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	Feb 27, 2013 News Chor Mui Lee 18 Banks Sign Innovative $100 Million B-Loan for Access to Safe Water The Asian Development Bank is partnering with 18 banks to help China Water Affairs Group Limited (CWA) to increase access and improve water efficiency in small- and medium-sized cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
	Feb 28, 2013 News African Development Bank Group African Water Facility Promotes Safe Sanitation, Hygiene Education for Urban Poor in Liberia The African Water Facility (AWF) offers a €1.2 million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
	Mar 01, 2013 News Manila Water Company Inc. Manila Water Introduces Innovative Wastewater Technology For the first time in the Philippine water utility industry, the Manila Water Company, the Ayala-led water concessionaire in Metro Manila’s East Zone, has pioneered the use of a unique and advanced dewatering technology to effectively treat wastewater and lessen sludge from treatment plants, called as the Geotube® technology after its Innovations (R&D) team worked on it.
	Mar 04, 2013 News Tyler Henning McElroy Creates Super 250 TracStar Machine The popular TracStar® 250 has a new ordering option for customers. Named the "Super 250," the fusion machine pairs a 250 fusion machine carriage for fusing 2-inch IPS to 8-inch DIPS (63mm to 225mm) polyethylene pipe with a larger tracked chassis powered by diesel fuel.
	Mar 05, 2013 News Fusion Group Ltd. Severn Trent Water Endorses RedBox RedBox has been given the official nod for its role in improving PE pipe jointing: compulsory specification by Severn Trent Water to their contractors.
	Mar 06, 2013 News Simone Grönemeyer Aker Wirth TBMs deployed in one of the most important infrastructure projects in Europe In December 2012, the final functionality tests were carried out for the first tunnel boring machine in the south line of the construction lot, KAT2, of the Koralm tunnel; in January, it was put into operation. The second TBM will begin tunneling in the north tube in March 2013. The two machines will be deployed for the main section (approximately 18 km in length) of the 32,9 km long Koralm tunnel. This tunnel is part of the new major high-speed train route between Graz and Klagenfurt in Austria.
	Mar 07, 2013 News Pure Technologies SmartBall Leak Detection Featured in International Research Project by Sydney Water Sydney Water is completing a five-year international research project to examine why and when critical water mains burst.
	Mar 11, 2013 News Géraldine Quelle Solar water supply in Pakistan The solar company Phaesun GmbH from Memmingen has installed 200 solar water pumping systems in 12 districts in Pakistan. The latest systems were successfully put into operation together with the Pakistani partner Izhar Energy by December 2012 in the district of Sukkur.
	Mar 12, 2013 News Sandvik Mining Sandvik to acquire Canadian drilling solutions provider Sandvik has signed an agreement with Cubex Limited (CUBEX) to acquire its drilling solutions business and operations.
	Mar 13, 2013 News African Development Bank Group African Water Facility to Support Access of Urban Poor to Sanitation in Uganda The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in the Kawempe Municipality, in Kampala, Uganda.
	Mar 15, 2013 News Lena Zemke Sewer rehabilitation with SPR technology in Poland: Project wound to perfect close When the town of Kety in Poland needed to rehabilitate sections of two egg-profile sewer lines with large diameters in late summer 2012, SPR Europe was able to offer the town the perfect solution with its spiral-wound pipe method. With controlled live flow, it took 10 weeks to line the 425 metres of DN1000/1720 and 93 metres of DN1400/2100 concrete pipe with the SPR™ liner.
	Mar 18, 2013 News Robert Cooke Fortrans Inc. Unveils New Technology To Aerate Waste Water With Dif-Jet Gas Infusion Device Fortrans Inc. Wendell NC announces new technology for aeration of wastewater. The new Dif-Jet™ gas infusion device is a less expensive alternative to ordinary diffusers, injectors and sparger designs for aeration of wastewater.
	Mar 19, 2013 News Scottish Water Ltd. Turnberry environmental improvement A Scottish Water project which will help protect the natural environment on one of Scotland’s most iconic stretches of coastline has been completed. The £500,000 investment in the upgrade of a waste water pumping station at Turnberry, South Ayrshire is helping to protect the waters of the Firth of Clyde by reducing the risk of spills of waste water from the facility.
