Water Toxicity Monitoring News
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The best time to plan for drought is when it’s raining
The State of Global Water Resources Report 2022 says the hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance. The world’s weather has gone wild. Cold snaps, heat waves, dry spells, floods, and drought, all at one time exceptional occurrences, are now the norm. The planet is fluctuating between extremes as anomalies in weather conditions push the climate out of its groove. Natural disasters are ...
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Room Alert and CCOHS: Protecting Canadian Workers & Workplaces
Though we talk a lot about workplace safety within the U.S. and OSHA guidelines, ensuring the health and safety of employees is paramount for businesses, facilities, and organizations in many other countries as well. For example in Canada, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) stands as a beacon of guidance and support in this endeavor. Established to promote the ...
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Communities Must get Prepared for Increased Flooding due to Climate Change, Expert Warns
Floods still inflict major costs to the economies, livelihoods and wellbeing of communities, with flood risks and impacts set to increase further due to climate change. Professor of Environmental Management, Lindsey McEwen explains how many experts now believe local communities have critical roles as key actors within flood risk management and disaster risk reduction. Professor McEwen, author ...
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Water Management Lessons from the City of Rotterdam
More than two-thirds of the biggest and most densely populated cities in the world are coastal delta cities, or find themselves perched precariously along estuaries, making them particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels. The city of Rotterdam is one such destination, with almost 80 per cent of the metropolis below sea level. As such, it’s particularly vulnerable to the effects of global ...
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Finapp flights at COP28
FINAPP was honored at COP28 for its innovative solution using Cosmic Rays and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the impact of climate change on food security, sustainable water resources, and disaster mitigation. Dubai (UAE) 2nd December 2023 – According to the IPCC Climate Change Report 2022, climate change is projected to cause an increase in global temperatures, with increasingly ...
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Gutermann Unveils Its New Cutting-Edge Zonescan AI Logger
On 4th December 2023, coinciding with the 5th World Water Loss Day, Gutermann announces the market introduction of its latest leak detecting, correlating noise logger “ZONESCAN AI”, an enhanced version of its widely acclaimed IoT noise logger “ZONESCAN NB-IoT” with remarkable features that set ZONESCAN AI ...
By Gutermann AG
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Worldwide Water Wars ‘On the Rise’
Water resources underpin absolutely every aspect of society and, without it, the world as we know it would come to a grinding halt. Given how essential water is to sustain life, it’s equally essential to do all we can to protect supplies, but growing pressure is now being put on the world’s rivers, lakes, streams and aquifers in the form of population growth, water mismanagement, ...
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The Australian government establishes the Net Zero Authority to oversee the smooth transition to a low-carbon economy.
The Australian government's Net Zero Authority will guide the country's economic transformation towards achieving net-zero emissions, reskilling workers for the energy transition, and facilitating collaboration with industry and investors on transformation opportunities. The creation of this authority comes on the heels of Australia's commitment to its climate goals, including a target to ...
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Anglian Water Fined £560,000 for Raw Sewage Discharge
Utility company Anglian Water has been fined £560,170 after approximately six million litres of raw sewage (more than two Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth) was discharged into the River Great Ouse in Northamptonshire over the course of 23 hours. The incident led to the deaths of 5,000 fish, with the pollution spreading 12 kilometres down the river, the result of electrical faults ...
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FPI Water Quality Monitoring Technology Platform Won the 2022 Practical Technology Certification for Ecological and Environmental Protection!
Recently, China Environmental Protection Industry Association (CEPIA) announced that the "Water bloom early warning technology based on in vivo fluorescent algae classification" and the "Shandong Shanghe Economic Development Zone Chemical Industry Park Toxic and Hazardous Gas Environmental Risk Early Warning System Construction Project" declared by FPI were awarded the 2022 practical technology ...
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Early Warnings for All - How to Invest Sustainably
he World Meteorological Organization has launched an ambitious initiative: Within five years, every person on this planet must be protected by early warning systems. While the mission sounds clear and it is backed by the United Nations, the path to achieving it is challenging. In this episode, Jay Wilson explains the differences between monitoring networks in various regions of the world ...
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COP27: Action On Water, Adaptation and Resilience
The COP27 climate conference in Egypt has just come to a close, with the aim of this year’s event to move from negotiations and planning to implementation of fully, timely and inclusive action on the ground, bringing together nations all over the world to tackle the climate crisis and build a more resilient planet. The science now shows without doubt that the window for taking decisive ...
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Biovision® - Biofouling monitoring system for real-time insight into biofouling settlement risk
The unwanted accumulation of biofouling in industrial water systems can have significant impacts in the plants, sometimes leading to operational shutdown and the costs of remediation actions and lost production can increase significantly O&M costs. The Biovision monitor is a tool that provides an early warning for potential biofouling risks, allowing operators to monitor in real-time the ...
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Quadrant Laboratories Wastewater Testing is Evolving; Serves Most of New York State
A lab in Central New York is now testing wastewater samples for the majority of counties in New York State. Quadrant Laboratories has been working since 2020 to analyze wastewater samples from schools, colleges and municipalities to provide public health officials and policymakers with early indications and information about the presence of COVID-19 in a community, even in the absence of ...
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NIVUS at IFAT - 30th May - 3rd June 2022 in Munich, Germany
Measure analyse optimise This was the motto we used to welcome our visitors to IFAT. Five days full of inspiring contacts and lively conversations - we look back on IFAT 2022 in Munich with appreciation. We showed our comprehensive solution concepts that go far beyond mere measurement technology. Our novel approach to heavy rain and flood forecasting provides reliable forecasts with ...
By NIVUS GmbH
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Ovarro pollution early-warning technology chosen by Anglian Water
Anglian Water has become the first utility to adopt new cloud-based technology to detect rising main sewer bursts. In a world-first, the UK utility is implementing early-warning system BurstDetect from technology company Ovarro, as part of its drive to eliminate serious pollution events in its region by 2025. Through a dashboard, BurstDetect provides an overview of system status ...
By Ovarro
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ION Science MiniPID sensors supporting Earth Day 2022
Bringing air quality into focus: ION Science MiniPID sensors supporting Earth Day 2022 As Earth Day 2022 arrives on the 22nd April, the message for the world this year is to ‘invest in our planet’. Earth Day encourages people to reflect and think about ‘what will you do?’, contributing to their ‘All In’ approach in creating a partnership for the planet. ...
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SouthWestSensor Ltd announces Series A investment from Skion Water
Investment and strategic partnership to drive the development and commercialisation of a wet chemical sensor platform for continuous monitoring of pollutants and nutrients in water to help customers make smarter water and waste water management decisions SOUTHAMPTON, England and BAD HOMBURG, Germany, Nov.1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SouthWestSensor Ltd ('SWS'), a UK based developer of a disruptive ...
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Algal Blooms - Monitoring, warning and control
Ondemand webinar The webinar is now available on-demand by clicking the button below. View on-demand In this webinar This webinar features LG Sonic CTO, Lisa Brand, and PhD Water Quality Expert, Valentini Maliaka. Real-time water quality monitoring Algal blooms early warning system How we use remote Sensing (Satellite Imagery) to map HABs How LG ultrasound technology ...
By LG Sonic
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