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Aug 14, 2012
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Valero selects Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies for boiler feed water system at Gulf Coast refinery
Valero, with corporate headquarters in San Antonio, TX, has selected Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies to supply a complete boiler feed water system to its St. Charles refinery located in Norco, LA (USA). The treatment system will incorporate Veolia's patented ACTIFLO® Turbo clarification technology to treat water from the Mississippi River.
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Aug 13, 2012
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Optimisation of Sludge Dewatering in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants – KWB launches project Decamax
Sludge treatment and disposal still remain one of the key positions of operating costs in large municipal wastewater treatment plants. In particular, sludge dewatering through centrifuges has a major impact on the operation costs.
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Aug 10, 2012
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Flashes of Light at the End of the Tunnel
Excavation of a complex tunnel system for the XFEL European research facility in metropolitan area Hamburg was successfully completed in early June when the Herrenknecht AMELI tunnel boring machine entered its last target shaft. AMELI and its TBM sister TULA had to be relocated several times for the eleven tunnel sections between the research center DESY in Hamburg Bahrenfeld and Schenefeld in the district of Pinneberg. Exact laser technology provided by the Gesellschaft für Vermessungstechnik (VMT) kept the two TBMs perfectly on course over the route totaling 5.78 kilometers.
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Aug 09, 2012
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Global Water Technologies launches new effort to reduce water loss
Global Water Technologies is pleased to announce that its new partnership with Martinek Water Management GmbH, is moving forward with efforts to set up a pilot project in the United States to provide real-time monitoring of leak conditions and reduce loss in drinking water systems.
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Aug 08, 2012
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CARISMO – Using the Chemical Energy of Wastewater
The organic matter contained in wastewater represents a largely unused renewable source of energy of approx. 0.8 kWh/m3. Instead, energy is expended in wastewater treatment on the biological degradation of these substances.
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Aug 07, 2012
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Innovyze Releases Next Generation InfoWater VCM, the Ultimate Solution for Infrastructure Criticality and Vulnerability Assessment
In its ongoing quest to equip the global drinking water industry with the world’s most comprehensive and innovative GIS-centric smart water network modeling and management solutions, Innovyze announced significant new enhancements to its InfoWater VCM (Valve Criticality Modeling) software.
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Aug 06, 2012
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Pentair Foundation Announces $1 Million Grant to Water Missions International to Fund Safe Drinking Water Projects Worldwide
More than one billion people worldwide – roughly one out of every seven – have no choice but to use unsafe, contaminated water. To help solve this issue, Pentair, Inc., a leader in sustainable water solutions, and its Foundation announced today a new five-year grant totaling $1 million to the non-profit Water Missions International (WMI). The multi-year grant will fund the implementation of clean water and sanitation projects in developing countries, further building on the work of Pentair's Project Safewater initiative with WMI.
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Aug 02, 2012
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SPR Europe`s UNILINER™ for sewer pipe rehabilitation: Pipe lining nightshift in the city of Brussels
In sewer rehabilitation projects, the available time window for rehabilitation is often the deciding factor for which method or service provider is chosen. This is demonstrated by a spectacular project, which was carried out by the Belgium branch of KMG Pipe Technologies (KMG PT), the construction company of SPR (SEKISUI Pipe Rehabilitation) Europe, in Brussels in January 2012.
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Aug 01, 2012
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EBRD helps Turkish municipality improve water services
The EBRD is continuing to support the modernisation of water and wastewater infrastructure in Turkey with a loan of up to €20 million to finance the construction of Mezitli wastewater treatment plant in Mersin, a Mediterranean port city located in the south of Turkey, with a population of close to one million people.
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Jul 31, 2012
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ThermoEnergy Corporation Signs Deal to Deploy Mobile Frack Water Production System
ThermoEnergy Corp., a diversified technologies company engaged in the development and sales of wastewater recovery and power generation technologies, has announced the signing of a contract to deliver ThermoEnergy's first commercial frack water production system to an oil and gas services company.
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Jul 30, 2012
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Russian Water Supplier Wins an Award for Creative Use of Social Media
SUE Vodokanal of St Petersburg wins the EFQM Award for creative use of social media. With their platform da-voda.com they make water supplying, often considered for granted, a more appealing and important business to youngsters. Moreover, they create awareness for the environmental impact of extensive water consumption. In addition, Virgin Media and Comarca Bilbao, are awarded "highly commended" projects.
