Morocco has this week opened a pipeline intended to transport 400 million cubic metres of water a year to Rabat and Casablanca, website Atalayar reports. The 66km pipeline cost around…

The Korean government has secured the right to negotiate a $1bn water supply project for an industrial park in Bangladesh, website Business Korea reports. The announcement was made by Korea’s…

Industrial equipment maker Atlas Copco has shared pictures of its underwater pneumatic drill being used to break up rocks under Malta’s Grand Harbour. The plan is to lay 800m-long cables…

Engineering and design consultant Atkins, part of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has quickly generated layout plans for 170km of new water pipework in Nepal, improving supply and hygiene for thousands of…

French engineer Suez Group and contractor Vinci have won a contract worth €700m to refurbish and extend a wastewater treatment plant in Nice, France. It will be the biggest facility…

Eleven construction workers have been killed following heavy rains in Islamabad, Pakistan. A wall was damaged by the wind and rain, causing it to collapse onto workers tents at a…

Skanska USA has completed its $38m renovation of the Tampa Convention Center in Florida, built in 1990. It built a 23,500-sq-ft extension and added 18,000 sq ft of waterfront meeting…

Californian contractor Granite has been awarded a $48m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build flood defences for the city of Wharton, Texas. Wharton is susceptible to…

Balfour Beatty has finished a $300m extension of the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, which treats water prior to its discharge in the Sacramento River, where it will be reused…

Skanska USA has completed the $72m Coachman Park waterfront redevelopment in Clearwater, Florida. Skanska provided construction management at risk services for the 24-acre park and entertainment venue. Stantec was the…

Ferrovial subsidiary PLW Waterworks has won a $200m contract to build a new wastewater treatment plant in Pflugerville, Texas, a fast-growing suburb of Austin. The plant will treat up to…

Danish architect Henning Larsen has designed a ferry port for Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, which is inspired by traditional Faroese fishing boats and the historic local harbour.…

A recently completed $17m traffic corridor in Rockaway, Queens, has used porous concrete on the pavement to improve drainage. The Beach 108th Street project was designed to accommodate increased pedestrian…

China’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear power reactors that would provide electrical power to islands on the South China Sea have been suspended over security concerns, the South…

A paper by oceanologists at the University of Rhode Island claims New York will sink by 1-2mm a year under the weight of its buildings. The Weight of New York…

Work began on Saturday to construct a reservoir in central China’s Chongqing metropolitan region, website CGTN reports. The Zaodu Reservoir project, which is expected to cost $14bn, will benefit more…

Morocco will spend $14.3bn on drinking water and irrigation schemes in a renewed push that started in 2020 and runs to 2027, news site Atalayar reports.  It has one of…

Fisia Italimpianti, a subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild Group, has landed two deals worth $350m to build and manage a water treatment plant at the Zuluf offshore oil field in Saudi…