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2002
|
Bangladesh dying
from high arsenic levels |
Severn Trent joins with AdEdge for arsenic solutions to
small communities |
Atlanta water
system falling apart? |
Stockton, CA
to host marathon public hearings on water partnering |
Australian
women to perform nude raindance |
Florida
Water Svcs objects to forced sale |
Fayettville
considers water/wastwater surcharge |
Stockton, CA
advances to private operations |
Tisbury, RI
tries to dump Earth Tech engineering |
New Jersey to
try new techniques to squeeze more water for drinking |
Singapore to
recycle and desalinate water |
Zenon sells
its largest ZeeWeed to Singapore |
Vivendi
pulls-out of water industry |
China welcomes
private partnerships |
Is Pres. Bush
using EPA to punish Democratic strongholds? |
Delaware
considers underground storage and wastewater re-use |
New Orleans
abruptly cancels privatization effort |
PIRG report says most wastewater treatment plants in
violation |
California water
agencies rate state legislators |
OMI plant in Norwalk investigated by Feds |
PSC buys another small PA wastewater treatment company |
Jackson, MS awards expanded contract to Severn Trent
Services |
California advances
desalination |
California water
storage system rejected |
Mass.
Air Force water treatment plant burns |
Georgia voters
rank water with jobs and schools |
Stockton --
today's battleground on privatization |
What went wrong
with the Atlanta water project |
Severn Trent awarded operations of Alamogordo, NM |
Severn Trent gets Baltimore audit contract |
US Filter's
equipment division sold for $620 Million |
Stockton, CA
to unveil bids for private water operations |
Wilmington, DE explores desalination from Zenon |
Atlanta to review
United Water contract |
Len Graziano appointed CEO of Severn Trent USA |
Stockton, CA
moves to privatization referendum |
Severn Trent awarded UV and Chlorine contract by Flagstaff,
AZ |
RWE of Germany to end buying blitz with one "last"
acquisition |
Stockton, CA
citizens resist secrecy of contract ops proposals |
Tisbury, MA
selectman add to Earth Tech consulting contract |
SUEZ buys US
Water for subsidiary United Water |
Tisbury, MA
wastewater treatment plant to cost $1 million more |
Albany, NY gets
$115,000 to help plan water security |
Bridgeport, CT
to re-bid private operations of wastewater plant |
New York State
allows Rockland County design-build-operate wastewater systems |
Vivendi to
sell controlling interest in environmental division |
Stockton, CA
does not agree to privatization referendum |
Victor Mercado, VP
of Thames USA, to head Detroit, MI water system |
Severn Trent teams with Apyron Technologies offer
anti-arsenic solution |
Webster, MA hit by
e.coli contamination |
Mike Stump, former PSG Pres. guilty of bribery |
Severn Trent Services get renewal of Louisiana contract |
Philadelphia Suburban rolls-up more water systems |
EPA to invest
heavily in water security |
NYC does not
have to filter Catskill-Delaware watershed if it invests |
SUEZ creates new environmental division |
Oconee County, GA
to build new wastewater treatment plant |
Florida man
arrested threatening to poison MA water |
Zenon ranked best
corporate citizen of Canada |
Vivendi may sell
environmental services |
Fitchburg, MA
rejects sewer improvement program |
New Bedford, MA
to consoidate, regionalize and reduce staff |
NYC officals
object to criticism of terrorist protection |
Vivendi sells all of its stake in Philadelphia Suburban |
NYC water
system vulnerable to terrorist attack |
Orlando aquifer
contamination |
