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29.01.2013
News
Signing of Japanese ODA Loan Agreement with the Republic of Peru
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Japanese ODA loan agreements with the Government of the Republic of Peru in the capital of Lima to provide Japanese ODA loans of up to 5.078 billion yen for assistance for the North Lima Metropolitan Area Water Supply and Sewerage Optimization Project (II) and of up to 2.905 billion yen for assistance for the Amazonas Rural Development Project.
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28.01.2013
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Major Facelift in Mumias underway
The perennial water problems in Mumias Municipality and the adjoining rural surroundings are set to be a thing of the past as the Board embarks on a major infrastructural facelift of the water and sanitation infrastructure to overhaul the area’s existing water supply system.
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24.01.2013
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Aegion Corporation Receives $12.9 Million Fibrwrap® Pipe Rehabilitation Contract Relating to the Government of Hong Kong Water Supplies Department
Aegion Corporation announced today that its subsidiary, Fyfe Hong Kong Limited, has received a three-year contract valued at $12.9 million (USD) for the rehabilitation of potable steel water pipelines, ranging from 47-inches to 94-inches in diameter, located in the New Territories of Hong Kong for the Government of Hong Kong Water Supplies Department.
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23.01.2013
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Construction site, general
The secret of nanoparticle packing in cement
Cement production is responsible for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions. If we are to invent a "green" cement, we need to understand in more detail the legendary qualities of traditional Portland cement. A research group partly financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is tackling this task.
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22.01.2013
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First Peace-Building Water Project in Darfur
Over 750,000 people from three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility (AWF) grant. The project was recently launched during two separate ceremonies held in November in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and in El Fasher, North Darfur State capital.
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21.01.2013
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Vallourec awards Veolia Water the contract to audit the water footprint of its biggest production facilities
To assess and compare the water footprint of seven of its biggest production plants worldwide, Vallourec has turned to Veolia Water’s new measurement and decision-making assistance tool: the Water Impact Index (WIIX).
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18.01.2013
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VINCI wins two water engineering contracts in Jamaica
VINCI Construction Grands Projets is to carry out two projects for the Jamaican National Water Commission to improve the country’s water supply network for a total sum of €60 million.
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17.01.2013
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About 220,000 Uzbek Citizens to Benefit from Improved Water Supply
Almost 220,000 people in Uzbekistan will benefit from a US$82 million IDA Credit, approved by the World Bank’s Board of Directors. The Alat and Karakul Water Supply Project will improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of public water supply service in the districts of Alat and Karakul in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan.
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16.01.2013
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Tri-Tech Holding Wins Multiple Contracts in Water and Water Resources Management
Tri-Tech Holding Inc., which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced that it has secured several contracts for wastewater treatment, high-rising building water supply equipment procurement and flash flood forecasting projects. The aggregate value of all contracts is approximately $3.2 million (approximately RMB 20.15 million).
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15.01.2013
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Urgent action needed to improve water and sanitation for displaced in Myanmar’s Rakhine State despite some progress
Tens of thousands of people displaced by conflict in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state and living in temporary camps have inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene conditions and limited access to safe water, increasing health risks to people in and near the sites.
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14.01.2013
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Gulf Waste Water Summit 2013 Announces New Dates
The GCC water industry's most anticipated summit – Fleming Gulf's 3rd Annual Gulf Waste Water Summit, which was scheduled to take place in March 2013 is now poised to take place on 2nd & 3rd April 2013 at Shangri-La Hotel - Dubai.
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10.01.2013
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Construction site, general » Devices
Techni-Métal Systems a New Herrenknecht Subsidiary
In December 2012, Herrenknecht AG took over the French manufacturer of tunnel supply vehicles, the company Techni-Métal Systemes SAS (TMS) in Livron. By acquiring TMS, Herrenknecht is expanding its full-range portfolio which comprises all technical equipment and services around innovative tunnel boring machines.
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09.01.2013
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Global Water Technologies plans pilot "smart water grid" project with people + pipes + policy
Global Water Technologies is planning to launch a pilot “smart water grid” that demonstrates the importance of addressing sustainable infrastructure through a comprehensive approach that shows benefits to people, pipes and policy.
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08.01.2013
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Wastewater system upgrade to improve life in Croatian tourist resort of Šibenik
The EBRD is supporting the modernisation of municipal infrastructure in the Croatian town of Šibenik with a €10 million loan to co-finance the upgrade of its wastewater infrastructure.
