The company is now growing its portfolio from municipal wastewater projects to include industrial contracts, desalination and water-reuse projects.
Lum is now actively looking to break into India, where authorities may finally allow foreign companies to bid for water-treatment projects.
Jim Noe, general counsel of shallow-water drilling contractor Hercules Offshore defended shallow-water drilling, saying such projects tap relatively low-pressure reservoirs, making blowouts less likely.
Such issues by state and local governments and authorities, many of them tax-exempt, are used for public purposes such as schools, sewers and water systems-financing projects often launched by elected officials and closely scrutinized by taxpayers.
An administration spokeswoman said the government had told companies seeking permits to drill in shallow water to wait "a day or two" until regulators issued guidelines for new permit requirements for shallow-water drilling projects.
Even with all current deep-water projects going forward full blast, the oil market is anticipated to be extremely tight.
But deep-water projects take a long time to turn from a prospect that a geologist has identified into a producing asset.
President Obama also announced a moratorium on all deep-water drilling projects.
's chief executive said last week that he expects to add new barrels of oil to its reserves from "several major deep-water projects" in future years.
Infrastructure facilities are engaged in investment in toll road projects and water-related business.
Starting with small projects, such as a water-treatment system for Singapore's bird zoo, she gradually got bigger and better projects.
Such an approach can help use less water, eliminating the needs for capital-heavy investment such as desalination projects or long water pipelines.
The bill also removes the dedicated funding for green infrastructure, water efficiency, and environmentally innovative projects that communities used to implement forward-thinking water management solutions that protect clean water and save them money.
One, much of the stimulus money for infrastructure is going into repaving roads instead of long-term projects such as water infrastructure, which is in woeful shape.
Shell has announced investments in a number of projects including a deep-water project in Nigeria and an oil recovery project in Oman.
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So far the grassroots group has completed about 20 low-cost clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects, including hand dug wells, rehabilitation of existing wells and construction of communal latrines, that have benefited at least 7, 000 people.
Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
Buying bonds backed by the full faith and credit of a governing authority and revenue bonds backed by sewer and water are the safer than bonds for private-public projects that require a business to make money to pay back debts.
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As the details of Gibson's arrest dominated water cooler conversations, the future of his high-profile projects came under question.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A water company that puts all of its profits into clean water projects in developing countries has created an environmentally friendly bottle out of biodegradable plastic.
He starred in two non-Twilight projects in the past two years: Remember Me and Water for Elephants.
In fact, the military is constantly testing green-power projects, such as a contraption that provides power and purifies water, or even a mobile nuclear reactor.
Building on its relationships throughout the developing world, Water for People partnered with Akvo to develop an Internet-based system for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on water and sanitation projects.
And unlike its rivals, Hyflux is one of the few companies in the world that provide a full suite of water solutions, from basic engineering and design to managing "build-own-operate" projects.
Each USACE District has a tribal liaison that works one-on-one with tribal governments in areas of engineering, water resources, and other various environmental projects.
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Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
She is also trying to pursue an "asset-light" strategy to avoid the burden of supporting the capital investment needs of building and owning huge water projects.
One good example for the SAI Platform from Coca-Cola is how the company has been connecting the sustainability dots between biodiversity and water in its support for wetlands projects in Europe.
Billions of dollars of needed road, port, rail, power, water and airport projects are behind schedule, a familiar Indonesian story made worse by the turn inward on some high-visibility deals where global contracting could help.
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