RWE seeks new chief |
United Water wins
Puerto Rico water operations contract |
Vitamin
enriched bottled water is newest wrinkle in $2 Billion/year market |
Coming drought
questions cooling water for power plants |
Earth Tech wins
pharmceautical wastewater treatment plant |
Covanta Energy
files Ch. 11 bankruptcy |
Woolseley of UK to
buy Clayton of Florida for $110 M |
Rockland, NY
examines gray water recycling |
US Filter
proposes DBO with 20 yr contract for Buffalo, NY |
Alabama construction
company president convicted of Egyptian bid rigging |
Enron's
Azurix walks from Argentine contract |
Bridgeport
Mayor Ganim bribery trial date set |
E'Town to process
wastewater of new Patriots stadium |
Tampa Bay ranks six
sites for desalination plant |
United Water offers Delaware City seasonal water swap |
Indianapolis
may buy private water company to keep rates low |
New York City
faces dire drought |
New York City
wastewater treatment plant to generate electricity from fuel cells |
Wash. DC, awards
United Water largest US meter contract |
2001 |
Indianapolis
to outsource enitre water works |
Metropolitan Water
Dist. CA seeks proposals for ocean desal |
ECO
Resources wins five year, $1 million R/O operating contract |
Zenon stock
soars on analysts valuation |
Zenon sells $8
million ZeeWeed to German wastewater plant |
Michael Chesser
chosen Chairman/CEO of United Water |
NSF/EPA verifies
new technologies from Severn Trent for water disinfection |
Philadelphia Suburban "rolls up" Consumers Ohio
Water and Paupack Water |
WPC bursts on scene |
EPA unveils rule on industrial cooling water regulations |
Pennsylvania DEP
proposes improved stormwater management |
Innova Water
Company to market sports bottle anthrax filter |
American Water
completes acquisition of Azurix |
RWE to acquire
American Water |
RWE buys Thames Water |
Suez / United
Water parent reports strong quarter |
Steps to safeguard water supply -- Bay Area |
Dept. of Interior rolls back Clinton-era environmental regs |
Legislators worried
about water supply safety |
EPA says anthrax
risk to water systems small |
Tampa Bay desalination plant OKed by courts |
Florida
Water earnings flat for quarter |
Government
contractor develops contaminant "sniffer" |
Bay College,
Mich., revives water program; seeks instructor |
EPA establishes water protection task force |
Taunton
Engineering expands sales force through Hydronics and US Sales |
Syracuse
conference of mayors judged a success |
Azurix-America
wins 10 contract for London, Ontario |
EPA grossly
underestimated effect of arsenic in water |
Suez now trades
on the New York Stock Exchange |
American Water Works
to be bought by German utility RWE AG |
Taunton
Engineering wins major project in NYC |
Kansas City
mayor vows to freeze water rates and meet standards |
John Joyner Joins IMG as Managing Director of development |
Hudson, MA may stop new sewer hookups |
EPA slammed on poor enforcement |
Florida
Water bids for Citrus County public utility |
America's aquifer is
shinking; land is sinking, sewage can't flow, water can't be drunk |
EPA catches environmental violators -- big fines, long jail
terms |
American Water
Works to acquire Azurix North America |
House votes to
restore Clinton-era arsenic standards |
United Water wants out of the real estate business |
Bush
administration seeks 18 month delay of river and lake cleanup |
Zenon in
filtration pact with ONDEO Degremont |
United Water granted 10 year extension to Hoboken
contract |
US FDA will
NOT regulate Cryptosporitium in bottled water |
Florida
Water Co operators beat all competitors |
NRDC sues EPA for