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07.01.2013
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Dominican Republic to improve access to drinking water for 329,000 people with IDB support
The Dominican Republic will improve water services for 329,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Santiago de los Caballeros with a $25 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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04.01.2013
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Inspection » TV-Inspection
New RedLine Laser Profiling Accessory for ROVVER X Reduces Cost, Effort of Scanning Pipe Geometry
Attaching in seconds to the ROVVER X inspection crawler, the new RedLine™ laser accessory is all you need to geometrically profile the inside of buried pipelines. Captured profile data is readily analyzed to verify proper pipe installation, plan relining projects, determine remaining pipe life, monitor erosion/corrosion, quantify defects, and analyze partial collapses.
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04.01.2013
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Inspection » TV-Inspection
Fiberscope.net Introduces a New Pipe Inspection Camera to its Range of Portable Optic Devices
With a Convenient Portable Design and High Resolution Video, the iSnake Push Camera from Fiberscope.Net takes Portable Field Inspections to the Next Level.
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03.01.2013
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Launch of the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project in Oyo and Taraba States
The Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai and the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Chief Moses Alake Adeyemo launched the Urban Water and Sanitation Improvement Project – with an African Development Bank loan of approximately US $100 million for the rehabilitation, expansion and construction of water and sanitation facilities in Jalingo, Taraba State, and Ibadan, a city located in Oyo State, Nigeria. The project will improve access to clean water and sanitation for an estimated 1.5 million people.
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02.01.2013
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New drinking water system for La Paz, Bolivia
Royal HaskoningDHV and water operator Vitens Evides International (VEI) are advising the Bolivian water company EPSAS on the development of the Chuquiaguillo drinking water project. The project will supply drinking water to approximately 125,000 inhabitants of the Bolivian capital La Paz. It will be the first time that some of them have been connected to the city's drinking water mains.
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27.12.2012
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TigerNET - Earth Observation for the management of water resources in Africa
TIGER-NET is a EUR1.5m project of the European Space Agency (ESA), designed to increase African participation in the rapidly evolving global Earth Observation (EO) system. The project hopes to make a significant contribution to integrated water resources management in Africa. A consortium led by GeoVille and GRAS, a DHI subsidiary company, has been selected to carry out the project.
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19.12.2012
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Sewage treatment
A Sewage Treatment Plant Goes Underground
The town of Villalba de los Barros in Spain is innovating wastewater treatment using using bacterial injections in its sewer system. This process employs the sewer pipes underground to do work prior to the wastewater treatment plant resulting in significant benefits to the town, environment and treatment plant.
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18.12.2012
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Trenchless installation of pipelines
Mechanized Tunneling and Microtunneling Short Course – A Great Success
TSITT (Turkish Society for Infrastructure and Trenchless Technology) held the MECHANIZED TUNNELING AND MICROTUNNELING SHORT COURSE in Sanliurfa Hilton Hotel TR in October 2012 with the valuable support of TTS (Turkish Tunneling Society) and ISTT. Many local and international participants attended this unique mechanized tunneling and microtunneling short course of Turkey.
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18.12.2012
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PII Pipeline Solutions and Alliance Pipeline Partner to Support Engineers of Tomorrow
With an eye toward developing the oil and gas industry’s engineers of tomorrow, PII Pipeline Solutions, a GE Oil & Gas and Al Shaheen joint venture, and Canadian gas pipeline operator Alliance Pipeline, jointly sponsored the engineering student paper competition at the 2012 International Pipeline Conference (IPC) in Calgary. The winning author and runner-up were announced after the competition’s eight finalists presented their papers during the IPC’s closing day on September 28.
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17.12.2012
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Replacement by trenchless method » Pipe bursting, in general
TRIC Trenchless Renews Kellogg's Eggo plant Underground Infrastructure
TRIC Tools, Inc., a Northern California based Pipe Bursting technology company, joined with Therma Corp., a San Jose based mechanical contracting firm, to upgrade underground utility lines at Kellogg's Eggo manufacturing plant in San Jose, CA.
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17.12.2012
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Tunneling and gallery techniques
Herrenknecht supplies first TBM for Metro construction in Rio de Janeiro.
Herrenknecht AG is supplying a tunnel boring machine with a diameter of 11.46 meters for the construction of the new metro line 4 in Rio de Janeiro. It will contribute to relieving the traffic routes in the metropolitan area. At the company’s headquarters in southern German Schwanau the first tunnel boring machine to be used in Rio de Janeiro was accepted by the customer in late September 2012.
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