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Black & Veatch today announced the launch of BVInfraIQ, an AI-enabled digital infrastructure intelligence platform that transforms complex operational data into actionable intelligence and real-time, prioritized recommendations to optimize asset performance across the entire end-to-end human critical infrastructure value chain.

The core challenges of industrial wastewater treatment center on the "three highs"-high difficulty, high cost, and high energy consumption.

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $11.75 million in grant funding for midsize and large drinking water systems to help protect them from cybersecurity threats and improve resiliency against extreme weather events. This funding, through the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability grant program, will support ten projects and affirms EPA’s commitment to ensuring all Americans have access to clean and safe drinking water.

The City of Brownsville has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that is expected to provide up to $220M for water and wastewater infrastructure projects designed to increase water availability in Brownsville and Cameron County.

After two weeks of negotiations on how to tackle land degradation, desertification and drought, the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) concluded today in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 

Water Mission, a Christian engineering nonprofit, is sending a Disaster Assistance Response Team to Nepal in response to catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides in the Nepal-China border region. Initial reports indicate that more than 500 people have been killed and more than 1,500 remain missing, though these figures are preliminary and the full scale of the disaster is not yet known. With communities cut off and widespread damage to roads, homes, and other critical infrastructure, the number of people killed, missing, displaced, and otherwise impacted could be significantly greater. The tragic scale of the need is expected to become more apparent in the coming days as access improves and assessments continue.