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Aug 08, 2011 News Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, Ugandan Minister of Water & Environment the Hon. Maria Mutagamba, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, launched on 21 June 2011 the “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015”, a push to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal target of improving global sanitation by 2015. WSSCC is playing a key role in developing the advocacy strategy and materials and will work collaboratively with other partners supporting the initiative.
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Aug 09, 2011 News EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency When it rains, did you ever think about where all that rainwater is going? It flows down storm drains, carrying pollution from the streets, and if it is a heavy rain, causes sewage to overflow into rivers, lakes and streams.
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Aug 10, 2011 News - ADB Media Center - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $200 million in dual-currency loans to the China Water Affairs Group Limited (CWA) to improve the delivery of treated water to households and businesses in fast-growing small- and medium-sized cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Aug 16, 2011 News Donna Alston Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) announced an agreement with American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) to purchase all of American Water’s regulated operations in Ohio and to simultaneously sell Aqua’s regulated operations in New York to American Water. Both companies are now the largest investor-owned water utilities in each of the two respective states.
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Aug 17, 2011 News Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced it has executed a strategic teaming agreement with ioBridge, Inc. of Marlborough, Mass., to develop and deploy "smart" technologies for the management of urban stormwater infrastructure.
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Aug 19, 2011 News Julie Marks Political commitment, donor interest and increased awareness of the need to manage Darfur's scarce water resources sustainably were among the key outcomes of a two-day international conference organized by the Sudanese Government and its international partners in Khartoum.
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Aug 23, 2011 News CWCExhibitions The International Energy Agency predicts oil and gas will meet the majority of the worlds energy demand for the foreseeable future raising the spot light on the role water plays in oil and gas production. Oil and gas companies looking to achieve sustainable growth will increasingly have to manage their water footprint, as well as their carbon footprint. Never has there been the need for collaboration between these sectors in order to secure the future of world energy demands.
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Aug 25, 2011 News Diana Milford Testing of equipment has begun on Scottish Water’s new £24million treatment works that will supply clearer, fresher drinking water to over 10,000 people in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park.
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Aug 26, 2011 News Mike Croy Starting with an efficient irrigation system designed to alleviate some of the problems associated with water waste is one of the messages behind the Irrigation Association’s Smart Irrigation Month in July and a reason why KISSS America’s revolutionary and water-efficient subsurface capillary irrigation products are the smart choice for landscape irrigation.
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Aug 29, 2011 News TaKaDu TaKaDu, a Water Infrastructure Monitoring pioneer, announced its first commercial deployment in the Latin American market, at Aguas de Antofagasta, Chile.
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Aug 31, 2011 News Christopher Walsh The Water and Sanitation Program, a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank released a series of reports pointing out that households that invest in basic sanitation have a better quality of life and could increase up to seven fold the return on investment in economic benefits.
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Sep 01, 2011 News Magdalen Loh ST Electronics has been awarded a contract by the Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore’s national water agency, to provide consultancy services, and to develop and implement parts of an Intelligent Water Management System (IWMS). The company has embarked on the project which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2012.
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Sep 02, 2011 News Brianna Home Soft Ground Machine ramping up for Launch at Chinese Water Tunnel
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Sep 06, 2011 News Dr. Ulrich Eberl A new biological water purification facility developed by Siemens generates enough methane gas to power its own operations. It also produces much less sludge than conventional systems. The pilot facility for this process, which is located at a site run by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board, has been operating in an energy- neutral manner since June 2010. Now, the city state is building a much larger pilot facility – one that will process 300 times more effluent than its predecessor, or about as much sewage water as is produced by around 1,000 people.
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Sep 07, 2011 News Jeri Lamerton The Ditch Witch® organization announces the release of the All Terrain Air Hammer, which is designed to work with All Terrain directional drills to penetrate the hardest rock.
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Sep 08, 2011 News Mark Snider United Water has opened a national command center in Boise, Idaho, to coordinate the company’s response to Hurricane Irene. United Water owns or operates water and wastewater utilities located on the East coast ranging from Georgia to New Hampshire.
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Sep 09, 2011 News Peter Bate Project backed by the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sep 12, 2011 News Adam J. Simonsen Advanced GIS-Centric Modeling Technology to Support Comprehensive Water Systems Improvement Projects
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Sep 13, 2011 News Tina Lægaard Aarsleff enters into framework agreement with the wastewater company Fredericia Spildevand A/S for sewer rehabilitation in Fredericia Municipality.
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Sep 14, 2011 News Group Communications (KI) The purpose of the new strategy is to achieve world class performance in value creation through higher growth and profitability and thereby make Sandvik an even more attractive company for customers, employees and shareholders.
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Sep 15, 2011 News Tricia Bowes Despite the weather or unseasonable conditions, customer training is able to proceed at TT-UK’s bespoke indoor trenchless training facility.
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Sep 16, 2011 News Christopher Walsh According to a new report released by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) at the World Bank, African countries that transition to taking a leadership role in safe water and sanitation service delivery to the millions of people without access have an unprecedented opportunity to drastically reduce these numbers by 2015.
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Sep 19, 2011 News Maxence Naouri Through subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets (60%) and Soletanche Bachy (40%), VINCI has been announced winner of the contract to design and build two tunnels in Chile. The contract, awarded by Codelco, the country’s national copper company, is worth $400 million.
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Sep 20, 2011 News Paul Gennaro AECOM Technology Corporation announced that it has been awarded a design and construction management contract for the US$66-million Dugway West Interceptor Relief Sewer in the Cleveland area. AECOM's total fees are worth approximately US$10 million.
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Sep 21, 2011 News Aaron Rosenberg IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has provided a $5 million loan to Indian water services company, Vishwa Infrastructures and Services Private Limited, to help increase access to water and improve sewage treatment in two midsized Indian towns.
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