For several years, residents of riverine areas in Ojo, a suburb of Lagos State, have had to contend with their worst fears. Water transportation, their main means of moving in and out of the vicinity, was becoming increasingly dangerous. The shallowness of the water had made it practically impossible for boat ...

To many, the damming of the La Fourche appears a mistake, for it affects the water transportation to New Orleans by way of the Mississippi and gives the railroads an advantage. On the Lower Bayou this caused trouble also, as the salt water injured the machinery of the sugar and rice plants. But it has ...

At home, the next governor will face a number of emerging crises — in housing and homelessness, water, transportation, and criminal justice, to name just a few. He or she will also have a tough act to follow in Jerry Brown, the state's only four-term governor. Brown's famous fiscal prudence helped guide the ...

But many companies operate in industries where the California government is highly engaged: energy, water, transportation, new technologies, healthcare. It's helpful to build your credibility through positive PR activities before you need to make an important ask in the legislative and regulatory process.

“It can be different types of water transportation means, either underground, pressurised pipelines or open air canals, drinking water pipelines or water transportation for irrigation,” explained Krapez. However, some challenges remain when it comes to images interpretation, due to the high heterogeneity of ...

... to producers in multiple unconventional shale plays; storage and transportation, which owns and operates natural gas storage facilities, and NGL and crude services, including crude oil rail terminals, the Arrow gathering system, its fleet of over-the-road crude oil and produced water transportation assets, ...

On Feb. 28, the South Korean National Assembly passed a bill aimed at reducing the country's maximum working hours from 68 hours a week to 52. This comes five years after parliament first started discussions to revise the law. The labor reform won by a landslide vote, with 151 in favor, 11 against and 32 ...

However, this will be reduced to just five industries: (i) land transportation; (ii) water transportation; (iii) air transportation; (iv) transportation support activities; and (v) healthcare services. And a continuous break of at least 11 hours between work shifts will be required for workers in these five industries.

packH2O is positively impacting lives around the world by providing a means to safe water transportation and storage. Since 2012, over 225,000 packH2O packs have been distributed around the world. In Kenya, over 25,000 packs have been deployed by Partners for Care who will be facilitating the ...

The Governor noted that under the state's vision to commence water transportation on a larger scale this year, his administration targets to develop 13 creeks across the riverine communities of the state, to make for easy movement of vessels and goods, adding that the Nigerian Navy has a major role in ...

The Payaya and other tribes used the Yanaguana for water, transportation, food and more, for thousands of years before the Spanish are thought to have first visited the area in the 1500s. For these original peoples, the river was so important that it was even a significant part of their spiritual lives. In 1691 ...

... ground and water transportation from 2019 to 2022. Trump's plan proposes to spend the $200 billion in federal funds to spur investment partnerships at the state, local, tribal and private level. It focuses on returning decision-making authority to local and state governments, requiring those entities to match ...

Advocates for improving and restoring U.S. inland navigation facilities expect to secure a third consecutive two-year national water projects bill this year. Despite Congress' habit of agreeing to little in an election year, Michael Toohey, executive director of Waterways Council Inc., pointed out Tuesday at a ...