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Putting a price on water quality
One way to clean-up water pollution is to award 'credits' to facilities that reduce their emissions. These credits can then be traded with other facilities to compensate for pollution outputs. This controls overall pollutions levels, while creating an economic incentive to reduce emissions. Research using models that simulate water quality has been used to establish the value of these credits and ...
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Addressing Water Quality in the Philippines
Wastewater treatment regulations aim to improve economic and health problems The Republic of the Philippines, which comprises more than 7,000 islands, has the fifth longest coastline of any nation in the world at more than 36,000 miles. But with increasing development, population, and tourism, water quality has become a problem that threatens industry, the environment, and public health alike. ...
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The EIB supports water quality improvements in the Baltic Sea
In line with the priorities of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 17.5 million to St Petersburg’s water company Vodokanal to finance reduction of the pollution discharged into the Gulf of Finland. Jointly financed by the Nordic Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank, the ...
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Project to improve water quality in River Thames
Black & Veatch has been selected by Thames Water as principal contractor to upgrade and extend Mogden Sewage Treatment Works in West London. Construction will start in spring 2010 to significantly reduce the amount of storm sewage that overflows into the River Thames during heavy rainfall when the site becomes overloaded. As principal contractor, Black & Veatch is responsible for the ...
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Bathing water quality event set for Plymouth
The quality of the bathing water at Plymouth will be discussed at a community engagement event which will be part of the Blue Mile weekend on Saturday and Sunday. The Environment Agency will be at the event in the Barbican on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September with other partner organisations including Plymouth City Council, South West Water, Marine Biology Association, Marine Conservation ...
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Hot Topic: Water Quality in the UK
While water quantity has long been hitting the headlines as one of the main issues of the water crisis, with extreme weather events like droughts and flooding taking centre stage over the last few years, water quality on the other hand has been flying under the radar somewhat… until now that is. Keeping rivers, lakes and streams healthy is an absolute must to sustain life on earth, but it ...
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Water supplier fines ring-fenced for water quality projects
In 2021, water suppliers were handed a record amount in fines relating to pollution incidents around the country – and it has just been announced that this money will be funnelled back to help protect the environment and make water quality improvements in the nation’s waterways. Since 2015, fines of more than £141 million have been secured following 56 prosecutions by the ...
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Water Quality Improves in Long Island Sound
For the second summer in a row, concentrations of dissolved oxygen in Long Island Sound are higher than the long-term average, indicating improved water quality and improved ecological conditions for organisms that live in the Sound. Aquatic animals rely on oxygen that is dissolved in water to survive. When dissolved oxygen levels decline, this can cause some animals to move away, weaken, or even ...
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PA Helps Missouri Comply with Water Quality Standards
EPA Region 7 has approved Missouri's change to state water quality standards rules to provide greater flexibility in Missouri's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources submitted rule changes to EPA on Dec. 11, 2012, for review and approval. The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires EPA to review the state's rule changes to ...
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U.S. EPA approves new water quality standards for Chicago River System
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the State of Illinois' new and revised water quality standards for five segments of the Chicago and Calumet Rivers. "In May of this year, US EPA notified the State of Illinois that upgraded water quality standards were necessary to protect the health and safety of the increasing number of people who use these rivers for recreation," said EPA ...
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Connecticut Water Quality Trading Program Wins Blue Ribbon Award
HARTFORD, Connecticut, November 2, 2007 (ENS) - An innovative program to reduce discharges of nitrogen from sewage treatment plants into Long Island Sound has earned the state of Connecticut the first Blue Ribbon Water Quality Trading Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Water quality trading allows pollution sources to meet regulatory obligations by purchasing credits from ...
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EPA: upgraded water quality standards needed for portions of Chicago area waterway system
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today notified the State of Illinois that water quality standards for portions of the Chicago and Calumet Rivers must be upgraded to protect the health and safety of people who recreate in these waterways. The changes are necessary because an increasing number of people are coming into direct contact with the water through kayaking, canoeing, boating, jet ...
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UNAS: preparations for cold anammox pilot
Within our Dutch water boards diligent efforts are devoted to find more cost effective means of sewage treatment and to aim for adequate water effluent qualities. Goals have been defined to reclaim a maximum of energy and nutrients. In the Netherlands a large number of WWTP’s has been constructed, which could benefit from a technological upgrade, with a key role for cold anammox. Colsen ...
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Water quality excellent at most of Europe’s bathing sites
The water at Europe’s beaches, rivers and lakes was generally of high quality in 2013, with more than 95 % of these sites meeting minimum requirements. Coastal performed slightly better than inland bathing waters, the data shows. All the bathing sites in Cyprus and Luxembourg were deemed ‘excellent’. These countries were followed by Malta (99 % excellent), Croatia (95 %) and ...
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EPA awards over $1 million to the uno research and technology foundation
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1,112,800 to the University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation for water quality improvement projects in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. These projects will focus on the reduction or elimination of sewage related pollution and provide education and outreach to local residents. Included in these projects is water quality ...
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Inadequate policing puts Washington water quality in jeopardy
When the Department of Ecology — the state agency that watches over polluters — recently tallied how many folks it needed to protect the health of Puget Sound and local lakes and rivers, officials came to a startling conclusion. The number of people policing water quality is less than half what's needed to do the job. Statewide, there are more than 6,500 construction sites, sewage treatment ...
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EPA on Alabama Beach to Create Quick Water Quality Tests
FAIRHOPE, Alabama (ENS) - This summer, thousands of beachgoers at Alabama's Fairhope Municipal Beach will be recruited to participate in a study that will help the U.S. EPA develop a new generation of super-fast water quality tests. The new tests are expected to provide results in two hours or less to replace the standard 24 to 48 hour tests. This will allow local beach managers to test the water ...
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EPA Provides Grant to Improve Water Quality in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to the Vieques Historical and Conservation Trust to fund surveys of old and decaying septic systems in five neighborhoods in Vieques. The grant was awarded under the EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, which supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. ...
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Chesapeake Bay water quality `disturbing`, new data shows
The health of the Chesapeake Bay is dismal and more than three decades of restoration efforts have done little to improve the condition of the US's largest estuary, according to two independent assessments released last week. The reports add to a litany of evidence that the water quality throughout the bay and its tributaries is severely degraded and echo lingering concern that the plan for ...
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Record drop in water quality at Britain`s top beaches
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) have announced a 10% drop in the number of bathing beaches recommended for excellent water quality in its annual Good Beach Guide, compared to last year. In total, 443 (57%) UK beaches are ‘MCS Recommended' this year out of 778 tested, compared to 495 last year. This is the biggest year-on-year fall in the Good Beach Guide's 21 year history. The latest ...
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