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News Archive 2010December13/12/10 Satellite data provide a new way to monitor groundwater in agricultural regions 08/12/10 World Water Day 2011: Urban Water Management The objective of World Water Day 2011 (March 22nd) is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems. 01/12/10 Grontmij Wins Harbour Extension Project Grontmij has won a contract with the Port of Hanstholm, Denmark, for a major expansion of the port. The Port of Hanstholm wishes to expand its position as the leading fishing port in Denmark and as a cargo hub for north-west Denmark. In addition the Port of Hanstholm will become a ferry port with connections to the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Scotland. » more 01/12/10 Innovation Fund for Water and Waste Technologies Suez Environnement is launching Blue Orange, its innovation investment fund to accompany the commercial and industrial development of fledgling firms developing innovative technologies in the environmental services sector and more specifically water and waste management. » mehr November30/11/10 Mittel-management: Germany's midsized companies have a lot to teach the world Management gurus are constantly scouring the world for the next big idea. Thirty years ago they fixated on Japan. Today it is India. The more restless are already moving on to Peruvian or Zulu management. Yet in all this intellectual globe-trotting the gurus have sorely neglected the secrets of one of the world's great economies. Germany is the world's largest goods exporter after China despite high labour costs and a strongish euro. » more 16/11/10 Businesses Get New Blueprint for Managing Water Risks 09/11/10 World Bank/MEXICO: US$100 Million to Improve Water Utilities Efficiency 05/11/10 Arab world faces worsening water crisis The Arab world, one of the driest regions on the planet, will tip into severe water scarcity as early as 2015, a report issued on Thursday predicts. By then, Arabs will have to survive on less than 500 cubic metres of water a year each, or below a tenth of the world average of more than 6,000 cubic metres per capita, said the report by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED). » more 04/11/10 Now released: Doing Business Report 2011 04/11/10 Desalination race Lifts Ancient African Infrastructure 02/11/10 inge watertechnologies AG eyes growth potential of Russian water market inge watertechnologies AG has been an active market player in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for a number of years. The Germany-based global technology leader has installed its ultrafiltration modules in more than 20 large-scale facilities involved in the treatment of drinking water, waste water and industrial process water and the pretreatment of seawater. Russia is a country with comparatively large water resources, yet it still views water as a valuable commodity. » more 02/11/10 Water Convention 2011: Call for papers closes Nov 21st In line with the Singapore International Water Week 2011 theme, the Water Convention will address a myriad of issues related to a changing urban environment, covering emerging topics such as climate change, water issues in the developing world, funding models for infrastructure and emerging water quality challenges. The presentations will examine practical applications of technological solutions, management strategies and planning and financial models to solve water problems specifically in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East regions. Water Convention Programme Committee invites all leaders in the respective fields to submit abstracts in the following themes for Water Convention 2011. » more 01/11/10 Americans Ready to Fix Crumbling Water Infrastructure ITT Corporation, USA, has announced the results of its Value of Water Survey, a nationwide poll that included registered voters and industrial and agricultural businesses, and measures how the public values water and their level of awareness of the nation's aging water infrastructure. The results show that a majority of the American public desires reform and is willing to pay more to ensure that they have access to clean water in the generations to come. » more October29/10/10 Export Agriculture Drains Latin America’s Water Supplies A recent study by the development charity Progressio found that asparagus production in Peru’s arid Ica Valley is depleting local aquifers so fast that water wells are running dry, the Guardian reports. 27/10/10 Looming Asian Water Crisis Requires Billions in Annual Improvements, ADB Says Shrinking glaciers and drying rivers threaten to leave Asia with 40 percent less water than it needs in as few as 20 years, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). 