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	Jul 12, 2012 News Xylem Inc. Xylem Announces Partnership with Visenti at Singapore International Water Week Xylem Inc. and Visenti Pte LTD announced a new partnership at Singapore International Water Week. Xylem and Visenti will form a joint partnership to develop the smart optimization of water networks by utilizing energy-efficient technology and smart sensing platforms. These technologies will reduce energy consumption, maximize water quality and ensure optimal network conditions around Singapore’s water infrastructure.
	Jul 13, 2012 News Simone Grönemeyer Aker Wirth's new tunnel boring system embarks on a journey – Innovation for underground mining and tunneling Together with Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, Aker Wirth developed a new, innovative tunnel boring system within Rio Tinto's "Mine of the Future" programme.
	Jul 16, 2012 News PUB, Singapore’s national water agency PUB Singapore and MEIDEN SINGAPORE collaborate on first Ceramic Membrane MBR Demonstration Plant to treat and recycle industrial used water PUB, Singapore’s national water agency and MEIDEN SINGAPORE (MSL) announced the signing of an agreement to establish the first Ceramic Membrane MBR Demonstration Plant in Singapore to treat and recycle industrial used water in a more energy-efficient and cost-effective manner.
	Jul 19, 2012 News AbTech Industries, Inc. Abtech Begins Department of Defense Installations Abtech Holdings, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of patented innovative environmental technologies addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, announced that it has completed stormwater treatment installations at two military bases located in Utah and California, with additional installations under development.
	Jul 20, 2012 News Ángela Fúnez More than 3,500 indigenous and rural households in Panama will receive water and sanitation services The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a grant for $7.5 million from the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean to provide drinking water and sanitation services to more than 3,500 rural and indigenous households in Panama.
	Jul 23, 2012 News Mike Azzi IBM, Notre Dame, Emnet Help South Bend, Indiana Protect Public Health, Reduce Pollution with Smarter Cities Cloud Analytics IBM announced that South Bend, Indiana is using its Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) for Smarter Cities software-as-a-service (SaaS), to dramatically overhaul its water management system, preserving public health and saving the city hundreds of millions of dollars. South Bend is the first city in the world to manage its water systems in the cloud.
	Jul 24, 2012 News Mike Vellano Inland Pipe Rehabilitation Announces New CIPP Solution For Trenchless Renewal Of Drinking Water Lines Inland Pipe Rehabilitation (IPR) announced that it is now in a position to immediately begin rehabilitating drinking water pipes with its licensed cured-in place pipe (CIPP) system, RS BlueLine®.
	Jul 25, 2012 News Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH COSMA – Quantifying the Risks from Subsurface Activities from the Perspective of Groundwater Protection In consequence of the search for new energy sources and the development of climate protection strategies, novel technologies are increasingly being used which can have a direct impact on local and regional geological soil formations and with it also on the quality and composition of groundwater.
	Jul 26, 2012 News Xlibris Corp. New Book Tells the Complexity of Building a Massive Canal System Richard Lanyon writes about an innovative public works engineering effort to save Chicago from a perilous nuisance and public health crisis.
	Jul 17, 2012 News Saipem S.p.A Saipem awarded new E&C onshore contract worth $350 million Saipem won a new onshore E&C contract worth approximately $350 million in Saudi Arabia.
	Jul 27, 2012 News Silke Rockenstein Grand Gala for an All-Round Success Story The 35-year company anniversary and his own milestone birthday gave Herrenknecht AG Chairman of the Board of Management Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht a good reason to celebrate in style. More than 2,000 guests from politics, the customers, the tunnel industry and his company's workforce joined him to enjoy a high class evening gala in the Baden-Arena in Offenburg.
	Jul 30, 2012 News EFQM Russian Water Supplier Wins an Award for Creative Use of Social Media SUE Vodokanal of St Petersburg wins the EFQM Award for creative use of social media. With their platform da-voda.com they make water supplying, often considered for granted, a more appealing and important business to youngsters. Moreover, they create awareness for the environmental impact of extensive water consumption. In addition, Virgin Media and Comarca Bilbao, are awarded "highly commended" projects.
	Jul 31, 2012 News ThermoEnergy Corp. ThermoEnergy Corporation Signs Deal to Deploy Mobile Frack Water Production System ThermoEnergy Corp., a diversified technologies company engaged in the development and sales of wastewater recovery and power generation technologies, has announced the signing of a contract to deliver ThermoEnergy's first commercial frack water production system to an oil and gas services company.
	Aug 01, 2012 News Ina Coretchi EBRD helps Turkish municipality improve water services The EBRD is continuing to support the modernisation of water and wastewater infrastructure in Turkey with a loan of up to €20 million to finance the construction of Mezitli wastewater treatment plant in Mersin, a Mediterranean port city located in the south of Turkey, with a population of close to one million people.
