In 2012, Greenwood, a small city in British Columbia, won best municipal water.
Two are university programs, like AguaClara, a research program at Cornell University that produces municipal water treatment technology which relies on gravity rather than electricity.
The Pentagon's ultimate goal of creating a single network of sensors may also benefit state and local programs designed to monitor air pollution, noxious fumes and municipal water supplies, the report stated.
Santa Cruz chose to improve the municipal water utility instead, using World Bank loans, as La Paz had done (and so disproving the myth that the Bank lends only to privatised schemes).
The idea is to experiment with projects that pay farmers to reduce nutrient pollution, using money that would otherwise have been spent on expensive technology for use by institutions such as municipal water authorities.
He was also a politician of sorts, earning nearly 30% of the vote -- after he'd publicly stood by his neo-Nazi views -- in a race to join the Western Municipal Water District board of directors in Riverside County.
While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
Few of us are fortunate enough to enjoy clean municipal tap water -- the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled filters and wasteful bottled H2O.
The group is thinking of pooling municipal services such as water and waste disposal, and even setting up a joint holding company.
Separately comes a report that municipal bonds backed by water utilities may also be heading toward a crisis due to stress on water tables around the nation.
Patents have been filed, the senior team assembled, and letters of intent collected from Aera Energy (heavy oil), PERC Water (municipal wastewater), Filterboxx (oil sands in Calgary), and EPRI.
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Entrants representing countries from Bosnia to South Korea submit a total of more than 100 waters among four categories, including best municipal (tap) water, best bottled non-carbonated water, best bottled carbonated water and best purified (distilled or mechanically filtered) water.
In a statement, the Shanghai municipal government said that the water in Huangpu River, which is a major source of drinking water for Shanghai, was safe.
Radiation readings on Thursday showed levels in water in Tokyo had fallen back below the danger level, but the municipal authorities are distributing thousands of bottles of water to households with infants.
While the source of water currently received by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is filtered, sewage leakage and the poor management of waste often contaminates drinking water on its way into the homes.
Well, now add to that list water from the East Bay Municipal Utility District.
Yet its market is not only heavily regulated, but also fragmented: tens of thousands of municipal monopolies provide nearly all of its water and sewerage.
At the heart of the scheme was corruption in municipal contracting, mostly centering on the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, said Barbara McQuade, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
For citizens of these targeted states, it will mean long delays and much higher costs in the planning and building of highway projects, water projects and any other kind of municipal or state infrastructure development.
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The company is now growing its portfolio from municipal wastewater projects to include industrial contracts, desalination and water-reuse projects.
Dickerson was schooled in the ways of water by serving on the board of a small municipal utility in Colorado in the late 1970s.
In the early 1990s, when privatisation was still heresy in Brazil, Mr Palocci, then mayor of Ribeirao Preto, a city in Sao Paulo's farmbelt, sold the municipal telephone company and called on private investors to build a water-treatment system.
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More recently, the Municipal Council rejected the mayor's plan for a city-owned water management corporation.
Most municipal infrastructure projects tend to be conservative and follow the last 100 years of water management policy: centralized processing and hard infrastructure.
"You really want to look into the swimming pool to see if there is water in there before you dive in, " said James Spiotto, a municipal bankruptcy expert at the Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler law firm.
The news came as Shanghai's municipal government confirmed that over 16, 000 pigs corpses had been pulled from Huangpu river, which supplies drinking water to Shanghai.
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