President-elect Barack Obama’s job jar for his first day in office after the January 20th Inauguration will be rather daunting: 'Deal with the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression; End money-sucking and clearly unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Restore international confidence in the American economy; Create 5 million new green jobs; Clean up the environment; Deal with ...
Wavin Plastics has launched the OSMA AquaGrid pervious paving system to offer a new way to manage rain and surface water drainage. Continuing residential and commercial development means more hard-standing impermeable surfaces, less ground where natural drainage is still possible and more pressure on man-made drainage. The AquaGrid is an easily installed alternative to hard impermeable ...
Wavin Plastics has launched the OSMA AquaGrid pervious paving system to offer a new way to manage rain and surface water drainage. Continuing residential and commercial development means more hard-standing impermeable surfaces, less ground where natural drainage is still possible and more pressure on man-made drainage. The AquaGrid is an easily installed alternative to hard impermeable ...
United Water announced that the Utility Workers Union of America Local 375 recently ratified a new contract with the company. Local 375 represents employees affiliated with United Water Jersey City. The company operates the Jersey City water system through a contract agreement with the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority. “Both labor and management worked ...
United Water announced that the Utility Workers Union of America Local 584 ratified a new contract with the company. Local 584 represents employees affiliated with United Water Delaware. The company provides water services to about 110,000 people in northern New Castle County. “This is a fair and balanced agreement which addresses issues such as wages, benefits ...
A new UN report warns that without large new water-related investments many societies worldwide will soon confront rising desperation and conflicts over life’s most essential resource. Presenting their report at UN Headquarters, New York, officials of UN University and the UN Office for Sustainable Development said unmet water goals threaten many world regions and form a barrier to key ...
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, September 21, 2007 (ENS) - The Kurdistan Regional Government's health minister has warned that cholera outbreaks in the north could spread if the government does not improve its water supply. 'If the government doesn't fix the dirty water problem, the cholera outbreak will continue and a huge disaster will occur,' said KRG minister of health Zryan Osman.Dr. ...
For over 50 years, the Myron L Company has worked relentlessly to produce quality tools you can depend on. Some of our instruments have been in continuous use since they were manufactured – more than 45 years ago. That’s why professionals around the world trust us to deliver the results they need in diverse, demanding water quality applications. We are proud to offer innovative new ...
Nestlé S.A. / Nestlé CEO warns water scarcity is major threat to food industry . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ...
The Environmental Protection Agency and American Rivers today announced the six recipients of $1,373,119 in environmental grants to benefit communities, and protect rivers and clean water in the Potomac Highlands region of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The announcement was made at Frostburg University in Frostburg, Md. by by EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin, U.S. ...
Today, the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) held its 3rd Annual State of the District address. WRD Board President Sergio Calderon and WRD General Manager Robb Whitaker ...
Kurita in his continuous commitment for sustainable treatments has developed Corrsave® 100, an Innovative new molecule that provides corrosion inhibition & hardness stabilization for water systems with special focus on treatments where low P (Phosphorous) and biodegradability is a demand. Corrsave 100 is: Based on Natural and renewable organic acids Inherent ...
Last summer tensions heated up on the India-Pakistan border. Yet this dispute involved not Hindu or Islamic faith but rather equally fundamentalist beliefs about who had dominion over – and who could thus decide partition of – the Indus river. The tragic and universal irony is that certain interests complained that too much of the transboundary current was being held back behind ...
Latest project is one of the world’s largest dryer plants. 200 tonnes a day – that is how much sludge Keppel Seghers’ HARDPELLETISER units will treat at the Stickney wastewater treatment plant in Chicago. Keppel Seghers has just been contracted by the Stickney plant to provide four HARDPELLETISER units as well as supervise their construction and commissioning at a new dryer facility, ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Atlantic Funding and Real Estate home building company and its owner, Alfred Spaziano, to address violations of federal rules that reduce pollution from contaminated stormwater runoff at its Gateway Landing construction site in Green and Gates, New York. Under the agreement, Atlantic Funding is required to comply with all ...
In late 2011, the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM), through the General Directorate of Water (DGA), announced an open tender call for the implementation of an information system for the management and analysis of hydrological data from the Official Gauging Stations Network (ROEA) of all the Water Boards (Confederaciones Hidrográficas) in the country. A joint ...
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have issued an appeal in response to flooding in the east of the country. The appeal seeks US$15.5 million to cover the needs of at least 70,000 people over the next six months. “We have witnessed the generous response of local communities, who, despite widespread poverty, have helped affected families with food, water, and clothing and who ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the second phase of cleanup work will begin this week at the Mercury Refining Superfund site, a former mercury reclamation facility in the towns of Colonie and Guilderland, New York. Soil, sediment and ground water at the site became contaminated with mercury as a result of past operations and waste disposal practices. Exposure to mercury ...
Soilworks, the worldwide leader in dust control and soil stabilization products, has been awarded a second U.S .Patent for its revolutionary gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology-based dust control product, Durasoil. The GTL formulated Durasoil (U.S. Patent No. 9,068,106) produces the purest, greenest and only non-petroleum synthetic dust suppression fluid on the global market today. Until now, ...