failure to regulate arsenic |
Bergen County
Executive may veto utility authority's ending privatization talks |
Bergen County NJ
drops privatization -- cuts 2/3's work force |
Azurix awarded $2.6
million in new contracts |
Feds
investigate Bridgeport con-ops contract |
Florida
water forced to over-charge customers to subsidize needy |
Zenon sells
$7million ZeeWeed contract to Samsung |
New London, CT
seeks consultant for new con-ops contract |
Seattle to raise
water rates, once again |
Zenon wins $10
Million membrane contract in Italy |
Mark Strand appointed head of Government Affairs for
American Water |
Florida
Water employee named paralegal of the year |
Wet wipe
wars...Procter & Gamble to battle Kimberly Clark for moist wipe market |
Zenon get $17
million in new orders for Zee Weed |
Seattle awards CH2M-Hill / OMI with DBO project |
Bush may restore arsenic restrictions |
American Water Works buys Citizens Utilities'
Arizona Water |
Bush's 2001
EPA budget |
Seattle tries new
plan to share savings with wastewater plant |
New Jersey union
defends against OMI contract operations in Bergen County |
Bush rejects Kyoto
Accord but would consider alternative emission reduction |
Senator Barbara
Boxer introduces bill to set chromium 6 standard |
Orange County, CA in first phase of sewage recycling
|
Dutch utility
Nuon buys Utility Inc. of Northbrook, IL |
EPA head, Whitman,
ignored by Bush on carbon dioxide promise |
Whitman denies
Bush betrayed his promise to her |
Georgia
establishes first water planning district |
Severn Trent takes Oklahoma contract from US Filter |
Seattle wins
achievement award, in part, thorugh DBO approach |
Seattle to
surcharge new sewer hook-ups |
Fayetteville, AK
to fix sewers with one cent sales tax |
Bergen County, NJ
Con Ops negotiatin with OMI stuck by labor travail |
New Orleans
plans contract operations |
Vivendi
profits are up on 35.2% profit gain in water services |
Zenon awarded
$5 million shipboard sewage system |
Watchdog group
reviews New Orleans procurement |
King Co.
Washington Copies Corporate Practices |
Detroit
Votes Rate Hike of Ozone Treatment |
Atlanta Sewer
Works Win One-Day $ Strike -- New Costs Coming? |
City of
Indianapolis to Buy Private Water Company |
American Water Buys Coatsville, PA Water System
|
Detroit
Approves Rates Hikes Up to 11.6% |
Zenon Teams with
Evac for Shipboard Sewage |
Christie
Whitman, Gale Norton Confirmed for EPA and Interior |
AMSA Tells Nation Federal $ Needed for Water/Wastewater
System Replacement |
USFilter Gets
Labor Support for Contract Renewals |
Seattle Expects
Higher Water Rates |
Seattle Sewer
Plant to Test Fuel Cells |
Christie Whitman
Unanimously Endorsed by Committee |
Gale Norton
Endorsed as Sec. of Bureau of Land Mgmt |
Michigan
Water Rates to Climb |
Pittsburgh Interviews 7 Water Companies |
Environmentalists Fear Bush |
Rio Rancho, CA to Self-finance $21M Arsenic Reduction |
Herbicide-free
Gardening to Save the Salmon |
Fort Smith,
Arkansas Rehabs Water / Sewer System with Sales Taxes |
New Toilet
Tissue Coming, Soft on Bottoms, Tough on Pipes? |
EPA to Tighten Sewer Regs, Cost to Cities: $100 Billion |
Sen. Boxer Pushes
for Tougher Chromium 6 Restrictions |
Pasco County, FL
"Municipalizes" Private Water Companies |
Stockton, CA
Requests Proposals for DBO |
Upper Dublin,
PA Seeks to Sell Sewer System |
Atlanta to Raise
$4.5 Billion for Sewer Pipe Replacement |
Seattle Celebrates
Water Conservation |
Los Angeles Spills Sewage 2000 Times in 5 Years
|
Pittsburgh Rushes to
Hire New Management Company |
Water Industry
Council joins Nat. Council of Public Pvt. Partnership |
