Virginia Tech Compiling Water Pipeline Infrastructure Database

When the world’s most precious resource faces some of the world’s most severe problems, people spring into action. That’s never been truer than in water preservation and reclamation. One university entity is undertaking a five-year program to address water challenges related to infrastructure and failing pipelines. Sunil Sinha, a professor at Virginia Tech’s (VT) College of Engineering, will head up PIPEiD, the Pipeline Infrastructure Database. This national database will include data on the reliability of the nation’s aging water pipelines and become, as Sinha says, “a living knowledge database.” The program, which initially launched last year, is finally underway