December 2008 Welcome to Water IDeaS, Your Weekly Newsletter from Industry IDS  
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Water World News
Aqua-Pure Ventures Signs Contract for Water with City of Weatherford
This water will be used to replace potable water with recycled water for drilling and completions in the Barnett Shale area. This is one of the critical elements required to complete the `Parker County Water Supply Pipeline` project.
Purfresh Achieves Water Milestone
Purfresh`s science-based ozone solutions for water purification and disinfection provides bottlers, and pharmaceutical and personal care companies with completely integrated systems to efficiently treat water used in their operations.
Dow to Make Chennai Centre a Design Hub
Dow Chemicals International Pvt. Ltd., the Indian arm of the $54 billion U.S. headquartered multinational company, is betting big on making the engineering support centre in Chennai into a design hub for Dow across the globe.
Toray, China BlueStar Establish Water Treatment JV in China
The new company will be established in May 2009 with a capital of 35 million U.S. dollars (approximately 3.5 billion yen), and engage in production, sales, and import and export of water treatment membrane products.
Product and Technology Updates
Cashew Nut Extract Developed as Alternative Water Softener
Researchers from the FPRDI found that liquid from cashew nut shell or CNSL, can be converted into a biopolymer resin, to soften the water fed into boilers in different industries.
ABB Australia Expand Water Analyser Range with New Colorimetric Monitors
The Aztec 600 Iron, Aluminium and Manganese analysers can measure up to six samples per hour. Key features of the Aztec 600 analyser range include automatic two point calibration.
ORC Launches New Look Water Info Website
Many people use the Water Info website, especially farmers and engineers and it is of greatest interest in times of flood or drought.
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Evaluation of Preservation and Holding Time for Pesticides, Socs, and Vocs
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Company :  MWH Laboratories
EPA Methods such as 524.2 and 525.2 have specified preservation and holding time conditions for compliance monitoring, but there are clear inconsistencies between various analytical method specifications. When shipping from outside the conterminous USA, there are difficulties in either maintaining sample temperatures during shipment, or regulatory constraints limiting the ability to use hazardous substances such as acids in preservation.
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Our newsletter sponsor for this week is MWH Laboratories, which specializes in a broad range of water, and wastewater tests analyzing.

A recent study done by the Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), found cashew nut extract as an alternative water softener. Water softening is an important process, because the hardness of water in different applications is reduced during this process.

For more updates, read the next issue of Water IDeaS.

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