Ohio may triple
water and sewer rates |
Christie Whitman
named Administrator of US EPA |
Tampa Bay may
increase rates to lower water usage |
Alabama Workers
Fight Privatizaton |
Don Correll Retires
from United Water |
Alabama County to
Borrow to Increase Sewer Expansion |
Arkansas Town Votes
to Expand Sewer Capacity and Raise Rates |
OMI Wins Malcolm Baldrige Award for Excellence |
2000 |
100 Votes Separate Leaders as 1,500 Votes Discarded |
United
Water's Virtual Plant Could Save Cities Millions |
Lame-duck Congress May Award $1.5 Billion for
Sewers |
Earth Tech Awarded 10 MGD DBO in Scotland |
US Filter Opens
New Jersey D-B-O |
Enron Buys Back
Azurix |
Ionics Signs for
Largest De-Sal Plant |
Atlanta Suburb
Planning 1 MGD Wastewater Plant |
ATG Wins $4.3 Million Wastewater Con Op |
Earth Tech Wins
Wastewater Contract in Washington |
Southwest Water
acquires two Austin companies |
Feds probe Atlanta
water system bid-rigging |
Thames acquisition
of E'town approved |
Vivendi
Environmental in strong move to cut debt |
Ionics lowers earnings expectations for 3 Qtr. 00 |
Germany's RWE to
Buy Thames for $6.5 Billion |
Thames Gets $6 Billion Takeover Offer |
Tainted
bottled water strikes NYC |
Bechtel gets huge
Bay Area water system project |
Coors beer spill
kills fish |
Rebecca Mark
resigns as CEO of Azurix |
US Water Takes
Springfield, MA -- Biggest in Con Ops in New England |
Key West to Hold
Water Rates |
OMI Resumes
Negotiation for Bergen County, NJ |
Lori Doyle Named
Vice President for American Water Services |
Philadelphia Suburban Buys Summit Water System |
Pennsylvania
DEP Recalls Coliform Contaminated Bottled Water |
Birmingham, AL
Votes Against Privatization of Water System |
Bergen County,
NJ Con-Ops Award Delayed |
Details of Suez-Lyonnaise Purchase of United
Water |
Vivendi deal may
be doubt |
City of
Santa Monica Sues Oil Companies for MTBE in Water |
Miami Beach Still
Too Contaminated for Swimmers |
Asurix Takes Two
Deals from U.S. Water in New Jersey |
Ionics to Build
Huge Caribbean Desalinization Plant |
Vivendi May
Shed Water Business |
Messier of
Vivendi turns Utility into Cyber Media Giant |
Alabama to Spend
$15 Million for Wastewater |
American
Water Gives Customers More Info Sooner |
New York City
May Spend $6 Billion for Filtration |
Philadelphia Suburban Buys Applegrove Water |
Los Angeles
Fears Sewer Water Reclamation |
Aquarion's BHC
Buys Village Water System Company |
Philadelphia Suburban is Fastest Growing Water Company |
Philadelphia Suburban Buys Fulmor Heights |
USFilter Awarded
$1.4M/yr DBOF Kentucky Contract |
Atlanta Must Spend
$2 to $4 Billion to Upgrade Wastewater Facilities |
Penn. State Senator
William Slocum Convicted, Imprisoned Deposed for Polluting |
U.S. Filter to
Design, Build and Operate Tampa Bay Facility |
Iltron
Awarded Automated Meter Reading by Denver |
Badly Polluted Beaches Threaten United Kingdom |
U.S. Filter
Designs, Builds and Operates Recycle Plant in Hawaii |
Phil. Suburban
Buys Another Water Company |
Atlanta Awards
O&M Contract to OMI |
Vivendi Sells
Metcalf & Eddy |
Randers-Killam
Merges with Thermo Electron |
Phil. Suburban Rolls-up Another Wastewater System |
Tampa Bay Chooses
US Filter for $135 Million DBO |
"Erin
Brockavich" Awakens Water Fear |
Southern
Company to Operate Virgin Island Water and Power |
VERSAR Awarded Con Ops Army Contract in New Jersey |
Opposition
to Wastewater Plant Operated by Phil. Suburban |
United
Water Offers Homeowners Pipe Insurance |
Huge Investment
Urgently Needed for Water Infrastructure |
Zenon Awarded Big UK
Contract |
