Lake Thun repeatedly broke its banks when there was heavy rainfall or melting snow. The outflow channels were incapable of handling the huge volumes of water and, as a result, the…
Read moreThe Queens Bored Tunnels are a part of the East Side Access Project, and are the last major tunnel connection between Queens and the Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. After…
Read moreSingapore has experienced an enormous economic growth during the last few years. Due to the number of inhabitants, five million, traffic infrastructure requirements have increased,…
Read moreThe Italian gas supply company, Snam Rete Gas S.p.A., aimed to permanently increase the flexibility, capacity and reliability of gas transport in the Po plain by constructing a…
Read moreThe idea was for a number of supply lines to canalize the water coming from the mountains around Madrid to prevent flodding. Planning envisaged, for instance, a 3.51-meter-diameter…
Read moreSpain suffers from a shortage of water. To improve the supply of fresh water in Madrid, another one of the numerous reservoirs in the mountains around the metropolis – in the form…
Read moreAt the Bigge valley reservoir dam in Sauerland, the "Ruhrverband" (association of Ruhr cities) was having the supply line system – in the form of the Biggerand sewer – completed…
Read moreThe large city of Jeddah on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia plans to extend its sewage system with the help of a comprehensive master plan. So far, only 20 percent of households are…
Read moreA good two-thirds of the population of Costa Rica lives in the favorable climate of the highlands, known as the Valle Central – including 350,000 in the capital San José. Here,…
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