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Groundwater at Expo Zaragoza

Felipe Ortuño, a member of the Spanish Executive Committee of IAH writes to draw our attention to: A Round Table entitled: 'Groundwater and Climate Change' on 30 July 2008 from 20:15 to 22:00 in the El Faro Pavilion. Participants will be: Jesús Carrera (CSIC - Barcelona); Jorge Molinero (AIH-Spanish Group President); Felip Ortuño (Catalan Water Agency); Javier Samper (University of La Coruña); ...

Jul. 21, 2008

By International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)

Green for Green: New Jersey American Water Environmental Grants Announced

New Jersey American Water will award more than $38,000 to four green projects/organizations to the recipients of the company’s 2013 Environmental Grant Program. The grant winners have projects underway that address water source or water shed protection. A panel of judges from New Jersey American Water chose the following recipients based on criteria such as project goals, project impact, ...

Apr. 18, 2013

By American Water

Screening soil moisture conditions reveals an increased risk of drought in a Swedish drainage basin

The risk of drought in the Norrström drainage basin, Sweden, increased during the 20th century, a new study has found. As the frequency of the dry periods increased, less water was available in the landscape for agriculture and for the resupply of groundwater — despite an increase in precipitation in the area over the same period. The researchers reached this conclusion after screening ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

EPA Orders Continued Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater at Former Manufacturing Facility in Richmond, Va.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an administrative settlement with Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and LSI Corp. regarding a former circuit board manufacturing facility located in Henrico County, at 4500 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond, Va., requiring the companies to address groundwater contaminated with volatile organic compounds. Under an administrative order on consent, LSI Corp. ...

May 21, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Safe and Effective Coal Ash Dewatering Project History

Not only for EPA compliance, but to maintain the integrity of your excavations and to stay on schedule and within budget. Project Background The project consisted of lowering the groundwater and dewatering the coal ash basin to allow for the excavation of residual ash accumulated in the basin. In addition to this, it supported the installation of a new liner which allowed the ash pond to be ...

Jan. 22, 2018

By Griffin Dewatering Corporation

Water problems mount for South Asian farmers

The lack of rains in large, monsoon-dependent, agricultural areas of South Asia has compounded concerns expressed in a recent report about an impending global water crisis and its detrimental impact on agriculture. Poor monsoon rains have diminished the water available for agriculture and groundwater reservoir replenishment in South Asia, as well as making it difficult for farmers to know when ...

Aug. 21, 2012

By SciDev.Net

EPA Settlement Protects Soil and Groundwater in Lawrence, Mass.

In a recent settlement agreement with EPA’s New England office, Hilton Oil Co., Inc. will take action to come into compliance with Underground Storage Tank regulations to protect groundwater and soil at its facility in Lawrence, Mass. The company also agreed to pay a $27,000 penalty. The action stems from an EPA inspection of the facility in June 2013. A subsequent EPA complaint alleged ...

Apr. 6, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Drought has state debating its unregulated pumping

Three years of drought have Californians debating an end to the state's status as one of the last in the West with a pump-as-you-please policy for the vital underground sources that provide up to 65 percent of the state's water. Even with falling groundwater tables contributing to mandatory water restrictions for many cities, and forcing farmers and others to drill deeper and deeper wells, it's ...

Aug. 20, 2014

By Associated Press

Pennsylvania DEP Effort Encourages Oil and Gas Industry to Use Mine Drainage Water

The Department of Environmental Protection announced today the preliminary process it will use for authorizing the use of acid mine drainage water for oil and gas operations, including Marcellus Shale wells. "Acid mine drainage impairs more than 5,000 miles of streams in our state, making it ideal for operators to take the drainage out of our waterways and put it to use for hydraulic ...

Nov. 18, 2011

By Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

ADB, Experts Discuss Ways to Protect Groundwater Resources in PRC

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) sponsored a 2-day forum in Beijing to discuss various innovative measures and technologies to protect groundwater resources in the country. Depletion of groundwater resources is a major concern in many parts of the PRC, particularly in the drier northern regions. In many rural areas, most of the groundwater is used for agricultural purposes and extensive use has ...

