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The Great Lakes Water Utility Energy Challenge Launches!
The Great Lakes Protection Fund and American Water Works Association are excited to announce the launch of the Water Utility Energy Challenge (WUEC), an innovative program which engages water operators in a competition to reduce the emissions sourced in their energy generation. The competition is aimed at connecting the utilities with new innovative software while fostering an awareness of the ...
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NACWA Applauds Final Omnibus Spending Bill, Encourages Swift Passage
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) applauds Congressional negotiators for reaching final agreement on an omnibus FY 2016 federal spending package, and encourages its swift passage by both the House and the Senate. The bill includes a number of important priorities for the municipal clean water community, including robust funding levels for the Clean Water State Revolving ...
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An estimated 11,000 water professionals gather in Philadelphia to make a `better world through better water`
The 136th American Water Works Association Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE17) began today, bringing an estimated 11,000 water professionals to Philadelphia to confront the many challenges facing the water sector. During a packed opening general session at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, AWWA President Jeanne Bennett-Bailey acknowledged the water utility professionals, technology ...
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Find out our latest technologies during WEFTEC 2015, Chicago
At the moment LG Sonic is attending WEFTEC Chicago, world’s largest water quality exhibition, to show their latest innovation to control algae, the MPC-Buoy. The MPC-Buoy is a floating solar-powered system that allows to effectively control harmful algal blooms in large water surfaces, such as lakes and drinking water reservoirs. LG Sonic’s booth is located in the Netherlands Pavilion ...
By LG Sonic
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Wastewater upgrade reduces phosphorus runoff in Danish Lake District
Following heavy rain overloading the combined sewer systems, diluted raw sewage can potentially overflow to nearby lakes, rivers and seas. Previous solutions have included separating rainwater and sewage, or the establishment of detention ponds, but these require significant investment. In a move that could reduce phosphorus discharged into the environmentally sensitive “Swan Lake” ...
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Official Announcement of First Dutch Algae Control Project with MPC-Buoy
Today (Dec 10, 2015) LG Sonic, the municipality of Zoetermeer, and water board Rijnland officially announced a collaboration project to monitor and control algal blooms in recreational lake the Noord Aa. For this project four MPC-Buoy systems will be installed before the summer of 2016. This environmentally friendly system controls toxic algal blooms by using ultrasound technology. It will be the ...
By LG Sonic
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Award for innovative approach to control algae with ultrasound technology
LG Sonic, a Dutch manufacturer of algae control systems, received an award for their innovative approach to control algae with ultrasound technology. The annual “Going the Extra Mile” (GEM) awards were hosted by Northumbrian Water, a UK Water Utility company supplying water in both the north and south of England. The event took place at the Beamish Hall on Thursday 25 June 2015. The ...
By LG Sonic
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Lake Massabesic Water Treatment Plant achieves highest level of plant performance
Manchester Water Works Lake Massabesic Water Treatment Plant received the rarely achieved Phase IV "Excellence in Water Treatment" recognition from the Partnership for Safe Water. This program is a national volunteer initiative developed by the USEPA and other water organizations representing water suppliers striving to provide their communities with drinking water quality that surpasses the ...
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LG Sonic and American Water Announce Innovative Partnership to Monitor and Control Algal Blooms
American Water, America’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, and LG Sonic, a Dutch manufacturer of algae control systems, today announced it has formed a partnership to perform ultrasonic algae control in water treatment plants. This makes LG Sonic the first European company that succeeded to become a certified innovation partner of American Water. Reduction of ...
By LG Sonic
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Clean Water Action Congratulates Detroit Water Activists, Calls for Legislative Action to End Water Shut-offs
The following statement can be attributed to Mary Brady-Enerson, Michigan Director, Clean Water Action: “Today, Mayor Mike Duggan announced a moratorium on water shut-offs for non-payment until the end of 2022. We applaud the decades of activism by so many, including Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, Peoples Water Board Coalition, We the People of Detroit, and other water warriors, who ...
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American Water and LG Sonic Receive Award for Chemical-Free Algae Control
American Water, America’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, and LG Sonic, a Dutch manufacturer of algae control systems, received a Business Achievement Award from the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) yesterday for the installation of four solar-powered algae control buoys (MPC-Buoys) in a drinking water reservoir at the Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in ...
By LG Sonic
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EPA to approve California’s newest list of impaired waterways
More than 40,000 miles of California’s rivers and streams are currently threatened by pollution, according to a list of impaired waterways submitted by the state to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Monitoring of rivers, lakes and coastal waters in California continue to show harmful pollutant levels, based on updates to the list from three of the state’s nine regional Water ...
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Greeley, Colo. wins “Best of the Best” Tap Water Taste Test
The American Water Works Association announced today that the City of Greeley, Colo., has won the thirteenth annual “Best of the Best” Tap Water Taste Test. The event, composed of regional winners from water-tasting competitions across North America, was held at AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE17) in Philadelphia, Pa. Second place in the taste test went to ...
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LG Sonic invited to provide seminar about algae control during water quality conference in Portland, USA
LG Sonic is invited to present and exhibit during the Water Quality Technology Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA. This conference provides a practical forum for a wide range of water technology professionals to exchange the latest research and information. At the exhibition, LG Sonic will showcase its latest technologies to control algal blooms in lakes and reservoirs. Cyanobacteria, also ...
By LG Sonic
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Global TAG Excellence Award for LG Sonic’s Ultrasonic Algae Control Technology
During the Global TAG conference LG Sonic received an award for the successful development and commercialization of the MPC-Buoy, an environmentally system to monitor and control harmful algal blooms with the use of ultrasonic technology. The Global TAG conference and awards event took place on the 26th April 2015 at the InterContinental Hotel Athenaeum in Athens, Greece. Event participants ...
By LG Sonic
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LG Sonic and American Water Announce innovative partnership to monitor and control algal blooms
American Water, America’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, and LG Sonic, a Dutch manufacturer of algae control systems, today announced it has formed a partnership to perform ultrasonic algae control in water treatment plants. This makes LG Sonic the first European company that succeeded to become a certified innovation partner of American Water. Reduction of ...
By LG Sonic
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Historic agreement on improving Lake Tahoe clarity signed by California and Nevada governors
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein today hosted the 15th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit, at which California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld signed a roadmap to return the lake to almost 100 feet of clarity within 65 years. The water clarity of Lake Tahoe declined from a visibility level of 105 feet in 1967 to an all time ...
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New Jersey DEP funds data-driven technology to solve algae issues in Echo Lake, City of Newark
These blooms are a pressing threat to the water quality of lakes and drinking water reservoirs, resulting in closures of beaches, and causing economic losses in the tourism industry. To solve these algal blooms problems, the City of Newark will use LG Sonic technology. “Identifying new and effective ways to address the growing number of occurrences of harmful algal blooms is a public ...
By LG Sonic
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EEA reviews new findings from 2012, the Year of Water
Europe needs to work harder to protect its water resources from increasing pressures. This was one of the messages that emerged during 2012, ‘European Year of Water’. The European Environment Agency (EEA) also presented important findings in many other areas, including air, climate, biodiversity and chemicals. What did we learn about water in 2012? Europe needs to redouble efforts ...
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Black & Veatch water professionals to share global insights at AWWA`s ACE09
Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, will be well represented at the American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference and Exposition, June 14-18 in San Diego, Calif. Water experts from the company are leading or participating in the development of 30 presentations, which will focus on such topics as innovative water supply strategies, energy ...
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