22/10/10 IWRM Karlsruhe 2010 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Karlsruhe 2010 is focussing on how problems related to access to drinking water can be resolved and how to establish a basis for new technologies and models. According to United Nations estimates, more than two billion people in over 40 countries are affected by water shortages and more than 900 million people around the world have no direct access to drinking water. » more 22/10/10 MWH to conduct feasibility study for major Lebanon water project 22/10/10 U.S. desal market to top $3.3 billion by 2016 18/10/10 Report Assesses ‘Produced Water’ Treatment Along with the crude oil and natural gas that fuels modern civilisation, the energy industry brings nearly 233 billion barrels of wastewater from beneath the earth’s surface every year. Lux Research surveys the challenges associated with treating ‘produced water’, and identifies which technologies and developers are best positioned to address the task. » more 18/10/10 Asia Needs to Produce More Food with Less Water Asia’s ageing irrigation systems must be revitalised to produce more crops with less water in the face of the region’s surging demand for food (a 70 – 90% increase to 2030), a rising population and stressed water resources, say researchers at the Water: Crisis and Choices (Asian Development Bank and Partners) Conference 2010. » more 13/10/10 Presentation of Huber Technology Prize at IFAT 2010 "New solutions to old problems" was the subject of this year's Technology Prize "Future Water" which is anually awarded by Huber Technology foundation. The first price was awarded to Dr. Paritam Kumar Dutta from Advanced Water Management Centre of the University of Queensland, Australia. The focus of his proposal lay on the development of an energy-efficient process to remove sulfide from waste water and its recovery as a valuable material. » more 12/10/10 Groundwater Evaluation Platform 12/10/10 Bridging Waters: Water for Peace This film is the first documentary of a four-part documentary series which was filmed over a 15 months period in 2009 and 2010 in southern Africa. Each documentary highlights the importance of transboundary water management in the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region. Because more than 70 percent of all water allocated to the various economic sectors and uses in the SADC region emanates from shared river basins. 11/10/10 Dry Future in Booming China For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. However, China’s style of economic growth is pushing the country towards a water crisis. Water pollution is rampant nationwide and water scarcity has worsened severely in north China. » more 11/10/10 EPA Issues Sustainability Policy The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Sustainability Policy with the goal of increasing the sustainability of water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States. The new policy is part of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priority to protect America’s waters.» more 08/10/10 GE 2010 WateReuse Equipment Manufacturer of the Year 07/10/10 China’s Climate Emissions Are Global Issue, But Water Scarcity Is Greater Domestic Priority Little reported is the fact that China’s rising energy demand, the fastest in the world, is colliding with its rapidly declining supply of fresh water. China, the world’s third driest country, has roughly 163 trillion gallons of water available for all uses, according to a study released in December 2009 by McKinsey’s 2030 Water Resources Group. About 63 percent is used by farmers, down from 85 percent in 1980, according to China’s Water Ministry. Municipal and domestic use has been stable at around 12 percent, and industry uses 23 percent; 80 percent of that is used to operate and cool China’s 10,000 coal-burning generating units at 550 power plants. » more 06/10/10 Water reuse roundtables yield recommendations for overcoming global barriers Dan McCarthy, President and CEO of Black & Veatch's global water business, today posted four key recommendations for overcoming global barriers to reuse of water as part of an integrated water industry portfolio. High-level roundtable discussions with approximately 75 water industry thought leaders at or during six major global conferences yielded the recommendations as well as actions and processes to help the water industry overcome identified barriers to water reuse. » more September 30/09/10 Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity 27/09/10 Asian Development Bank supports twinnings Exemplary water utilities are being tapped to help the region’s developing utilities enhance their operational efficiency. ADB’s Water Operators Partnerships (WOPs) Program matches a stronger water and sanitation utility (expert) with a developing utility (recipient) to enable the latter to improve service coverage and delivery, financial sustainability, and other aspects of performance. There is no commercial motive in WOPs’ twinning; it is essentially a case of one utility helping out another. » more 22/09/10 IFAT ENTSORGA recognised as the world’s leading trade fair for environmental technology 21/09/10 Report: Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate 17/09/10 10 million Euros for Moldova Water Project Some 200,000 people in Moldova stand to benefit from a project to improve water supply and sanitation, co-financed through a €10 million loan from the European Investment Bank, as well as additional funds from the EU’s Neighbourhood Investment Facility and the EBRD. The project will help rehabilitate and extend water supply and sanitation systems in six towns and neighbouring villages of Moldova. » more 14/09/10 Integrated Water Management Essential » more 07/09/10 Innovation for world wide water management 06/09/10 Rising tide of acid mine water threatens Johannesburg A toxic tide of acid mine water is rising steadily beneath Johannesburg which, if left unchecked, could cause earth tremors, power blackouts and even cancer among residents, experts have warned. The