News and Articles
Sep 09, 2011
News
Spain grants $25 million to Honduras for rural water and sanitation
Project backed by the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sep 08, 2011
News
United Water opens national command center
United Water has opened a national command center in Boise, Idaho, to coordinate the company’s response to Hurricane Irene. United Water owns or operates water and wastewater utilities located on the East coast ranging from Georgia to New Hampshire.
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Sep 07, 2011
News
Ditch Witch All Terrain Air Hammer Helps Conquer Hardest Rock
The Ditch Witch® organization announces the release of the All Terrain Air Hammer, which is designed to work with All Terrain directional drills to penetrate the hardest rock.
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Sep 06, 2011
News
Sewage treatment
Water purification unit generates its own energy
A new biological water purification facility developed by Siemens generates enough methane gas to power its own operations. It also produces much less sludge than conventional systems. The pilot facility for this process, which is located at a site run by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board, has been operating in an energy- neutral manner since June 2010. Now, the city state is building a much larger pilot facility – one that will process 300 times more effluent than its predecessor, or about as much sewage water as is produced by around 1,000 people.
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Sep 02, 2011
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Robbins Slurry TBM will delve below Zhanjiang Bay
Soft Ground Machine ramping up for Launch at Chinese Water Tunnel
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Sep 01, 2011
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ST Electronics Wins Intelligent Water Management System Project From PUB
ST Electronics has been awarded a contract by the Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore’s national water agency, to provide consultancy services, and to develop and implement parts of an Intelligent Water Management System (IWMS). The company has embarked on the project which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2012.
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Aug 31, 2011
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Investing in Basic Improvements in Sanitation Yield Major Economic Gains for East Asia’s Poor Households
The Water and Sanitation Program, a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank released a series of reports pointing out that households that invest in basic sanitation have a better quality of life and could increase up to seven fold the return on investment in economic benefits.
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Aug 29, 2011
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TaKaDu Enters Latin America with First Water Infrastructure Monitoring Deployment at Aguas de Antofagasta
TaKaDu, a Water Infrastructure Monitoring pioneer, announced its first commercial deployment in the Latin American market, at Aguas de Antofagasta, Chile.
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Aug 26, 2011
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KISSS America’s Water Efficient Product Is "Smart" For Smart Irrigation Month
Starting with an efficient irrigation system designed to alleviate some of the problems associated with water waste is one of the messages behind the Irrigation Association’s Smart Irrigation Month in July and a reason why KISSS America’s revolutionary and water-efficient subsurface capillary irrigation products are the smart choice for landscape irrigation.
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Aug 25, 2011
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Testing Starts On New Aviemore Waterworks
Testing of equipment has begun on Scottish Water’s new £24million treatment works that will supply clearer, fresher drinking water to over 10,000 people in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park.
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Aug 24, 2011
Article
Construction site, general
Always a Winner with HOBAS CC-GRP - Microtunneling HOBAS Jacking Pipes for a Combined Sewage Collector in France
Only shortly after receiving the renowned international No-Dig Award from the ISTT (International Society for Trenchless Technology) at the No-Dig fair in Berlin for the best project 2010, HOBAS has come up trumps at the VST (Ville Sans Tranchée), No-Dig trade fair, in France for supplying pipes for the best construction site 2010. The project awarded by the FSTT (French Society for Trenchless Technology) comprised 1340 m of De (external diameter) 1940 mm pipes installed by microtunneling for a combined sewage collector with a total capacity of 3300 m³ and was implemented by the city Rennes in France.
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Aug 23, 2011
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Water is a Limited Commodity That Must be Managed Sustainably & Strategically
The International Energy Agency predicts oil and gas will meet the majority of the worlds energy demand for the foreseeable future raising the spot light on the role water plays in oil and gas production. Oil and gas companies looking to achieve sustainable growth will increasingly have to manage their water footprint, as well as their carbon footprint. Never has there been the need for collaboration between these sectors in order to secure the future of world energy demands.
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Aug 19, 2011
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Renewed momentum for tackling water scarcity and conflict in Darfur
Political commitment, donor interest and increased awareness of the need to manage Darfur's scarce water resources sustainably were among the key outcomes of a two-day international conference organized by the Sudanese Government and its international partners in Khartoum.
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Aug 17, 2011
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Geosyntec Signs Strategic Teaming Agreement for Green Infrastructure Platform
Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced it has executed a strategic teaming agreement with ioBridge, Inc. of Marlborough, Mass., to develop and deploy "smart" technologies for the management of urban stormwater infrastructure.
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Aug 16, 2011
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Aqua America and American Water Exchange Subsidiaries
Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) announced an agreement with American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) to purchase all of American Water’s regulated operations in Ohio and to simultaneously sell Aqua’s regulated operations in New York to American Water. Both companies are now the largest investor-owned water utilities in each of the two respective states.
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Aug 12, 2011
News
Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor
Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks.
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Aug 10, 2011
News
ADB's $200 Million Loans to Improve Clean Water Supply in Smaller PRC Cities
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $200 million in dual-currency loans to the China Water Affairs Group Limited (CWA) to improve the delivery of treated water to households and businesses in fast-growing small- and medium-sized cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Aug 09, 2011
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EPA Releases New Report on Sewage Pollution in New York and New Jersey
When it rains, did you ever think about where all that rainwater is going? It flows down storm drains, carrying pollution from the streets, and if it is a heavy rain, causes sewage to overflow into rivers, lakes and streams.
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Aug 08, 2011
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UN Secretary-General launches the “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, Ugandan Minister of Water & Environment the Hon. Maria Mutagamba, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, launched on 21 June 2011 the “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015”, a push to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal target of improving global sanitation by 2015. WSSCC is playing a key role in developing the advocacy strategy and materials and will work collaboratively with other partners supporting the initiative.
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Aug 05, 2011
News
Silent Night Lining
A GRUNDOBURST 400S was recently used as a pulling device to slipline a 21” cast iron water pipe for a new replacement 450mm SDR17 PE pipe. The relative compact size (L 600mm x W 490mm x D 340mm) and light weight of the 400S (200kg) is deceptively small in comparison to the 40 tonne pulling power developed and is ideal for confined space working as well as reducing logistical and jobsite set up costs.
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Aug 04, 2011
News
Construction site, general
QBC Achieves 2,500,000 Man Hours without Loss Time Incidents (LTI) at North Sewerage Treatment Pumping Station & Pipeline
Qatar Building Company (QBC) receives official certification for achieving over 2.5 million Man Hours without Loss Time Incidents (LTI) for Doha North Sewerage Treatment & Associated Works TSE3 Pumping Station and Mains.
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Aug 03, 2011
News
New CFO for Thames Water
Stuart Siddall is to join Thames Water as chief finance officer (CFO).
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Aug 02, 2011
News
LG Electronics and Hitachi to Form Joint Venture in Water Business
LG Electronics Inc., and Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd. have agreed to establish a joint venture in the water business. LGE, Hitachi Ltd., and Hitachi Plant Technologies will combine LGE's strength in marketing, planning and manufacturing technology with the Hitachi Group's technological and engineering strengths in water treatment systems and information control systems, to expand in the water business.
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Aug 01, 2011
News
Vermeer offers horizontal directional drilling air hammer product line
Forms alliance agreement with Pioneer One to offer Prospector system through dealer network
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Jul 28, 2011
News
£2 million "water cathedral" takes shape
A new underground cathedral is taking shape among the valleys of a picturesque part of Surrey.
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