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First AquiWave wireless water leak detection systems professionally installed & maintained

Aquilar are pleased to announce the first two AquiWave wireless water leak detection systems have been installed by its specialist partner, Diamond Controls, who had previously undergone training with us and receive ongoing technical support as the first systems were installed. The training enabled their installation team to carry out the wireless survey necessary to determine the best water ...

Oct. 16, 2020

By Aquilar Ltd

Gutermann Present at World Mobile Congress

Gutermann presented at their partner NEC's stand at World Mobile Congress 2013, presenting Zonescan Alpha as "Smart Water Leakage Detection" Gutermann and NEC presented Zonescan Fixed Network Monitoring as NEC's upcoming "Smart Water Leakage Detection" solution for Smart Cities at the World Mobile Congress 2013, held in Barcelona in late February. NEC showcased a range of innovative solutions ...

Mar. 18, 2013

By Gutermann AG

Japan`s radioactive water leaks: How dangerous?

New revelations of contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have raised alarm, coming just weeks after Japanese officials acknowledged that radioactive water has been seeping into the Pacific from the plant for more than two years, The government announced this week that it would contribute 47 billion yen ($470 million) to build ...

Sep. 5, 2013

By Associated Press

Thames water finds a gigantic leak on a trunk main

Leak detection teams using the AQUASCAN TM2 tunk main correlator located one of the largest leaks ever to be found and repaired in the history of Thames Water: 3 million litres per day. The water escaping from the 16-inch cast iron pipe buried 2.5 metres beneath Guildford Street near the Great Ormond Street Hospital was discovered amid an intensive hunt for leaks across the capital’s trunk ...

Sep. 23, 2019

By Gutermann AG

Active Leak Detection

When investigating a suspected leak either within a customers property or on the mains network we will conduct a full and thorough survey of the problem area. This will include checks on the integrity of the zone or area and a brief assessment of consumption. We will then survey all mains and fittings with a leak noise correlator and traditional sounding techniques. We also use additional ...

Feb. 14, 2014

By LDS Global

TEPCO says was reluctant to worry public over leak

The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said Friday that it delayed acknowledging that the plant was leaking contaminated water into the sea because it did not want to worry the public until it was certain there was a problem. Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged for the first time this week that its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was leaking contaminated underground water into the ocean, a ...

Jul. 26, 2013

By Associated Press

64% of IT Managers Had an AirCon Failure in the Last Year!

In 2007 we commissioned a survey of data centre managers and found that over 45% of the IT managers and facilities personnel that we spoke to had experienced an air-conditioning failure within the previous 12 months. As a supplier of environmental monitoring equipment we often hear horror stories of failing cooling systems, but we wondered if the air-con systems we rely on today are any more ...

Jul. 22, 2019

By Jacarta Ltd.

Japan gov`t to help stop radioactive water leaks

Japan's government said Wednesday that it would step in and take "firm measures" to tackle contaminated water leaks at the country's crippled nuclear plant, including possibly funding a multibillion-dollar project to fix the problem. The announcement came a day after the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant said some of the water was seeping over or around an underground barrier it ...

Aug. 7, 2013

By Associated Press

Water leaks may become new Japan nuclear disaster

Japan's nuclear watchdog said a leak of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant could be the beginning of a new disaster - a series of leaks of contaminated water from storage tanks. The plant operator has built hundreds of steel tanks to store massive amounts of radioactive water coming from three melted reactors, as well as underground water running into ...

Aug. 22, 2013

By Associated Press

Gutermann and Nec Release Joint Water Leak Detection Solution

The solution combines Gutermann's high-precision sensors with NEC's cloud computing and Big Data technologies Tokyo and Zurich, September 5, 2014 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Gutermann AG, a Switzerland-based global leader in advanced leak detection technologies, today commenced global sales of the NEC Water Leakage Detection Solution, which uses cutting-edge big data collection and ...