water is currently around 600 metres below the city’s surface but is rising at a rate of between 0.4 and 0.9 metres per day, meaning it could overflow onto the streets in just under a year and a half. » more 04/09/10 Thirsty Foreigners soak up Scarce Water Rights International investors are circling Australia's water market, looking to snap up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of our most precious national resource, with almost no government limit on how much they can buy. Foreign investors have already bought millions of litres of water rights in our most strategic food-producing areas and are poised to buy more after the massive shake-out tipped to occur when the long-awaited Murray-Darling Basin plan is released. » more 03/09/10 Wastewater Remediation Technology E3 Technologies, a new firm based in Athens, Ohio, will develop an Ohio University invention called the GreenBox which is designed to clean commercial and agricultural wastewater and produce hydrogen energy. Referred to as ‘pee power', the GreenBox converts ammonia and urea in wastewater to hydrogen, nitrogen and pure water. » more 03/09/10 WEFTEC Sessions Spotlight New Orleans A lot has changed in New Orleans since 2004, when WEFTEC® last visited the city. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, worldwide media attention turned toward Louisiana and New Orleans to follow the rescue and recovery efforts. But in the 5 years since that disaster, away from the limelight of politics and social impacts, engineers have labored away quietly to put the city back together. » more 02/09/10 Multiplying the Yield of an Oasis Abu Dhabi may be a desert country, but its daily water consumption per person is higher than that in most places in the world, at about 650 liters, or 170 gallons. In the United States, for example, daily consumption is 300 liters per person, and in many European countries, it is less than half that. The desalinated water is used for golf courses, agriculture and car washes. As much as half is used to water public spaces. » more 02/09/10 Simply Flexible Photometer PF-12 - Compact COD Measuring Device Macherey-Nagel, an established German manufacturer of water testing systems, offers a complete system for the chemical oxygen demand (COD) analysis in municipal and industrial waste water. This includes high quality photometers, heating blocks for sample digestion and user-friendly tube tests. » more August18/08/10 How to turn seawater into jet fuel Faced with global warming and potential oil shortages, the US navy is experimenting with making jet fuel from seawater. Navy chemists have processed seawater into unsaturated short-chain hydrocarbons that with further refining could be made into kerosene-based jet fuel. But they will have to find a clean energy source to power the reactions if the end product is to be carbon neutral. » more 09/08/10 KSB expands India foundry KSB Group, a member of GWP, has increased the steel foundry capacity at its Vambori, India facility. By adding two new natural gas-fired furnaces, KSB has increased steel castings output from 300 tons to 1200 tons per year. » more July30/07/10 inge watertechnologies equips steel works with ultrafiltration technology GWP member company inge will provide the filter modules for a large seawater treatment plant which supplies water to a steel works in the Turkish city of Iskenderum on the Mediterranean. » more 08/07/10 UNESCO-IHP: New Book Series on Floods The Section of Hydrological Processes and Climate, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO-IHP has launched a new book series on floods as a contribution to the International Flood Initiative – IFI. The objective of the book series is to provide sound knowledge to the theory of flood disaster management and practice under the current climate change conditions. Best practices around the world and state of the art knowledge will be presented together with a set of computational tools for practical applications.
02/07/10 Vital River Is Withering, and Iraq Has No Answer The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix. Withered by decades of dictatorial mismanagement and then neglect, by drought and the thirst of Iraq’s neighbors, the river formed by the convergence of the Tigris and the Euphrates no longer has the strength to keep the sea at bay. » more June18/06/10 New sewage, drainage system planned in Equatorial Guinea 18/06/10 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate calls for fairer distribution of water funding 17/06/2010 Karameh dam desalination plant eases Jordan Valley water woes 17/06/2010 Bahrain plans to double water production by 2030 17/06/2010 Abu Dhabi launches region's first comprehensive framework for wastewater regulation 17/06/2010 Private players eye UAE water market Private utilities companies and environmental analysts, thirsting to tap into the water market, are calling for greater privatisation of water provision services in the UAE. (Published by Gulf News, 03 June, 2010) » more 14/06/2010 WABAG to complete €10 million order to upgrade water treatment plant The order involves the modernisation of the process water treatment plant at the Prunerov power station in Bohemia. » more 08/06/2010 Australia seeks to align mining and water interests May07/05/2010 Environmental Flows Report on the Rehabilitation of the Lower Jordan River April16/04/2010 Georgia: Water supply