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The CCES Blog often contains tips to reduce your energy usage and therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as cost effectively as possible. Here’s another such tip. Take a hard look at your mechanical equipment, mainly pumps. If they ...

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In the current economic climate business owners should be welcoming methods to cut business energy costs with open arms. One way to cut costs is through efficiency. In recent years popular awareness of energy waste and efficiency issues ...

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Water is an increasingly scarce resource for much of the World's population. Global warming, an increasing world population and generally increasing incomes mean the demand for water is likely to rise further. If current trends continue, ...

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PCBs were used as coolants and dielectric fluid in transformers, as flame retardants, hydraulic fluids and additives in plastics and for many other applications until the 1980s. They are toxic, persistent and bioaccumulate in terrestial ...

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During the winter months, when homes and businesses typically have their windows and doors closed, can result in an increase in indoor air quality (IAQ) complaints.  In addition to a lack of fresh air in many buildings during this ...

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Flood risk management is a top priority, exacerbated by the perception that flood risk has increased during the last two decades in many regions. There are two hypotheses for such changing patterns: Changes in climate, e.g. ...

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1. Overview The Ikotoilet is an innovative solution to the growing environmental sanitation problem in Africa. It is based on an enterprise model by a company named Ecotact, which includes both sanitation facilities in urban and low ...

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1. Overview The Alandur Sewerage Project is a unique case of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in the urban sanitation sector. As the first project in the municipal sanitation sector to take the PPP route in India, this example ...

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