water municipality Articles
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Municipal water services in Guatemala: exploring official perceptions
In Guatemala, water services are frequently interrupted, water pressure is inadequate and tap water is often unsafe to drink. Water providers face the challenge of maintaining water systems and improving water services to provide reliable and safe drinking water. Understanding the perspectives of government officers may help in finding solutions to overcome this challenge. Semi-structured ...
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A basic guide to municipal water treatment & its specialized areas
Clean, safe, potable water is meagre today. Statistic says, presently around 1.2 billion people in this advancing world don’t have access to safe drinkable water. The scarcity of water stand stood as the most common yet perilous problem, the current society is facing these days. The scarceness of water already affects each and every continent of the world, and the problem is not a newer ...
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Tecta B16 Success Story - Malaysia - Case Study
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, a major provider of liquefied petroleum gas controls all the oil and gas recourses in Malaysia. They took the decision to build a large water treatment plant when the local municipal water company could no longer meet their ...
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How to use municipal water in a proper way
From last 100 year, numbers of water Technology Companies connected with municipal for waste disposal. Lots of people are used to throw their dirt into the sewage. Some waste material may melt, but not all are melted so because of this dirt objects the water of the sewage become polluted. Numbers of USA based companies which provide services to clean the waste material from the municipal. Using ...
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Free water for all the world's poor? A review of the strategy of South Africa's free basic water policy
In 2001 South Africa introduced a social policy to provide all citizens, but particularly the poor, with a monthly supply of limited volumes of free water. Although criticised by international agencies at the time, lifeline tariffs to the poor are now promoted as a strategy to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Much of free basic water's contemporary allure lies in its ostensible ...
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Water services sector reform: the Kosova experience
Governments of countries with emerging economies usually are not very successful in providing safe and sufficient potable water and adequate wastewater services to their citizens. The reasons vary from inadequate institutional structures to chronic under-investment in water infrastructure. To address this, governments embark on reforms based on commonly accepted principles of good governance ...
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The Low-Powered Ultrasonic dBi6 Transducer is the Ideal Solution for Silistra Municipality in Bulgaria
One of our valued partners in Bulgaria, Sigma Ltd were recently contacted about a project in the Silistra Province to provide instrumentation for infrastructure monitoring and a new rollout of an early warning program for floods and droughts. It was specified that the solution must provide operations functionality for locations without power supply from the grid, measured and forecasted water ...
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Managing uncertainty in the provision of safe drinking water
The Canadian Water Network, the Alberta Water Research Institute, and the Ontario Centres of Excellence have collaborated to create the Canadian Municipal Water Management Research Consortium, a new initiative to engage municipal water authorities and allow them to access research capacity to tackle mutually identified, critical issues. The challenge of managing uncertainty in the provision of ...
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Solutions for Brewery Wastewater Challenges
Throughout the Houston area and south Texas, small, independent craft breweries are becoming a booming part of the communities. These craft breweries are great for fellowship and the economy, but they can also be hard on the municipal wastewater treatment systems. At Aqua-Zyme, we offer a full dewatering system that is highly effective in solving the most common wastewater problems these small ...
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The WaterBank Project Indonesia - Case Study
The WaterBank Project is situated in the Terban district on the island of Java in Indonesia. A densely populated area, Terban lies approximately one kilometer from the central business district of the city of Yogyakarta. Most of the residents of Terban are economically disadvantaged with an average income of $5 per day. Clean water is a luxury few can afford in this area. The discolored ...
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Searcy Water Utilities Adopts Ultrasound Technology to Keep Its Facilities Cleaner
The application of ultrasound is keeping facilities cleaner longer, saving SWU time and money. One way to set up a municipal water utility is to treat water at the intake and then run it through open basins for conditioning and ultimately filtration. There’s a routine with keeping such installations clean. Biofilms tend to grow on basin walls, then peel off in sheets that gum up the filters ...
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Preparation and surface modification of hollow fibre membranes for drinking water disinfection and water reclamation
Polysulphone hollow fibres were spun according to phase inversion process under different conditions by extrusion of dimethylformamide solution of the polymer through double orifice spinneret using water or water-DMF mixture as gelation medium. The membrane surface was modified by in situ interfacial polymerisation of m-phenylenediamine with trimesoyl chloride. The nominal molecular weight ...
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Field trial of an automated batch chlorinator system at shared water points in an urban community of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Point-of-use water treatment with chlorine is underutilized in low-income households. The Zimba, an automated batch chlorinator, requires no electricity or moving parts, and can be installed at shared water points with intermittent flow. We conducted a small-scale trial to assess the acceptability and quality of Zimba-treated municipal water. Fieldworkers collected stored drinking water over ...
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How Has GWT Helped Industrial and Municipal Organization to Implement UV Light Disinfection To Treat Their Water Streams?
Whether its for municipalities, industries, or commercial facilities, water and wastewater treatment regulations are consistently changing, as new pollutants and contaminants are discovered and researched. For example, pathogenic microorganisms have been studied for their effects on human health, their points of origin and reach, and the ways they can be dealt with for well over a century. On top ...
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Are our Water Systems at Risk?
Assessing the Financial Sustainability of BC’s Municipal Water and Sewer Systems Reliable water, sewer, and storm water systems are essential to public health, a clean environment, and a strong economy. But British Columbia’s systems may be at risk – aging infrastructure, growth, strengthened regulations, seismic risk, and climate change are driving the need for significant ...
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Emergency water treatment solutions: municipalities & government agencies are you prepared
In this article, we will discuss recent natural disasters worldwide, their immediate effects on drinking water availability, and how to strategically deploy and use innovative portable and containerized electrocoagulation units for emergency water treatment to provide your citizens with clean water. Nature is a truly powerful force, one we could never hope to combat, only recover from. ...
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Virus contamination from operation and maintenance events in small drinking water distribution systems
We tested the association of common events in drinking water distribution systems with contamination of household tap water with human enteric viruses. Viruses were enumerated by qPCR in the tap water of 14 municipal systems that use non-disinfected groundwater. Ultraviolet disinfection was installed at all active wellheads to reduce virus contributions from groundwater to the distribution ...
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Systematic risk management approach of household drinking water from the source to point of use
The water safety plan (WSP) approach is being widely adopted as a systematic approach to improving the safety of drinking water. However, to date, the approach has not been widely used for improving the safety of drinking water in those settings where people have to collect water away from their home. Most rural areas in South Africa still consume unsafe water despite WSP implementation and ...
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The Long Island Lie: Emerging Contaminants Tainting Drinking Water and the Company with a Solution
When Grumman partnered with the U.S. Navy to establish a manufacturing, research and testing facility in Bethpage, N.Y. nobody would have anticipated the challenges that would plague the greater Long Island community some eighty-years later. Established on a sprawling 600-acre plot in the late 1930s, the facility aided in providing the United States military with means to defend the freedom of ...
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Providing clean water to impoverished homes
With high mortality rates from inadequate water sanitation in developing countries, the promise of inexpensive and effective water purification methods holds end¬less opportunities to improve public health and living standards. For more than a billion people forced to use con¬taminated water, diseases such as chol¬era, typhoid, chronic dysentery and rotavirus diarrhea are constant ...
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