Tag: water utilities
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Calgary’s 2024 Feeder Main Break: Independent Review Finds Systemic Gaps in Water Utility Governance
Overview of the Findings An independent review into Calgary’s 2024 feeder main rupture concludes that the city’s approach to governing and maintaining its critical water utility assets has been hampered by persistent inefficiencies, fragmented oversight, and aging infrastructure. The report characterizes the issues as systemic rather than isolated incidents, suggesting that gaps in governance, risk…
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Europe’s Surface Waters: A Unified Monitoring Plan to Track Antimicrobial Resistance
Why Europe Needs a Pan-Continental AMR Water Monitoring System Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to public health, and natural environments like rivers, lakes, and coastal waters can host resistant microorganisms. Europe-wide monitoring of AMR in surface waters offers a path to better data on health risks, more informed policy decisions, and swifter responses…
