water municipality Articles
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Municipal water services in Guatemala: exploring official perceptions
In Guatemala, water services are frequently interrupted, water pressure is inadequate and tap water is often unsafe to drink. Water providers face the challenge of maintaining water systems and improving water services to provide reliable and safe drinking water. Understanding the perspectives of government officers may help in finding solutions to overcome this challenge. Semi-structured ...
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Examining the emerging environmental protection policy convergence in the Ontario municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater sectors
This study examines the governance approaches applying to Ontario's municipal water management activities and observes an environmental policy convergence occurring in two different dimensions: across the drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater aspects of municipal water activities with respect to governance approaches, and federal, provincial, and municipal governments in terms of drawing ...
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Tecta B16 Success Story - Malaysia - Case Study
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, a major provider of liquefied petroleum gas controls all the oil and gas recourses in Malaysia. They took the decision to build a large water treatment plant when the local municipal water company could no longer meet their ...
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Communication and the Narrative Basis of Sustainability: Observations from the Municipal Water Sector
Numerous studies attempt to operationalize sustainability and seek to characterize objective, or at least standardized, metrics of sustainable conditions and/or operations. In this paper, we suggest that sustainability is better viewed as an emergent quality, defined in terms of specific institutions and situations. Observations from the water sector suggest that sustainability is not merely a ...
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Framing and blaming in the Cochabamba water agenda: local, municipal and regional perspectives
We present framings of water issues at three administrative levels in Cochabamba, Bolivia to increase insight of how actors’ perspectives facilitate, obstruct or strengthen suggested actions or solutions. Participatory vulnerability assessments were conducted with leaders in one peri-urban community and municipal and regional officials in water-related sectors. Actors framed water problems ...
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Water services sector reform: the Kosova experience
Governments of countries with emerging economies usually are not very successful in providing safe and sufficient potable water and adequate wastewater services to their citizens. The reasons vary from inadequate institutional structures to chronic under-investment in water infrastructure. To address this, governments embark on reforms based on commonly accepted principles of good governance ...
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Industry, Municipalities Embracing Water Reuse
When cities produce recycled water and sell it to industries at a good price, it’s a win-win situation In the United States, industry accounts for 87% of withdrawals of fresh water. Considering this staggering statistic, along with increasingly unpredictable water supplies, it’s no surprise that industries’ investment in water reuse is trending. Companies are both building ...
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In the shadow of the city: financing water infrastructure in small towns in Burkina Faso
The abundant praise awarded for the development of the urban water services sector in Burkina Faso stands in stark contrast with the development of the rural water services sector. This article examines the funding of water infrastructure in four small villages in Burkina Faso. The article finds that public funding for water infrastructure for these municipalities is largely nonexistent. ...
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Best practices in regulating State-owned and municipal water utilities
The fundamental lesson that emerges from this survey of regulating state-owned and municipal water utilities in developing countries is that sector regulation has to be embedded in an adequate and consistent institutional framework in order to have a positive impact on performance. Sector regulation, by itself, is no guarantee of performance improvements in the drinking water supply and ...
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The Municipal Water & Sewage Treatment Sector
The best reason for the use of Albin Pump Hose pumps in this industry is the low maintenance of the pump. This industry readily accepts an average hose life of 1.500 - 3.000 hours in continuous duty and this hose life will provide much lower maintenance costs and repair time than with other pumps. Basic Pump Requirements For operation in an automatic system the following would seem to be widely ...
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Industry, Municipalities Embracing Water Reuse
In industry, recycled water can be used as manufacturing process water, in energy generation, for oil and gas exploration, and in a host of other purple-pipe applications, including landscape irrigation and toilet flushing. When cities produce recycled water and sell it to industries at a good price, it’s a win-win situation In the United States, industry accounts for 87% of withdrawals ...
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James Dunning: Synergizing Innovation in the Water Sector at Syrinix
Bringing innovation to mature water infrastructure systems can be a significant challenge. New regulatory, environmental, and market factors all constrain the ability of water users to institute better and more effective management strategies. Syrinix is a company working to help them by providing products and technologies that can simultaneously address many different water management issues, ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Improving Automation At Remote Sites
Because water treatment usually involves a large geographic area, automation systems for water/wastewater applications often require remote sites. In industrial water treatment, water is typically treated immediately adjacent to its points of use, and these locations may be across large industrial complexes. In municipal applications, water often is pumped long distances across extensive areas ...
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Water Sector Can Attract Private Investment By Improving Efficiency
To help to attract badly needed private investment in water infrastructure globally, regulators and governments need to ensure more efficient use of water and educate the public about the real costs of delivering water, a senior World Bank executive said May 7. “Unless we are able to maximize efficiencies on the supply side and we are willing to have the political stamina to recognize that ...
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Meeting the US Environmental Protection Agency Drinking Water Requirements with a UV/Persulfate Analyzer
Abstract The rapid and precise measurement of organic carbon in trace levels of water is of interest to the pharmaceutical, drinking water and environmental industries where regulations restrict the amount of discharge or contamination. Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis is considered an effective indicator of organic contamination in water. Since the US EPA set limits on Disinfection ...
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Municipal water pricing and tariff design: a reform agenda for South Asia
The water tariffs currently in use in most cities in South Asia are not accomplishing their principal objectives. They are not generating sufficient revenues to ensure that utilities can recover their financial costs. They are not sending the correct economic signals to households, i.e., that water is scarce and must be treated as a valuable commodity. They are not helping the majority of the ...
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A primer on energy efficiency for municipal water and wastewater utilities
This primer is concerned with energy use and efficiency of network-based water supply and wastewater treatment in urban areas. It focuses on the supply side of the municipal water cycle, including the extraction, treatment, and distribution of water, and collection and treatment of wastewater-activities which are directly managed by Water and Wastewater Utilities (WWUs). The main challenges to ...
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From biofilm ecology to reactors: a focused review
Biofilms are complex biostructures that appear on all surfaces that are regularly in contact with water. They are structurally complex, dynamic systems with attributes of primordial multicellular organisms and multifaceted ecosystems. The presence of biofilms may have a negative impact on the performance of various systems, but they can also be used beneficially for the treatment of water ...
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Latest Ransomware Threatens Municipal Water Treatment
Ransomware seems like it’s everywhere in the news lately. Ransomware is software that installs itself on a computer, often when the user opens a seemingly harmless email attachment. Once installed, the ransomware blocks access to critical files and data until the user meets the demands of the person remotely controlling the ransomware. This usually involves a cash payment. A widely reported ...
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The Emerging Role of Augmented Reality in Wastewater Treatment
Municipal water systems are always looking for ways to increase efficiency. Embracing new technology can lead to fewer service disruptions, lower emergency repair costs, and a better customer experience. Augmented reality tools will change how water utilities approach maintenance, training, and customer relations. ...
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