Stormwater/Urban Water Articles

The U.S. EPA is launching a new design competition to encourage student teams on college and university campuses across the country to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management...

The Minnehaha Creek watershed is preparing for extreme weather events associated with climate change by studying how the changing climate impacts the capacity of stormwater infrastructure and how communities can use that information to adapt...

Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (ADS), maker of corrugated plastic pipe, has announced plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Watertown, South Dakota...

Commemorating Earthday, the Clean Water America Alliance presented six outstanding organizations the 2012 U.S. Water Prize in a ceremony attended by 300 U.S. water leaders...

In celebration of Earth Month, Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is partnering with River Network to donate more than 1,000 syrup drums for reuse as rain barrels in communities all across the country...

During his keynote address at AWRA's GIS and Water Resources Conference, Colonel Robert Ruch highlighted the use of new GIS smartphone applications in sharing critical technical information among experts and improving the allocation of engineering resources during the record Missouri River floods in 2011...

Communities looking for the most cost-effective options for managing polluted runoff and protecting clean water should choose green infrastructure solutions, according to a report released by American Rivers, the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and ECONorthwest.

Engineering students will swelter a lot less in the University of Delaware's Colburn Laboratory classrooms, thanks to grant funding and some unique engineering by the school's landscape design program to create an environmentally-friendly green roof...

Fort Walton Beach, FL, has selected InfoSWMM from Innovyze to meet its stormwater network modeling requirements...

The Pennsylvania Senate has unanimously passed Senator Ted Erickson's Senate Bill 1261 allowing municipalities to create stormwater authorities...