Lucent Tech and
Wessex Water Join in High-tech Water Software |
Schmidt Named CEO
of Aquarion BHC (Kelda Group) |
Southwest Water (ECO) Wins Bakersfield, CA Con Ops |
McInerney New Chairman of Aquarion BHC (Kelda
Group) |
Feds to Research MTBE Removal |
American Water
Services Launches New ConOps Services |
AquaSource May
Build Desalinization in Massachusetts |
Salt Lake City
Residents Plead for Clean Water Spending |
United Water
Shareholders OK Lyonnaise Buyout |
Asurix to Invest
in, or Operate Pritchard Alabama |
Oregon Crowds Protest Water Rates |
Twenty-Two Mayors Receive Awards of Water Excellence |
Southwest Water
to Offer Contract Operations through Inland Pacific |
Albuquerque, NM
Tries to Buy Private Water Systems |
ARCADIS Geraghty
& Miller Help Florida Acquire Water and Wastewater |
Kelda Group
(Yorkshire Water) Purchases Aquarion |
Canton, Ohio to increase water rates by 50% |
1999
|
Portage, Ohio to monitor water usage by remote computer |
Water
Utiliites to Use Internet to Bill in New Century |
Suez
Lyonnaise des Eaux to Merge with Nalco |
Atlanta fined $2.8
M for Sewer Lines |
Water Plants may not be Y2K Ready |
Job Losses in UK Water Industry Spread to Wales |
Yorkshire UK
to Cut 500 Jobs |
Anglian UK to
Cut 400 Jobs -- Severn Trent to Cut 1,100 Jobs |
Alabama to Build
$15 Million Filtration Plant |
Akron to Spend $
¼ Billion to End Water Pollution |
Thames Water, LLC to Buy E'Town of NJ |
Ohio City Ends
Con Op Talks with Help From Malcolm Pirnie |
Azurix in
Dogfight with Syngro over Bio Gro |
Click this
for draft EPA Privatization Guidelines |
American Water
Works Buys San Jose Water |
Bergen County Picks
OMI Over United Water and PSG for Wastewater |
Little Rock
39% Muni Water Rate Hike Inflames Ratepayers |
New Jersey Residents Demand Sale of City Water Company |
Zenon Environmental Wins Big New Zealand Project |
Florida Sewage
Spill Threatens St. Lucie |
American Water
Works to Buy Citizens Utilities' Water Unit |
AmericanAnglian
Dissolved -- American Water Buys Joint Venture |
Asurix Buys J&J
Barker to Gain Foothold in Florida |
Gulfport Votes to
Privatize |
Aquarion Merger
with Yorkshire (Kelda Group) Approved |
American
Anglian Wins Strongsville, OH Project |
Citizen's
Utilities to Sell Dozen's of Con Ops Projects in 22 States |
Recovery Engineering (PUR water filters) Bought by Proctor
& Gamble |
Suez
Lyonnaise Buys All of United Water Resources |
Contract
Operators Burned in Birmingham; City Picks Own Staff |
David
Chardavoyn Named President of Thames US |
Malcolm Pirnie Chooses Garret Westerhoff Chair/CEO |
Atlanta Fined
$700,000 in Addition to $2.5 Million ... Big Changes Expected |
EPA Mandated Gasoline Additive Polluting Ground Water |
Discontent EPA Employees Cast Doubt on Agency Value |
AmericanAnglian Signs Moore County, NC |
United
Water Takes Pro-Active Approach to Prevent Crises |
American Water
Works to Buy Projects from United Water in 4 States |
Zenon to Buy
Back Shares to Raise Stock Value |
US Water's
Clients Are Now Y2K Compliance |
City of Camden
Finally Gets Good Water |
American
Water Works Acquires Natinal Enterprises |
Suez
Lyonnaise to Acquire Nalco Chemical Co. |
Chicago to Try
Ozonization to Replace Chorine |
Dames &
Moore Bought by URS Corp. |
Atlanta Under
Pressure to Increase Wastewater Capacity |
Atlanta Municipal
Error Spills Sewage into Chattahoochee |
Well Water May Cause
Ulcers |
IRS Now Allows
Portability of Employee Benefits for Privatization |
Azurix and Its
IPO Stock Value Holds Strong |
Trojan Splits Stock -- Does Well With UV Purifying |
Kansas City Considers Privatizing Water --
