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	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.
	Apr 10, 2013 News Desiree Willis Robbins Slurry TBM emerges from below Zhanjiang Bay After advancing up to 392 m (1,290 ft) per month, Robbins’ speedy Slurry TBM made a photo finish in China’s southernmost city. The 6.26 m (20.5 ft) diameter machine broke through at the end of 2012, and the pipeline is slated to become operational in March 2013. The Zhanjiang Bay Sub-Sea Tunnel runs 56 m (185 ft) below water level, and will provide fresh water to the Guangdong Steel Plant via twin pipelines.
	Apr 12, 2013 News Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) Glimmer of hope for elimination of open air defecation in Madagascar The statistics are chilling: 53% of Madagascar’s 20.7 million people defecate openly every day while another 33% use dilapidated, unsafe toilets. The under-5 mortality rate of is one of the highest in the world, at 72 deaths per 1,000 children.
	Apr 11, 2013 News David F. Morris Aegion Awarded Three Cured-in-Place Pipe Contracts from Queensland Urban Utilities Aegion Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Insituform Pacific Pty. Limited, has been awarded three separate contracts with a combined value of $8.9 million (USD) from Queensland Urban Utilities.
	Apr 15, 2013 News Carmiña Moreno Water in Peru’s Desert Capital The capital city of Lima is located in the valleys of three rivers on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean in central Peru. It is mild and warm throughout the year and noteworthy for being one of the driest capitals in the world. It just doesn’t rain much in Lima, yet its growing population of nearly 9 million people, many of them impoverished, needs water.
	Apr 16, 2013 News Keba Ba At the AfDB, Water and Sanitation is a Gender Issue The issue of water and sanitation is of utmost importance given the place of women in African society. It illustrates how African women suffer from inequality, particularly when it comes to access to education.
	Apr 17, 2013 News Justin Bzdek Symbios Technologies Wins NSF Phase II Technology Award for Innovative Water Treatment Technology Symbios Technologies LLC has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. This prestigious two-year grant was awarded to advance and commercialize Symbios’ Tubular Plasma Reactor™ for water treatment and improving the economic and environmental impact of domestic oil and gas extraction.
	Apr 18, 2013 News Sabine Neubrand-Trylat The new reliable, two-stage DuoLine rotary vane pumps Pfeiffer Vacuum presents the new two-stage DuoLine rotary vane pumps. The compact vacuum pumps are distinguished by a newly developed pump system and optimized cooling. These changes have a significant impact on the service lives of the pumps. The long maintenance intervals, the energy-efficient motors and the optional oil return lower the operating costs to a very low level.
	Apr 18, 2013 News Achim Kühn Herrenknecht Pipe Express receives bauma Innovation Award "Pipe Express® has significantly less impact on the environment compared to the conventional open-cut construction method, while simultaneously minimizing costs," said VDMA President Thomas Lindner in his speech at the presentation of the bauma Innovation Award 2013 in the machine category. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Martin Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management of Herrenknecht AG, accepted the award during the presentation ceremony in April.