Prefecture. The incident happened around 9:30am. First, one…
News Queens, New York gets six miles of new storm sewers The NYC Departments of Environmental Protection, Transportation and Design and Construction have completed two infrastructure projects totalling $128m in Whitestone, Queens that added nearly six miles of new storm sewers…
Projects JV starts building $819m Potomac River Tunnel to curb sewage spills A joint venture of CBNA and Halmar supported by engineers Cowi and Hatch has started an $819m design-build contract for the 5.5-mile-long Potomac River Tunnel, intended to control sewage overflows…
Innovation The clever way we fix sewer pipes fills the air with nanoplastics, research finds A helpful method for fixing underground sewage and water pipes in a way that avoids digging big trenches is actually pumping tiny plastic particles into the air, often in densely…