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Jul 27, 2012
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Grand Gala for an All-Round Success Story
The 35-year company anniversary and his own milestone birthday gave Herrenknecht AG Chairman of the Board of Management Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht a good reason to celebrate in style. More than 2,000 guests from politics, the customers, the tunnel industry and his company's workforce joined him to enjoy a high class evening gala in the Baden-Arena in Offenburg.
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Jul 26, 2012
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New Book Tells the Complexity of Building a Massive Canal System
Richard Lanyon writes about an innovative public works engineering effort to save Chicago from a perilous nuisance and public health crisis.
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Jul 25, 2012
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COSMA – Quantifying the Risks from Subsurface Activities from the Perspective of Groundwater Protection
In consequence of the search for new energy sources and the development of climate protection strategies, novel technologies are increasingly being used which can have a direct impact on local and regional geological soil formations and with it also on the quality and composition of groundwater.
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Jul 24, 2012
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Inland Pipe Rehabilitation Announces New CIPP Solution For Trenchless Renewal Of Drinking Water Lines
Inland Pipe Rehabilitation (IPR) announced that it is now in a position to immediately begin rehabilitating drinking water pipes with its licensed cured-in place pipe (CIPP) system, RS BlueLine®.
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Jul 23, 2012
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IBM, Notre Dame, Emnet Help South Bend, Indiana Protect Public Health, Reduce Pollution with Smarter Cities Cloud Analytics
IBM announced that South Bend, Indiana is using its Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) for Smarter Cities software-as-a-service (SaaS), to dramatically overhaul its water management system, preserving public health and saving the city hundreds of millions of dollars. South Bend is the first city in the world to manage its water systems in the cloud.
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Jul 20, 2012
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More than 3,500 indigenous and rural households in Panama will receive water and sanitation services
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a grant for $7.5 million from the Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean to provide drinking water and sanitation services to more than 3,500 rural and indigenous households in Panama.
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Jul 19, 2012
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Abtech Begins Department of Defense Installations
Abtech Holdings, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of patented innovative environmental technologies addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, announced that it has completed stormwater treatment installations at two military bases located in Utah and California, with additional installations under development.
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Jul 17, 2012
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Saipem awarded new E&C onshore contract worth $350 million
Saipem won a new onshore E&C contract worth approximately $350 million in Saudi Arabia.
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Jul 16, 2012
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PUB Singapore and MEIDEN SINGAPORE collaborate on first Ceramic Membrane MBR Demonstration Plant to treat and recycle industrial used water
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency and MEIDEN SINGAPORE (MSL) announced the signing of an agreement to establish the first Ceramic Membrane MBR Demonstration Plant in Singapore to treat and recycle industrial used water in a more energy-efficient and cost-effective manner.
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Jul 13, 2012
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Aker Wirth's new tunnel boring system embarks on a journey – Innovation for underground mining and tunneling
Together with Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, Aker Wirth developed a new, innovative tunnel boring system within Rio Tinto's "Mine of the Future" programme.
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Jul 12, 2012
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Xylem Announces Partnership with Visenti at Singapore International Water Week
Xylem Inc. and Visenti Pte LTD announced a new partnership at Singapore International Water Week. Xylem and Visenti will form a joint partnership to develop the smart optimization of water networks by utilizing energy-efficient technology and smart sensing platforms. These technologies will reduce energy consumption, maximize water quality and ensure optimal network conditions around Singapore’s water infrastructure.
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Jul 11, 2012
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Chooses CapPlan Water for Smart Capital Planning
Innovyze announced that the City of Corpus Christi Water Department in Texas has chosen Innovyze industry-leading CapPlan Water software to help manage the capital planning process for rehabilitation of its underground distribution infrastructure. The decision helps the utility leverage its investment in ArcGIS technology from Esri (Redlands, CA) by enhancing it with the most technologically advanced GIS-centric software platform available for water distribution capital planning.
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Jul 10, 2012
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Borealis and Borouge introduce family of tailored irrigation solutions – Borstar® Aquility™
Borealis and Borouge, leading providers of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, have unveiled Borstar® Aquility™. Borstar Aquility comprises a new family of products intended for drip irrigation applications.
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Jul 09, 2012
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EBRD finances first ever major project in the Crimea
The EBRD is providing a loan of up to €10 million to improve the water supply and the quality of water and wastewater facilities in the Greater Yalta region of Ukraine.
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