development in urban centers As Giorgi Kiziria, chief coordinator officer in permanent representation of Asian Development Bank (ADB), declared to Sarke, preparatory works should be conducted through ADB grant within the project on water supply system development in the urban centers. The bank approved to allot grant of $2 million in March 2010. As Kiziria noted, ADB is going to allot at least $300 million for the project in total. Neither exact sum nor interest rate is determined at this stage. To note, Georgian United Water Supply Company supposes that ADBs credit would reach $500 million. Negotiations on the subject are at the final stage and credit is expected by the end of 2010 or by the beginning of 2011. March13/03/2010 Water demand predicted in Abu Dhabi for the next 20 years 11/03/10 Morocco: Successful Reforms in Water and Sanitation 11/03/10 Iraq: Project to Address the Shortage in Potable Water Supply Since January 2010 people in Al Samawa (South Iraq) are provided with clean drinking water. The water treatment plant is the largest completed water project in Iraq in terms of amount and capacity since the 90s and reaches over 250,000 individuals. » more 01/03/10 EU to realign development aid towards water With the UN Millennium Development Goals set to be reviewed this year, the European Commission is stressing the need for an increased focus on access to water, as the achievement of other UN development goals depends on it. » more January25/01/10 Philippines: Methane Recovery from Waste Management Project The Philippines produces 14 million tons of solid waste and 22 million tons of organic water pollution (biochemical oxygen demand) per year, numbers that are increasing steadily. Management of this waste and of its health and environmental impacts is a growing concern in the Philippines. Waste management processes also produce the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane, representing a significant source of greenhouse gases in the country. » more 18/01/10 Dubai economy forecast to shrink further in 2010 Dubai’s economy will shrink by 0.4 per cent in 2010 meaning the emirate will stay in recession for a second year after shrinking 5 per cent in 2009, according to the latest forecast by UAE-based Shuaa Capital. The bank is forecasting that the UAE as a whole will come out of the recession in 2010, with growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.5 per cent. The overall growth will be driven by Abu Dhabi’s economy, which is forecast to expand by 4.1 per cent in 2010 following a contraction of 2.7 per cent in 2009. » more 2009 December 200922/12/09 Sarajevo Waste Water Project The objective of the Sarajevo Waste Water Project for Bosnia and Herzegovina is to improve the living conditions of populations in the areas covered by the Sarajevo Water and Waste Water Company and in downstream riverside communities by: (a) reducing the populations' exposure to, and reliance on highly polluted water from the Miljacka and Bosna rivers; and (b) improving the efficiency of the waste water collection network in the Sarajevo Canton. There are three components to the project. » more November 2009 05/11/09 Aqwise named Israel's fastest growing technology company The first Cleantech company ever to win the competition, Aqwise was ranked first at the "Deloitte Technology Fast 50" awards competition. Aqwise, provider of advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions, was ranked first at the "Deloitte Technology Fast 50" competition for Israel 2009. The Fast 50 program, ranking the 50 fastest growing Israeli technology companies over a period of five years, is one of the leading ranking programs in the world, and was held by Deloitte Brightman, Almagor, Zohar in Israel for the 10th year in a row. » more 04/11/09 Water information technology market expected to grow By 2030, 47% of the world’s population could live in areas of high water stress, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Meanwhile, while water treatment technology and infrastructure improvements get lots of attention, some of the simplest solutions for managing water resources may arise through better information about water usage. » more October 2009 19/10/09 Pall Corporation to Present Desalination Process Improvements at First SEDA Microfiltration Workshop Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has been selected by the Southeast Desalting Association (SEDA) to present at the organization's first Microfiltration/Ultrafiltration Workshop. The workshop will take place during the 2009 Fall Operators Symposium in Miami, Florida, October 26-27. Tony Wachinski, Ph.D., senior vice president, Pall Water Processing, will represent the company on the panel, discussing the Pall Aria hollow fiber microfiltration membrane system for reverse osmosis (RO) pre-treatment. » more 19/10/09 September 200915/09/09 (World Bank) 14/09/09 Nalco (NLC) Trading Up Today After Positive Barron's Article Nalco (NYSE: NLC) is trading up approximately 3.85% to $19.15 after Barron's published a positive piece about the company over the weekend. 11/09/09 (EU-Commission) 10/09/09 (Los Angeles Times) August 2009 31/08/09 (Water World) 26/08/09 (Water World) 13/08/09 (Water World) 10/08/09 (EU-Commission) 04/08/09 July 200915/07/2009 April 200908/04/2009 (VietNamNet) March 200912/03/2009 February 200918/02/09
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