Unions Oppose It |
Pennsylvania to Drink Recycled Wastewater |
Illinois Appropriates Funds for
Private Water Operations |
Yorkshire Water Buys Aquarion |
California Bond Issue Proceeds |
Philips Sale to Asurix -- Done Deal |
Chattanooga Shenanigans -- Mayor Under
Fire |
American Water Works Buys Empire District
Electric |
United Water Growing Fast ... Adding Computer
Services |
Raftelis Estimates Chattanooga to Save
$107 Million Re-Privatizing |
Chattanooga Determined to End American
Water Works' Franchise |
Pur Filter -- Brian's Story |
Consultants to Water Industry Earn $10+
Billion |
California Water Services Group Reports 67% Gain |
Vivendi to De-merge Water Utilities |
ECO Resources Gets 5 Year, $3 Million
Contract |
Atlanta Privatization: Round Two Coming Soon |
Competition for Atlanta Wastewater Facility to
be Fierce |
NJ's Whitman Threatens Water Quality --
Water Companies Protest |
State-by-State Review of Funds Allocated
for Water |
Lyonnaise des Eaux Awarded Major China
Water Contracts |
Lyonnaise des Eaux Invests $9 Million in
DNA Pathogen Detector |
Arsenic Common in Private Well
Water |
Changes at the Top for American Water |
Milwaukee RFQ for Commercial Services
Available Here, Now |
Milwaukee Provides Answers to RFQ for
Commercial Services |
US Water Reports Early Success in Camden, NJ |
Bottled Water Quality Questioned by NRDC |
Vivendi to Buy US Filter |
Enron to Issue $350 Million Initial Public
Offering for Asurix |
Philip Water Services to Sell Out to Asurix |
California Water to Buy Dominguez Services |
Arsenic in Public Water at Dangerous Level According to
Panel |
Portland Considers Conservation-Priced Water/Wastewater
Rates |
Toronto Rebels at Consulting Costs |
Puerto Rico Inceases Aqua Alliance
Contract |
Birmingham, AL NEW RFP
-- Proposals Due March 19, 1999 |
Birmingham, AL Project
Description |
Philadelphia Suburban Cleared to Buy Coatsville Wastewater
System |
Chattanooga, TN
Receives 6 Qualifications Packages |
Bergen County Union Now Fights to Privatize Utilties
Authority |
Bergen County, NJ, Issues RFP for Long-Term Service Contract |
Union Official Accused of Stealing Members Money in
Milwaukee |
Lynn, MA Plant Tour Feb. 9, 1999 |
Lynn, MA RFP Avail., Proposals Due May 3, 1999 |
Naugatuck, CT Seeks to Replace Private Operator |
Camden, NJ to Award 20 Year Contract to US Water |
Joint Meeting, NJ, Requests Oral Presentations |
Earth Tech Signs Gardner, MA to $33 Million
Design-Build-Operate |
South West Water Receives $2.3 Million Contract |
Don Correll Predicts Strong Industry Growth |
Phil. Suburban to Buy Plumstock Water |
Springfield, MA to Outsource Wastewater Facility |
Crypto Outbreak in Texas Municipal Water Facility |
Civil Action Strikes Fear in Hearts of New
Jersey-ites |
Autism Cluster Found in New Jersey |
Do N.J. Clusters Really Mean
Anything? |
Sacramento Wastewater Discharge Soars: Stronger Enforcement |
Atlanta Signs United Water to U.S. Biggest
Con-Ops Deal |
Atlanta Privatization in Capsule |
U.S. to Treat 25 MGD of Tijuana Wastewater |
Water Engineering Management WIC Article on
EPA Privatization |
Water Environment & Technology Article
on WIC vs.EPA |
Water World and Water
Engineering Report on WIC Actions |
Severn Trent Unites in Houston |
Earth Tech to Acquire Rust Engineering |
Georgia Can REQUIRE Privatization of Non-Complying
Plants |
United Water Services to Build
Ultrafiltration Plant in Texas |
Evansville, IL Praises American Anglian
Partnership |
United Water Services Signs Milwaukee |
OMI to Manage DOE Facility for $14
Million |
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