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	Water & Wastewater Newsletter May 14, 2009

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New York to phase out bottled water for public sector
The Governor of New York has announced plans to ban the purchase of bottled water by state-owned agencies. he ban will cover both small bottles and those used by water coolers. State agencies will be expected to phase out their consumption of bottled water over the next six months. Governor David A Paterson said the move would save the state money as well as having obvious environmental benefits. The move will make New York the second state, after Illinois, to scrap the use of bottled water. Similar initiatives have already taken place north of the border in Canada. Bottled water will be replaced ...

Drinking water watched by Queensland’s seventh sense
CSIRO and a local water authority in Queensland, SEQWater, have joined forces to monitor the Lake Wivenhoe catchment, which spans an area about the size of the city of Brisbane, and supplies water to the region’s 1.5 million residents. Approximately 120 nodes, using CSIRO`s FLECK™ smart wireless sensor network technology, are monitoring environmental conditions on Lake Wivenhoe and in the surrounding catchment. CSIRO Senior Research Scientist, Dr Matthew Dunbabin said it is hoped that these sensors can provide the platform for the next generation of water quality monitoring systems. “This ...

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Second biggest killer of under-fives being ignored
The international health agenda is failing to save the lives of millions of children by not responding appropriately to causes of child deaths, according ...
London`s Olympic waterways to be opened up
An east London waterway is being dredged so construction materials can be transported to the Olympic site by barge. A 60 tonne boat has started dredging ...
Nanotechnology for clean water: Facts and figures
Nanotechnology could help give millions clean drinking water. David J. Grimshaw outlines the potential, the progress and some of the risks. Technology ...
How toxic are unregulated wastewater pollutants?
Spanish and Dutch researchers have evaluated the environmental impact of chemical pollutants in wastewater in Spain. The results suggest that the most ...
AWWA announces publication of water audit and loss control manual
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) announced this week the publication of the third edition of AWWA manual M36, Water Audits and Loss Control ...
Lake Lenexa project earns excellence award from United States Society of Dams
Black & Veatch and the city of Lenexa, Kan., announced this week that the Lake Lenexa Dam and Spillway has earned the U.S. Society of Dams (USSD) ...
LogDator gets under-water network logging capability
The first SediMeter with network logging capability this week left the Lindorm plant. The hardware is the same since the release in 2007, but by changing ...
ASU participates in international summit on global change
Finding ways to understand and effectively deal with the spectrum of environmental changes that are occurring – and will occur – around the world is one ...

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