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The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have severely damaged water infrastructure, contaminating the municipal water supply and prompting residents to avoid tap water. Flowpoint emphasizes its commitment to water management and safety, highlighted in its blog post "Reclaiming Our Water," which explores innovative solutions for ensuring water quality during crises. As Los Angeles focuses on recovery, Flowpoint aims to support the restoration and protection of water resources through advanced treatment systems and expertise in water management. For more details, refer to the full blog post. https://lnkd.in/eeJ9B44B #WaterCrisis #Wildfires #Drought #Sustainability #Engineering #BulkWater #WaterUtility

Why Dewatering is Essential for Winter and Spring Construction? Winter and spring bring rain, melting snow, and high groundwater levels, which can flood construction sites. Water accumulation can lead to safety hazards, unstable soil, environmental damage, and costly delays without proper dewatering. Effective dewatering keeps sites safe by preventing slippery surfaces and ice formation. It stabilizes soil, ensuring strong foundations, and helps protect nearby ecosystems by controlling runoff. Most importantly, it keeps your project on schedule, even during challenging weather conditions. This season, prepare your site for success by investing in expert dewatering solutions to stay safe, compliant, and efficient. #ConstructionSafety #DewateringSolutions #WinterConstruction #SpringConstruction #GroundwaterManagement #ConstructionEfficiency #SitePreparation #RainySeasonReady #EnvironmentalProtection #SafeConstruction #FoundationStability

Great news for Exmoor National Park! Over £450,000 is being invested in sewer revitalisation to protect this beautiful landscape straddling Somerset and Devon. Work is wrapping up to renovate the local sewer network to prevent pollution and flooding, using innovative 'no-dig' techniques for a quicker, less disruptive process. ✨ The upgraded pipes will ensure a reliable service and protected environment for years to come. We’re planning to invest nearly £450 million between 2025 and 2030 to improve storm overflows across the region and progressively eliminate the discharge of untreated sewage into rivers and the sea. Follow us to get the latest updates on our ongoing projects. Visit our website for more details: https://lnkd.in/e2njCjeS #Exmoor #WessexWater #EnvironmentalProtection #CommunityInvestment

In addition to ravaging homes, destroying timber and demolishing habitat, wildfires damage water and air quality in the short and long term. #wildfire #waterquality #waterpollution #watercontamination #drinkingwatercontamination https://lnkd.in/etxKKjg2

40% of natural disasters are floods. We have the technology to manage our stormwater more efficiently --it's easier than you may think. And once you capture the rainwater, you can reuse it. Restore your aquifer, irrigate landscaping and more while reducing strain on potable water resources. Which #future are you preparing for? Let's #BuildBetter infrastructure for stormwater management, together! We have the solutions. Let's go. #StormwaterManagement #UrbanPlanning #ResilientInfrastructure #WaterManagement

Neglecting drains and culverts can lead to a block to the flow of water, causing flooding. As well as the inconvenience and cost to human activity, we sometimes overlook the harm that flooding does to the environment, including wildlife, plants and the soil. Click to learn more on the importance of maintaining your surface water drainage systems. https://lnkd.in/drg25qYn #PreventFlooding #DrainageMaintenance #ProtectWildlife #WaterManagement

Rio Grande River Drought The Texas Tribune’s latest article about the Rio Grande drought really struck a chord with me. This river is a lifeline for so many in Texas and Mexico, and its current state is alarming. As someone in the water infrastructure field, I know we need to do better. Here’s how: 🔹 Use advanced water tech 🔹 Conserve every drop 🔹 Fix our infrastructure 🔹 Work together across borders This drought is a wake-up call. Let’s act now to protect our water and our future. Read the full story: Texas Tribune Article https://lnkd.in/dj7QvqmF #WaterManagement #Sustainability #RioGrande #WaterConservation

“It’s forcing that decision that all of us in coastal communities are going to face eventually, but some are already facing now: Do I stay or do I go?” It’s not seawater lapping at living rooms that will force large-scale abandonment of coastal #realestate due to #climatechange. Sea level rise will be the culprit, but its first manifestation will be collapsing septic tank systems. As the water table rises, such systems begin to fail by releasing untreated #sewage. The #publichealth impacts are already mounting. Some #cities are able to extend their sewer systems to communities under threat, but what of areas that are too far from the nearest sewer line? A #Miami exurb or rural community in coastal #Georgia may not be able to adapt by building a full-fledged #watertreatment system. They could be the first areas to be abandoned.

Here's a Wednesday knowledge bomb about water drainage. Did you know that Edmond city limits are drained by seven different watersheds? 💧 Why it's important: You may have heard the old adage about certain things running downhill, and water is, of course, no different. Stormwater runoff affects and is affected by public infrastructure and private development and the quality of our drinking water depends on responsible control and monitoring of what goes into storm drains, creeks, and rivers. #edmondok #waterquality #development

Public concern about freshwater scarcity is growing, yet provincial funding for critical watershed security work has dried up. In an op-ed published today in the The Vancouver Sun, Living Lakes Canada’s Executive Director, Kat Hartwig, alongside Neil Fletcher and Zita Botelho, outlined a plausible way for the province to fund this work. By levelling appropriate charges for industries that withdraw large amounts of B.C.’s fresh water, the province could generate funds to support existing, on-the-ground initiatives addressing wildfires, floods and water scarcity – initiatives such as Living Lakes’ Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework, which provided water data to help firefighters locate water sources during the 2024 Argenta Creek wildfire. However, with resources dwindling, this program and others like it will be forced to scale back staff and monitoring sites, weakening the region’s ability to manage water and wildfire effectively. 📣 Read the full op-ed: https://ow.ly/7arj50UIF58 Photo: Crew members with the Argenta Safety and Preparedness Society study water resources map © Louis Bockner #WatershedSecurity #WaterMonitoring #ClimateAction #FreshwaterScarcity