Due to COVID-19 lockdown measures in India, factories are closed. Prior to the lockdown, plants dumped waste into the river. Now that they are shut, the Yamuna River and other rivers in India are clean again, with fish, turtles, and birds. Let’s hope Indians grow to appreciate the clean water and beauty of the river sufficiently enough to protect it from future damage.
Continue reading →More than 15,000 of the 90,000 dams listed in the national inventory are designated as having high hazard potential. If they break, the resulting catastrophe is likely to cost lives. If a dam fails catastrophically, huge amounts of sediment can be washed downstream, clouding the water and moving contaminants. “Dams like that shouldn’t be failing.” “They…
Continue reading →The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card is published every four years. The most recent Infrastructure Report Card was released in 2017. It gave America’s infrastructure a grade of D+. The report card highlighted the urgent need for infrastructure improvement for aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, schools, solid waste, transit, and wastewater….
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