As part of the World Water Congress & Exhibition, the IWA and the Australian Water Partnership will convene government and business leaders, NGOs, scientists and international organisations to the global Water Scarcity and Drought Summit. [ + ]

Emerson Process Management is replacing an outdated SCADA system and remote terminal units (RTUs) used throughout Hampton Roads Sanitation District's (HRSD) vast wastewater collection system. [ + ]

Thousands of clean and renewable industry experts are expected to attend this year's All-Energy Australia Exhibition and Conference, taking place from 4–5 October. [ + ]

Seven councils in the Northern Inland region of NSW will benefit from the installation of newly installed energy-efficient street lighting under a project coordinated by Regional Development Australia Northern Inland (RDANI) and funded by the Australian Government. [ + ]

Waste Summit 2016, held as part of Waste Expo from 4–5 October, is a free-to-attend conference on waste management and resource recovery. [ + ]

The Bondi Wastewater Treatment Plant is now producing enough renewable energy from waste to power 100% of the plant. [ + ]

As part of South Australia's 2016–17 Budget, the solid waste levy will increase from $62 per tonne to $103 per tonne by 2019–20. [ + ]

ESCO Pacific has secured planning consent for the development of a 135 MW solar farm near Townsville — an area which receives high solar irradiance and an average 320 days of sunshine annually. [ + ]

POSCO E&C has successfully completed construction and trial operations of a waste-to-power plant in the Polish city of Krakow, valued at $250 million. [ + ]

The Pork CRC has conducted what is claimed to be the first comprehensive study using life-cycle assessment (LCA) to benchmark greenhouse gas emissions from pork across the full production system. [ + ]

Waste management provider Cleanaway has announced the acquisition of Brisbane-based business Waste 2 Resources, effective as of 1 July. [ + ]

Research by Josh Byrne & Associates has identified the top 10 challenges preventing greener and more liveable cities — with the federal government's lack of formal recognition of the value of plants and trees in cities said to be the single greatest challenge of all. [ + ]

Cleanaway Waste Management has selected US-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) to design, engineer, manufacture and install a 50-tonne-per-hour commingled recycling system at the company's new materials recovery facility in Perth. [ + ]

The end of May marked a major milestone in off-grid renewables, with a pioneering solar and battery storage project in remote Western Australia becoming fully operational. [ + ]

Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia Josh Frydenberg has announced a series of measures intended to save Australian households and businesses energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering energy bills by increasing building and appliance energy efficiency. [ + ]