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Nov 15, 2013
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UN News Centre
The United Nations appealed for nearly a third of a billion dollars to provide humanitarian assistance to typhoon hit regions of the Philippines where aid workers are labouring around the clock to get in urgently needed survival supplies, such as food, clean water, shelter and basic medicines.
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Nov 18, 2013
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Kent Page
International donors, aid agencies and Philippines government get life-saving clean water back on tap.
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Nov 19, 2013
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Steve Tan
The plastic pipe industry has long claimed that bi-oriented PVC-O pipe systems offer the most efficient and sustainable delivery of water. Developed over forty years ago, these high pressure pipes are used increasingly as a replacement for ductile iron pipes.
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Nov 21, 2013
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Rebecca Osborn
Leading water technology company leverages established partnerships with NGOs to rapidly deploy funds and technology to provide clean water, hygiene kits to affected areas.
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Nov 20, 2013
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Adam J. Simonsen
EPAMA to Implement Innovyze Advanced Smart Water Solutions for Meuse River Catchment
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Nov 22, 2013
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Sharelynn Moore
Smart grid network delivers multiple communications options with true interoperability to support smart grid applications globally
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Nov 25, 2013
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Molly Bragg
The company's PVG valve offers exceptional fluid control performance for industrial pipelines for Oil & Gas, Mining, Minerals and Metallurgy and Waste Water Treatment.
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Nov 26, 2013
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John Deaver
The system provides superior contaminant removal far below conventional treatment levels and permits smaller clarifier and plant footprint to reduce capital and life-cycle costs - ideal for expansion of existing or new facilities.
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Nov 27, 2013
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Sacyr Construcción, S.A.U.
Sacyr Construcción heads a consortium that has been awarded the contract to carry out improvement works on the supply and integral treatment of the water network in the city of Cerro de Pasco (Peru) for a sum of 41 million euros.
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Nov 27, 2013
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African Development Bank Group
November 14 marked a milestone in the history of Zaria, Kaduna State, with the launch of its $480 million Water Supply, Expansion and Sanitation Project. The start-up was launched at the site of the newly built water treatment plant in a ceremony with the Governor of Kaduna State; the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris; Ajisegiri Benson, representative of the Minister for Water Resources; and the Country Director of the African Development Bank as guests of honour.
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Nov 28, 2013
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The World Bank
This IDA grant co-financed the construction of safe drinking water systems that serves more than 50,000 people and school latrines for more than 7,000 students and teachers in rural Haiti. It also helped establish professional operators and water and sanitation committees in nine communes and provided hands on training to the operators and committees in community mobilization, conflict resolution, billing and accounting, meter reading and repairing, chlorination as well as plumbing.
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Nov 29, 2013
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N.U.B. Engineering Limited
3. Infra Oman: Powerful solutions for expansion of national infrastructure
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Dec 02, 2013
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TRACTO-TECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG
TT-UK of Bedford has recently supplied SSE with 27 Cable Drum Trailers; featuring a range of new innovative and bespoke specifications for ease of use and safer operation. The new BKT15 Cable Drum Trailers are the direct result of a joint collaboration between TT-UK and SSE since their first discussions back in 2011.
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Dec 03, 2013
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Sally Shute-Trembath
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will join the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Australia and New Zealand governments, World Bank Group, European Commission, and European Investment Bank in supporting the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF), which aims to improve infrastructure and services in the Pacific region.
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Dec 04, 2013
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Axel Reiserer
The EBRD is extending a €35 million loan to the Bulgarian Fund for Local Authorities and Governments JSC (FLAG) to expand the fund’s lending to Bulgarian municipalities for co-financing of EU post accession grants. The transaction is an extension of an existing €35 million credit line of which 60 per cent will be syndicated while the EBRD will retain an additional €14 million for its own account.
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Dec 05, 2013
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David Mason
Rabbi/social entrepreneur David Mason and Rabbi/activist Micha Odenheimer have joined forces in Nepal to build much needed toilets for rural villagers. Mason's website CabinetHardware.org helps Odenheimer’s Israel-based Nonprofit organization Tevel b'Tzedek fund a toilet building project to improve health and sanitation for the Nepal’s poorest citizens.
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Dec 06, 2013
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Sarah Sharpe
Thames Water announced plans based on customers’ priorities to deliver £5.1bn of investment in improvements to Britain’s oldest treatment works, pipes and sewers between 2014 and 2020.
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Dec 09, 2013
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Trimble Navigation Limited
The latest release of the cloud-based software Trimble® Connect™ (version 1.5) includes a suite of applications that help water and wastewater utilities to deploy smart meters, repair leaks and reduce non-revenue water (NRW), locate and map critical infrastructure using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, extend the life of aging assets, and improve worker safety and productivity.
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Dec 10, 2013
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United States Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced funding for projects in 40 states to finance investments in improved water and wastewater systems for more than 200,000 rural residents.
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Dec 11, 2013
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Silvia Dangond
Bolivia will improve and broaden access to drinking water and sewage systems through a $60 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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Dec 12, 2013
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Achim Kühn
A smooth success right from the beginning: For the first time, a Canadian construction company has installed a pipeline using the Direct Pipe® technology from Herrenknecht. Crossing beneath the Beaver River in the province of Alberta with a 42 inch pipeline (1,067mm) was successfully completed in two weeks.
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Dec 13, 2013
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Bill Mackey
Australia should embrace the concept of recycled drinking water, recognising its benefits include reduced energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, lower capital and operational costs and a more robust, climate-independent water supply.
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Dec 16, 2013
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Oseloka Zikora
The African Water Facility (AWF) has offered the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) a € 2 million grant to establish a monitoring and reporting system for the water sector in Africa.
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Dec 17, 2013
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Annemarie Roodbol
It is essential that both public and private sectors get a strong understanding of their asset management maturity and develop a robust maintenance road map, says Anton Booyzen, chairman of the Southern African Asset Management Association (SAAMA).
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Dec 18, 2013
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Desiree Willis
Deep Hard Rock Tunneling in India achieves a New High
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