	Mar 20, 2013 News Jennifer Rittermeier Efficient sewage sludge treatment The international VDI conference "Sewage Sludge Treatment" on 18th and 19th June 2013 in Strasbourg, France covers how sewage sludge can be treated effectively and how energy and materials can be recovered for further use.
	Mar 22, 2013 News Susanne Tschenisch WASSER BERLIN INTERNATIONAL 2013: Global water industry meets at four-day event in Berlin From 23 to 26 April WASSER BERLIN INTERNATIONAL, one of the leading international trade fairs of the water industry, will be opening its doors in the German capital for the fifteenth time. Around 30,000 visitors representing business, science and politics are expected to attend and will be finding out about the latest technology and innovations, including many world firsts, from some 600 companies who are exhibiting in the display halls on an area of more than 40,000 square metres.
	Mar 21, 2013 News Sandy Howard $162 million proposed for priority clean water projects also creates jobs The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has selected 72 clean water projects to receive a share of approximately $162 million in loans and grants starting in the state’s next fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013.
	Mar 25, 2013 News Jennifer Jacob Xylem announces acquisition of MultiTrode Pty Ltd Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, announced that it has acquired MultiTrode Pty Ltd, a privately held Australia-based water and wastewater technology and services company, for approximately $26 million. The actual terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
	Mar 26, 2013 News Magatte Wade World Water Day – Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? We invest billions of dollars to find evidence of water and life on Mars, but here on Earth, we struggle to mobilize the funds needed to develop the full potential of the water resources we depend on for life and growth. Is the glass half full, or half empty?
	Mar 27, 2013 News Lena Zemke Close-Fit rehabilitation at Lake Attersee, Austria The Close-Fit method has existed for 20 years now as an alternative to other trenchless pipe rehabilitation technologies, such as CIPP or spiral-wound pipelining. With the pipe-in-pipe method, pressure pipes as well as gravity pipes of various diameters and lengths can be rehabilitated cost-efficiently and quickly, extending the service life of the pipes by at least 50 years.
	Apr 02, 2013 News Jessica Maier HOBAS Australia is the only pipe supplier Down Under to sell carbon-neutral pipes HOBAS Australia is actively minimizing the company’s carbon footprint by taking part in the NoCO2 Certification program of the Carbon Reduction Institute. Despite not being subject to the new carbon tax the government introduced for large CO2 emitters in July 2012, HOBAS thereby addresses its climate change action and the company’s declared aim, which has already become a widely acknowledged success: offering carbon-neutral HOBAS Pipes as a certified “Low Carbon”-Company.
	Apr 03, 2013 News Aaron Parker Honeywell to Reduce Energy Use and Costs For Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Honeywell announced an agreement to upgrade wastewater treatment plants for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), the largest water and wastewater utility in North America, serving more than 97 percent of Puerto Rico’s businesses and 3.7 million residents.
	Apr 04, 2013 News Shanghai ZM International Exhibition Co., Ltd Supporting program at IE expo 2013 dedicated to global networks IE expo 2013, which takes place from May 13 to 15 in Shanghai, has developed into the foremost environmental technology for China and Asia.
	Apr 05, 2013 News Jenny Hunter IBM Taps Big Data to Help Solve Water Challenges Across South Africa IBM announces the launch of a crowdsoucing project to help capture, share and analyze information about the water distribution system in South Africa. The project, called “WaterWatchers,” is driven by a new mobile phone application and SMS capability that will enable South African citizens to report water leaks, faulty water pipes and general conditions of water canals.
	Apr 08, 2013 News Rita Ann Wallace Children dying daily because of unsafe water supplies and poor sanitation and hygiene As the world celebrated World Water Day, UNICEF urges governments, civil society and ordinary citizens to remember that behind the statistics are the faces of children.
	Apr 09, 2013 News Günter Naujoks New TRACTO-TECHNIK products at BAUMA 2013 For the 16th time TRACTO-TECHNIK will present its complete trenchless technology range and the latest products at Bauma in Munich.