Jul. 30, 2015

By Asian Development Bank

Soil Removal Begins at Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site in Plaistow, N.H.

Beginning this week, the first phase of soil removal is beginning at the Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site in Plaistow, N.H. The lightly contaminated soil was previously excavated and/or relocated and stockpiled on site in order to construct a new temporary driveway and access road to the Site. The soil will be trucked off-site utilizing the newly-constructed temporary driveway and access road. A ...

Feb. 27, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Water monitoring and treatment technologies gain traction as potable water resources Diminish, finds Frost & Sullivan

Groundwater is contained in rocks that are known as aquifers. Aided by gravity, the water fills the aquifer from the bottom upwards. The lower part of the aquifer has spaces that are completely filled by water. These are termed as the 'saturated zone' of the aquifer. In the top part of the aquifer, the rock spaces contain air as well as water. This part of the aquifer is called 'unsaturated'. ...

Sep. 24, 2010

By Frost & Sullivan

How vulnerable is our groundwater?

When water travels through soil and bedrock to the water table, it carries minerals, nutrients or chemicals from the surface with it. Environmental research is increasingly concerned with preferential flow, or the movement of water through pores and cracks at a faster rate and bypassing most of the surrounding material, either soil or fractured rock. A special section on preferential flow ...

Jun. 24, 2010

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Hospitals Depend on PURE-Steam Coil Cleaning to Reduce HAI, Save Energy and Improve IAQ

With ‘‘health care–associated infection’’ or ‘‘HAI’’ also known as nosocomial infections within healthcare facilities on the rise they adopting the PURE-Steam coil cleaning and HVAC cleaning process has helped keep the hospitals airstream clean and sterile. Many healthcare facilities across the US e.g. St Anthony’s Hospital, Oak Hill ...

Dec. 10, 2014

By Pure Air Control Services

Small-scale solutions key to water security

Small-scale water solutions are a key to increasing agricultural productivity in the face of climate change, says water expert David Molden. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a dire warning that climate change could halve crop yields in some African countries by 2020. The prediction has since become controversial, with even an IPCC scientist reportedly saying ...

Sep. 15, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Kijlstra launch a square plug for a square hole

A revolutionary pre-cast concrete manhole that can typically be installed up to 16 times quicker than traditional systems on standard units has been launched in the UK by European construction materials giant Kijlstra. Manufactured from self-compacting concrete and poured monolithically with benching to guarantee optimum size consistency and strength, the system is combined with a perfect finish ...

Apr. 12, 2012

By Kijlstra Precast Ltd.

Review of water quality league tables and update of ground water quality indicators

The National River Water Quality Network includes 77 sites located on 35 of New Zealand’s typically larger rivers, which drain about half of New Zealand’s land area. The Ministry for the Environment has published information on the water quality of these sites. The sites are ranked in three league tables based on nutrient levels, water quality for recreational use and biological indicators. ...

Dec. 1, 2009

By New Zealand Government

ACWA Issues Recommendations for Improving Groundwater Management in California

ACWA today issued a suite of far-reaching recommendations for improving management of groundwater basins throughout California amid growing concerns about potentially unsustainable declines in groundwater levels and degraded water quality in some basins of the state. The recommendations include legislative and administrative changes that strengthen groundwater management and accountability ...

Apr. 8, 2014

By The Association of California Water Agencies

Environmental Cleanup Technology Honored

A technology that uses “green” chemistry to help microbes break down contaminants in soil before they reach the groundwater has earned kudos from the editors of Environmental Protection website as 2011 Soil & Groundwater New Product of the Year. The technology, which was invented by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory, and licensed and ...

Nov. 21, 2011

By EOS Remediation, LLC

You cannot just bury your medical waste

A growing concern across many developing countries comes from the lack of infrastructure and dependable waste management. What some believe is the easiest approach to disposing of medical waste is just throwing it out into open ground, the next step in this process appears to be simply burying the waste and hoping that the problem takes care of itself. Sadly where out of sight, out of mind ...

Jan. 9, 2018

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

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