	Aug 02, 2012 News Lena Zemke SPR Europe`s UNILINER™ for sewer pipe rehabilitation: Pipe lining nightshift in the city of Brussels In sewer rehabilitation projects, the available time window for rehabilitation is often the deciding factor for which method or service provider is chosen. This is demonstrated by a spectacular project, which was carried out by the Belgium branch of KMG Pipe Technologies (KMG PT), the construction company of SPR (SEKISUI Pipe Rehabilitation) Europe, in Brussels in January 2012.
	Aug 06, 2012 News Betsy Day Pentair Foundation Announces $1 Million Grant to Water Missions International to Fund Safe Drinking Water Projects Worldwide More than one billion people worldwide – roughly one out of every seven – have no choice but to use unsafe, contaminated water. To help solve this issue, Pentair, Inc., a leader in sustainable water solutions, and its Foundation announced today a new five-year grant totaling $1 million to the non-profit Water Missions International (WMI). The multi-year grant will fund the implementation of clean water and sanitation projects in developing countries, further building on the work of Pentair's Project Safewater initiative with WMI.
	Aug 07, 2012 News Adam J. Simonsen Innovyze Releases Next Generation InfoWater VCM, the Ultimate Solution for Infrastructure Criticality and Vulnerability Assessment In its ongoing quest to equip the global drinking water industry with the world’s most comprehensive and innovative GIS-centric smart water network modeling and management solutions, Innovyze announced significant new enhancements to its InfoWater VCM (Valve Criticality Modeling) software.
	Aug 08, 2012 News Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH CARISMO – Using the Chemical Energy of Wastewater The organic matter contained in wastewater represents a largely unused renewable source of energy of approx. 0.8 kWh/m3. Instead, energy is expended in wastewater treatment on the biological degradation of these substances.
	Aug 13, 2012 News Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH Optimisation of Sludge Dewatering in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants – KWB launches project Decamax Sludge treatment and disposal still remain one of the key positions of operating costs in large municipal wastewater treatment plants. In particular, sludge dewatering through centrifuges has a major impact on the operation costs.
	Aug 10, 2012 News Achim Kühn Flashes of Light at the End of the Tunnel Excavation of a complex tunnel system for the XFEL European research facility in metropolitan area Hamburg was successfully completed in early June when the Herrenknecht AMELI tunnel boring machine entered its last target shaft. AMELI and its TBM sister TULA had to be relocated several times for the eleven tunnel sections between the research center DESY in Hamburg Bahrenfeld and Schenefeld in the district of Pinneberg. Exact laser technology provided by the Gesellschaft für Vermessungstechnik (VMT) kept the two TBMs perfectly on course over the route totaling 5.78 kilometers.
	Aug 09, 2012 News Global Water Technologies, Inc. Global Water Technologies launches new effort to reduce water loss Global Water Technologies is pleased to announce that its new partnership with Martinek Water Management GmbH, is moving forward with efforts to set up a pilot project in the United States to provide real-time monitoring of leak conditions and reduce loss in drinking water systems.
	Aug 14, 2012 News Jill Browning Valero selects Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies for boiler feed water system at Gulf Coast refinery Valero, with corporate headquarters in San Antonio, TX, has selected Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies to supply a complete boiler feed water system to its St. Charles refinery located in Norco, LA (USA). The treatment system will incorporate Veolia's patented ACTIFLO® Turbo clarification technology to treat water from the Mississippi River.
	Aug 15, 2012 News J. Lawton King Ex-Im Approves $64.9 Million in Financing for Water-Supply System in Sri Lanka For the first time since 2008, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized a sovereign transaction – a $64.9 million, 12-year direct loan – to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to finance the design and construction of the Badulla, Haliela and Ella Integrated Water Supply System by Tetra Tech of Pasadena, Calif.
	Aug 16, 2012 News Jake Wells Pipeline Analytics Achieves Silver Partner Status with Esri Pipeline Analytics, the company delivering WinCan pipe inspection and asset management software to North and South America markets, has achieved Silver Status in the Esri Partner Network. This accreditation recognizes WinCan software for having robustly integrated Esri’s ArcGIS geospatial technology platform, and the Pipeline Analytics team for having become fully conversant in this platform.
	Aug 17, 2012 News Karin Brightwell Aquatech awarded contract to install wastewater recycle and zero liquid discharge system in China Aquatech, a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets, has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and supervision of installation and commissioning of a concentrated brine treatment plant at the Chinacoal Tuke Fertilizer Project in China. The project is located in the city of Ordos in the Inner Mongolia region.