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Ohio`s US$2.5bn plan to reduce overflows
The Ohio EPA is seeking public comments on its draft approval of the city of Columbus` wet weather management plan. The sewer system in Ohio`s capital city currently discharges some 1.65 billion gallons of sewer overflow in a typical year. Under the new plan, by the year 2025, these overflows will be reduced to a total of about 250 million gallons. `When the plan is implemented, there will be a dramatic decrease in sewer overflows and basement backups that occur in the city of Columbus service area after rains and snowmelt,` the agency said Friday in a statement. The plan addresses overflows from ... |
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EIB finances EUR 200m water and wastewater investments in Rome
The European Investment Bank is lending EUR 200 million to ACEA to finance water and wastewater investments in the Province of Rome. The project covers investments from ACEA’s 2007-2012 investment programme under its ATO2 concession. ACEA is today the largest Italian water sector operator, with a population served in excess of 8 million. The loan was signed in Rome by ACEA’s CEO Andrea Mangoni and EIB’ Vice President Dario Scannapieco, responsible for financing operations in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and the Western Balkans.
`The Bank appreciates being able to finance ACEA’s investment ... |
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- Mangroves key to saving lives
The replanting of mangroves on the coasts of the Philippines could help save many of the lives lost in the 20-30 typhoons that hit the islands annually. ...
- US and Canada strengthen Great Lakes cooperation
The Ontario Government and municipal officials from around the Great Lakes on both sides of the border have begun a new era of working together to restore, ...
- Integrated water management helps control agricultural pollution
By 2015, all surface waters and groundwaters in the European Union should aim to achieve `good status`, with healthy ecosystems and low levels of pollution. ...
- Government committed to West Coast water quality
The government has invested significantly in improving drinking water safety on the West Coast and will continue to do so, local MP and Associate Health ...
- New era dawns for world’s oceans via EPOCA
Last June, the EU’s largest research consortium to combat ocean acidification was launched. The European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) combines ...
- Unlocking the water held by US forests not so easy, say experts
Can forests, which process nearly two-thirds of the nation’s water supply, be managed to help slake our growing demand for water and avert the worst consequences ...
- Rampant disease washes in with flood water in Sierra Leone
With malaria, diarrhea and vomiting, pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory infections, worm infestations, scabies, abscesses, sores, and boils all ...
- MIOX selected to treat reclaimed water for ECUA`s Pensacola plant
MIOX Corporation has been selected by Baskerville-Donovan, Inc. to supply five RIO Series on-site sodium hypochlorite generators for the final disinfection ...
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