Dear Sir or Madam,

After a long summer break we are now back with the latest news and information from the sector of underground infrastructures.

This UNITRACC Newsletter edition tells you about the international workshop on the reduction of drinking water loss, which took place on the United Nations Campus in Bonn, Germany. The workshop was organized within the scope of the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and UN-Habitat. During the workshop UNITRACC was introduced as a web-based education portal to qualify staff and to tackle problems such as drinking water loss sustainably. Read more in the UNITRACC News Section.

There are also new additions to the UNITRACC Area "Information". In the Technical Information System "Trenchless Technology for Installation of Cables and Pipelines" by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Stein now also the chapters on "Steering, Measurement and Monitoring" of pipe jacking projects as well as on "Soil Deformation" are available. They cover all requirements and necessities to keep the pipe string's deviation from the design position as small as possible and thus to prevent errors during jacking. At the same time the chapter on soil deformation introduces all kinds of deformation, explains calculation processes and possible effects of soil deformation.

Get unresticted access to all 37 Technical Information Systems on UNITRACC already with a UNITRACC Starter Package.

Enjoy exploring the underground with UNITRACC.

Kind regards,

Dr.-Ing. Robert Stein
(UNITRACC Editor)

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH

Experts and decision-makers from all over the world look for collective resolutions to reduce loss of drinking water

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH provides sustainable education and training of market players with web-based training portal
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Thames Water

Essential investment for the future: Thames Water outlines £6.5 billion plan for water and sewerage services

Thames Water has published proposals for its largest ever investment programme while still keeping customers’ bills below the industry average for the next five years.
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Robbins

Robbins TBM overcomes high overburden at Olmos

A 5.3 m (17.4 ft) Robbins TBM is standing up to the pressure in Peru. The Main Beam machine is boring a 13.9 km (8.6 mi) long tunnel through the Andes Mountains, beneath up to 2,000 m (6,500 ft) of...
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Water UK

Treated sewage sludge

Water UK comments on an article regarding the use of treated sewage sludge (biosolids) in agriculture which appeared in the British newspaper Guardian on 29 August 2008.
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Per Aarsleff A/S

Aarsleff to build water treatment plant in Sri Lanka

Aarsleff has won a contract for the building of a new, large potable water treatment plant on the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. The plant will have a daily water treatment capacit...
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UNW-DPC United Nations University

The world loses 45 million cubic metres of water every day - UNW-DPC looks for applying solutions

Reduction of the loss of drinking water is the overall topic of the UNW-DPC workshop taking place from 3-5 September. Reducing the loss of drinking water could provide nearly 90 million people with...
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Borealis AG

Borealis and Borouge present latest developments for sustainable plastic pipe solutions at Plastics Pipes Conference XIV in Budapest

Borealis and Borouge, leading providers of innovative value creating plastic pipe solutions, will present a series of papers outlining their latest polyolefin technology developments and cutting-ed...
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Organising Committee of XIV Pipes Conference

Key items for Plastic Pipes Conference

More information is being released about some of the technical papers that will be presented at Plastics Pipes XIV. This Conference brings together the global plastic pipe community and will be hel...
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Hatch Mott MacDonald

Hatch Mott MacDonald opens offices in Tulsa, OK and Houston, TX

Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM), is pleased to announce two new office openings to support its rapidly growing pipeline business. New offices in Oklahoma and Texas will provide the firm an expanded geog...
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ITT Water & Wastewater

New residential grinder eliminates sewage blockages

Twenty-five years experience in grinder pump development has now resulted in the Flygt DXG residential grinder that turns all solid matter into sludge.
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HOBAS

Clean water for the Baltic Sea

Kaliningrad with its half a million inhabitants is a Russian exclave situated at the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. Given this relatively large number of inhabitants it is understandable ...
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The Robbins Company

Robbins machines mine under NYC?s Grand Central Station

A 6.7 m (22.0 ft) rebuilt Robbins machine boring the East Side Access Project has reached its first heading under Grand Central Station (GCS).  The Double Shield machine, rebuilt by SELI, is t...
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Borealis

Borouge helps secure fresh water to every house in Malkapur village, India

Through their Water for the World™ initiative Borouge and Borealis, leading providers of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, are helping the State of Maharashtra in India to supply...
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Water UK

Water industry supports development of anaerobic digestion

Water UK welcomes today’s announcement by Defra to boost support for anaerobic digestion (AD) in the UK.
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Yorkshire Water

Giant pumps arrive in Hull

Two giant pumps which will provide emergency back-up in the event of extreme weather have arrived at the Bransholme surface water pumping station.
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Thames Water Utilities

Super-sewer plans to improve the River Lee

Thames Water has applied for planning permission to build and operate a 'super-sewer' that will help prevent sewage overflowing into the River Lee during heavy rainfall.
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Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Water Environment Federation announces the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium

The Water Environment Federation (WEF), the WateReuse Association, and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) will present the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium from September 7-10, 2008 at the ...
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North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT)

WESTT Regional No-Dig Conference slated for Oct. 13-14 in Sacramento

As underground utility work continues to be of main interest in the West Coast states, the Western Society for Trenchless Technology (WESTT) will provide valuable information and solutions for many...
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Stephen Hinton

Nordic Steel Mill solution reduces water treatment costs

Transporting mill scale with water to create a continuous recycling loop reduces costs by eliminating much manual handling and allowing continuous operation in less space than traditional solutions...
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Peter Oppinger (Head of Marketing at VAG-Armaturen GmbH)

Replacement of valves in the gate valve house of the Schwammenauel dam and hydropower station

The Rur dam with the Schwammenauel hydropower station is located in the Nordeifel mountains near the city of Heimbach. With its storage volume of 203 million m³ it is one of Germany's largest ...
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Sandvik Rocktools

Drifting & Tunneling - New Sandvik Alpha 330 tool system creates synergy between 20-kW rock drills & 45-mm drill bits

An extraordinary 30 to 80 per cent increase in rod life, more accurate collaring and straighter blast-holes are the main benefits of Alpha 330, a brand new tool system developed by Sandvik. Designe...
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Peter Oppinger (Head of Marketing at VAG-Armaturen GmbH)

Control valves used for bottom outlets in dams and in hydro-power plants

Normally Butterfly Valves are used as on-off valves and are usually installed in a valve chamber on the water side of bottom outlet lines in dams or in gravity lines leading to water treatment plan...
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Chris Taylor, MBA

Continuous sand filters used in major Saudi irrigation project

The Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, north of Dhahran, in Saudi Arabia, will be able to recycle 10 mmgd of high quality tertiary water for irrigation purposes, saving approximately 3 billion ga...
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ITT Fluid Technology - USA

Grit-resistant slurry pump for Oklahoma wastewater treatment plant

Cost-effective engineering has enabled the City of Poteau, Oklahoma to achieve major savings while undertaking recent upgrades to municipal wastewater treatment facilities. The approach, using a gr...
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Plastics Pipes XIV

This Conference will build on the success of previous Conferences, including Plastics Pipes XIII, which attracted over 450 delegates to Washington DC, USA, in October 2006. It has become fully Inte...
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2008 ITA World Congress

Early warning for one of the biggest international events in the tunnelling conference calendar - the gathering of the International Tunnelling Association.For further information, please go to htt...
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No-Dig Live 2008

This is the ninth major event for the trenchless technology and utilities industry.To apply for preliminary information, please visit the website http://www.westrade.co.uk or contact the organ...
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IFAT CHINA 2008

IFAT CHINA is the trade fair in Asia covering an extensive range of practical solutions in the areas of water supply, sewage, waste disposal, recycling, air pollution control, environmental technol...
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All events in September

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