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UK Water Crisis ‘Down to Conservative Government Failures’
You would perhaps be forgiven for thinking that the UK, with its famously damp weather, would be relatively immune to the issues presented by the global water crisis, but this in fact could not be further from the case. Water is becoming increasingly problematic for countries all over the world as climate change takes hold and the UK is certainly not exempt from this, with ageing infrastructure, ...
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Genesis Water Technologies Launches Irygen Water Solutions India Affiliate
Hyderabad, India - Genesis Water Technologies, a US based global water and wastewater treatment solutions provider, is pleased to announce the launch of Irygen Water Solutions India, a new subsidiary affiliate focused on delivering innovative water and wastewater treatment systems and solutions to clients in the Indian market. Irygen Water Solutions India is a joint venture between Genesis Water ...
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Govt Unveils Plans to Improve Water Quality in England
The government has announced that investments to the tune of £5 billion will be made over the next five years to improve the quality of waterways across England and tackle pollution and climate change head on. The plan brings together a range of measures to address the challenges presented by agricultural and water company pollution, as well as climate change and population growth, with ...
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Pollution Penalties for Water Firms Increase to £250 Million
At the start of the year, the Environmental Audit Committee issued a warning that chronic underinvestment and failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement have resulted in poor water quality in rivers, lakes and streams around England. It was found that just 14 per cent of rivers met good ecological status, being contaminated by a dangerous chemical cocktail made up of pollution from ...
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First self-monitoring for Ultrasonic Flow Measurement
The measurement technology manufacturer is now equipping the NivuFlow 750 flow measurement system with self-monitoring intelligence. Measurement place operators benefit from higher operational reliability. They obtain targeted function checks and can schedule maintenance as needed. Thanks to the help of the self-diagnosis function, the measured values and the functionality of the sensor system ...
By NIVUS GmbH
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Clean Water Act Applies to Groundwater
Some are calling it “the clean water case of the century.” It arose over a sewage treatment plant on Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, that was disposing of 4 million gallons of partially treated sewage into the groundwater wells half a mile from the beach. A large percentage of the pollution found its way into the Pacific. The discharge certainly sparked controversy, but was it illegal? ...
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Rotork electric actuators installed to upgrade Chicago water purification plant
The City of Chicago Department of Water Management specified over 300 Rotork intelligent IQ actuators combined with IW quarter-turn worm gearboxes and over 200 IQT part-turn actuators to replace water hydraulic cylinders at the Eugene Sawyer Water Purification Plant. Formally known as the South Water Purification Plant, the site was renamed in 2016 in honour of Chicago’s former mayor, ...
By Rotork plc
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Supreme Court Ruling Sets New Test for Clean Water Act Permitting
On April 23, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that pollution traveling indirectly to rivers and streams through groundwater can be covered by the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) permitting requirements. The case, County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al, 590 U.S. (2020), concerned whether pollutants discharged from a point source into groundwater, a non-point source, and then conveyed ...
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Groups Notify Yakima Valley Factory Dairy of Intent to Sue for Endangering Public Health
Today, Center for Food Safety, Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE), and Friends of Toppenish Creek notified View Point Dairy, owned by Bill DeRuyter, in the Yakima Valley that they intend to sue the dairy in federal court to stop contamination of local drinking water supplies with animal waste from the confinement dairy operations. The notice alleges that View Point ...
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How could pollen clean water?
When we hear the word pollen, we most commonly think of hay fever, sneezing and allergic reactions. However, pollen is a largely beneficial component of our environment, aiding in the natural cycles of plant fertilisation and reproduction. But besides these altruistic acts, it has another hidden talent: cleansing water of its micropollutants and contaminants of emerging concern. These secret ...
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Uppsala University and the Ångström Laboratory study PFOS/PFAS
Uppsala University and the Ångström Laboratory have received funding for a pre-study on specific absorbents for PFOS/PFAS in storm water. The grant is a direct response to a query from Swedrop AB on ideas on how to address the issue. Storm- water is normally polluted with a wide variety of toxic substances, whereas PFOS/PFAS appears in low concentration, but is extremely persistent. ...
By Swedrop AB
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Water analysis : high temperature instead of toxic chemicals
The decomposition of organic substances always consumes oxygen. At the same time, the oxygen demand during degradation is an indication of the degree of pollution of water with organic substances. Therefore, the so-calledChemical Oxygen Demand (COD)is an important parameter in water analysis: in the case of the standardized wet-chemical method (according to DIN 38409-41) and in rapid tests ...
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Wet gas scrubbing in emission treatment compared to other methods of emission treatment
In the field of air pollution control several techniques are at our disposal : gas scrubbing (physical, chemical), biofiltration, bioscrubbing, biotricklingfiltration, activated carbon filtration and post combustion (thermal – catalytic). Obviously, every method has its own application area, advantages as well as disadvantages, all at a different cost, depending on the circumstances. Gas ...
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The world of watermaster - newsletter 2015
The growth of urban population is a trend that is likely to continue in future decades. More than half of the people globally are already living in densely populated areas. More people means more strain on the environment - urbanization is exerting increasing pressure on urban water systems and indirectly on rural waters as well. Water related problems have emerged as one of the most critical ...
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Why You Should Monitor Groundwater?
What is groundwater? Groundwater is water that is stored below the earth’s surface. When rain or other sources of water come into contact with the ground, the majority of it travels below the surface. Though much of this moisture is then absorbed by plants or returned to the atmosphere (through infiltration), some water will travel deeper beneath the surface – where it reaches and ...
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EIB sustainability awareness bond breaks new ground
The European Investment Bank is looking to tie its water lending activities more specifically to the Sustainable Development Goals by issuing a first-of-its kind “Sustainability Awareness Bond” later this year. The bank currently disburses around €1.5 billion in water funding every year, although an EIB official stressed that from an additionality standpoint, a debt instrument ...
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Fluence’s NIROBOX™ Continues to Expand Its Global Reach
Further growth in South America, with Two NIROBOX™ units ordered by a municipality in Buenos Aires to provide relief to residents currently consuming highly contaminated water Melbourne and New York, 1 March 2018 Fluence Corporation Limited (ASX: FLC) is pleased to announce its continued global growth, entering the Philippines, and further growing in Argentina, with agreements to provide ...
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Fluence’s NIROBOX™ continues to expand its global reach
Further growth in South East Asia, entering the Philippines with the commissioning of a NIROBOX™ solution to produce drinking water from seawater at a coastal resort Further growth in South America, with Two NIROBOX™ units ordered by a municipality in Buenos Aires to provide relief to residents currently consuming highly contaminated water Melbourne and New York, 1 March 2018 ...
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OriginWater Sets up Xiongan Subsidiary to Fully Serve National Strategy of New Area Construction
On Jan.22, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the Notice on Approved Company Names, which shows that OriginWater’s joint-venture subsidiary “Xiongan OriginWater Shunze Technology Co., Ltd.” has been approved. This means that, after signing a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Xiongan New Area and taking the lead in entering Xiongan Zhongguancun ...
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Air monitoring equipment endorsed by the Chinese government
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its automated air-monitoring systems for both canister and tube sampling have been officially endorsed by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and ...
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