Sep. 5, 2014

By Gutermann AG

Hamilton Reduces Water Loss With a Proactive Leak Detection Program

A focused approach to action On March 27, 2019, the City of Hamilton joined another 490 Canadian municipalities, declaring a climate change emergency that threatens cities, regions, provinces, nations and the world at large. In doing so, the city has joined forces with an international movement to take action now. As a part of the declaration, Hamilton Water committed to ...

Oct. 6, 2020

By Gutermann AG

Utilis Projects Presented by Two Independent Firms Show Results Exceed Those of Alternatives

Two independent engineering consulting firms presented the results of projects comparing the Utilis satellite-based method for leak detection to other methods at the American Water Works Association’s ACE 2019 annual conference. The presentations were conducted by Tori Yokoyama from Hazen and Sawyer, and Leita Bennet of GHD. Both independently showed that Utilis far outperformed historical ...

Jun. 19, 2019

By Utilis

Data Centre and Server Room Water Leak Detection - Top Tips

Though temperature and humidity conditions are often the first parameters IT Managers look to monitor, feedback from our worldwide customer-base suggests that the next biggest environmental threat to data centre and server room uptime is water ingress. Water leaks are particularly dangerous in Server Rooms and Data Centres as they can go unnoticed for long periods of time until they cause ...

Jul. 22, 2019

By Jacarta Ltd.

Utilis Advocates for Texas Senate Bill, Enabling Business Exchange with Israel

Utilis participated in a Texas state legislative committee hearing on April 9th and was subsequently recognized on both the Senate floor by Senator Brandon Creighton and on the House floor by Representative Phil King. Utilis CEO, Elly Perets, spoke before the Senate Committee of Business and Commerce to advocate for a bill that seeks to prioritize and strengthen the relationship between Texas and ...

Apr. 16, 2019

By Utilis

Workers dig deep to fix massive New York City water leak

Workers are planning to go under the river and through the rocks to replace part of a massive tunnel leaking New York City's drinking water. They're blasting through hundreds of feet of shale and building a shaft on each side of the Hudson River, about 60 miles north of New York City. Once they reach about 600 feet below the river next year, they will begin building a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel ...

Feb. 2, 2015

By Associated Press

Informing householders of leaks can prevent water loss

By identifying leaks using ‘smart’ water meters, and then encouraging householders to fix the problem, water companies can reduce the volumes of wasted water dramatically, new research suggests. In a case study in Australia, households reduced water loss by up to 91% after being informed of leaks in their homes and offered a rebate on repairs. Water scarcity is a serious problem ...

Oct. 24, 2013

By European Commission, Environment DG

Japan audit: Millions of dollars wasted in Fukushima cleanup

Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted about a fifth of the 350 billion yen ($3 billion) it has spent to clean up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A Board of Audit report described various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also said the cleanup work has been ...

Mar. 24, 2015

By Associated Press

Could an Air-Conditioning Malfunction Actually Trigger Your Data Centre Fire Suppression System?

If one system fails in a data centre, the knock-on effect can be huge. Queen’s University, Ontario, can attest to this. What began as an air-conditioning system failure ended in their data centre being offline for about 20 hours. In late July last year the air-conditioning system used in the Queen’s University Data Centre began to leak. This malfunction caused mineral oil from the AC ...

Jul. 22, 2019

By Jacarta Ltd.

EPA urges Northwest residents to stop drips and leaks during National “Fix-a-Leak Week,” March 17-23

Easy-to-fix household leaks account for more than one trillion gallons of water wasted each year across the United States, equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million homes. In the race against water waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is urging people to fix household water leaks during the sixth annual Fix-a-Leak Week, March 17 through 23, 2014. Water ...

Mar. 17, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Apartment Possibly Infested by Mold has a Colorado Family on Edge

Earlier this month, the local affiliate of ABC News reported about a Northglenn family’s struggle with mold in their apartment. The mother of three children moved into the complex in early May, a month that saw heavy rainfall. Shortly after the rains began she noticed water leaking into the apartment. The flooding was so bad that the tenant claimed she had to use buckets to collect the ...

Jun. 30, 2011

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

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