surface water News

The largest drinking water purification plant in Europe to feature GE’s (NYSE: GE) ZeeWeed* 500 advanced water treatment technology is under construction in Ravenna, Italy. Located on the east coast of Italy, close to the Adriatic Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea, this popular tourist destination needed a way to ensure increased water ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Pennsylvania's 2012 Integrated Waters Report, the Department of Environmental Protection announced today. Required every two years by the federal Clean Water Act, the report describes the water quality of the state's many creeks, streams, rivers and waterways. "Our experts put together this ...

 The worlds foremost experts on storm- and surface-water quality will get together in Myrtle Beach August 18–22 to explore the newest water pollution prevention and mitigation technologies, share their recent experiences, and discuss which strategies are most effective in minimizing surface water pollution.   With NPDES ...

WaterAid, a leading international non-profit dedicated to making clean water and toilets accessible for the world’s poorest people, announced today that it is joining forces with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to make safe drinking water a reality for people living in one of the poorest suburbs of Burkina Faso’s capital city, Ouagadougou, and in ...

 Last week it was announced that the recently released 2013-15 House and Senate Capital Budgets include approximately $32 million in capital funding (from the Columbia River Water Supply Development Account) to help the Odessa Aquifer. The $32 million included in the capital budgets is a result of efforts by key legislators (such as Rep. Judy ...

Water industry professionals from Pennsylvania American Water will lead sessions on a number of critical industry topics at the 65th Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association. The annual conference, set for April 23-25 in Hershey, brings together both investor-owned and municipal water system officials, ...

A team of geoscientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using newly available remote-sensing technology has achieved unprecedented detail in quantifying subtle, long-period changes in the water levels of shallow lakes and ponds in hard-to-reach Arctic wetlands. Analysis comparing time-lapsed, high-resolution satellite imagery of the ...

Researchers have discovered high levels of plastic particles and fibres, as well as black carbon (BC), which is formed by the incomplete burning of fossil fuels, in the waters of the Jade Bay, an inshore basin off the coast of Germany in the Southern North Sea. The concentration of suspended particles are of concern because they have the potential ...

AppliTek launches the AppliBOD, an on-line BOD analyzer designed to work without activated sludge. The analyzers' main applications are effluent monitoring and surface water monitoring. More info ...