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• Bureau of Reclamation Launches Prize Competition Looking for New Ways to Detect Leaks and Flaws in Large Buried Pipelines

  The Bureau of Reclamation has launched a new prize competition seeking innovative methods and technologies to detect leaks and flaws in large buried pipelines that deliver water for municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses. Currently, no practical method exists to detect leaks and flaws in large diameter pipelines. Read More  →

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  Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman Addresses NWRA Conference

  On April 9, 2018, Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman gave the keynote address to the National Water Resources Association. The keynote was at National Water Users Association Federal Water Issues Conference 2018 in Washington, D.C. Read the transcript  →

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  Bureau of Reclamation Selects Eight Ideas for its More Water, Less Concentrate Prize Competition

  Eight ideas were selected from the Stage 1 portion of the More Water, Less Concentrate prize competition. The competition sought innovative concepts to expand usable water supplies by maximizing fresh water production from inland desalination systems in a cost-effective and environmentally sound manner. The solvers will share $150,000. "The demand for fresh water will be increasing, and we need to be able to develop new water supplies from non-traditional water sources, like brackish groundwater and surface water using desalination and novel technologies," Commissioner Brenda Burman said. Read More  →

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  Reclamation Hosts 2018 PCI Big Beam Load Test

  On March 27, senior engineering students from Colorado State University participated in the 15th annual Prestressed Concrete Institute’s Big Beam Load Test Competition. CSU is participating for the third time. The PCI Big Beam Competition provides students with an opportunity to design, fabricate and test a precast/prestressed concrete beam with the help of a local precast concrete producer. The PCI Big Beam Load Test Competition was the first event of its kind held in Reclamation's Technical Service Center. Read More  →

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  Bureau of Reclamation Announces Fiscal Year 2018 WaterSMART Program Funding Opportunities

  The Bureau of Reclamation has released three funding opportunities for fiscal year 2018, Water and Energy Efficiency Grants, Small-Scale Water Efficiency Projects and Water Marketing Strategy Grants, all of which are part of the Department of the Interior’s WaterSMART program initiative. Read More  →

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  Bureau of Reclamation Extends Public Comment Period for Project Use Power Draft Directive and Standard Until May 11, 2018

  The Bureau of Reclamation has extended the public comment period on the draft directive and standard that defines the eligible uses and recipients of project use power and related cost recovery and rate setting methodology. Comments are due by May 11, 2018. Read More  →

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  Bureau of Reclamation Announces Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Funding Opportunity

  The Bureau of Reclamation has released a funding opportunity through its Desalination and Water Purification Research Program for fiscal year 2018. This funding opportunity invites private industry, universities, water utilities, and other research sponsors to submit proposals to cost share laboratory scale and pilot scale projects that address DWPR program goals and objectives. Read More  →

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  People of Reclamation: Meet Katie Guerra, Chemical Engineer

  Reclamation employs some of the top engineering experts in the world. Katie Guerra is one of those experts. She first attended the University of Colorado where she received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. She then went on to pursue her Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering, and Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Today, Katie is a Chemical Engineer in the Water Treatment Group – part of Reclamation’s Technical Service Center in Denver, Colorado. Read More  →