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Water News
MWH Soft Australia 2008 Water/Wastewater Seminar Offers Packed Agenda
MWH Soft Australia 2008 Water/Wastewater Seminar Offers Packed Agenda
Widely considered to be the most comprehensive and significant infrastructure modeling and management technology seminar of its kind, the event will be held from April 28-29, 2008.
ConocoPhillips to Establish Water Sustainability Center
ConocoPhillips to Establish Water Sustainability Center
Water Sustainability Center (WSC) in Qatar will examine ways of treating and using the derivative water from oil production and refining operation.
GE and Eureka Forbes Create Clean Water Joint Venture
GE and Eureka Forbes Create Clean Water Joint Venture
Infinite Water Solutions will build India`s largest residential water purification membrane manufacturing facility in Dehradun.
Southern California Water Supply Challenges Considered in $1.9 Billion Spending Plan
Southern California Water Supply Challenges Considered in $1.9 Billion Spending Plan
The board also approved a 9.8 percent increase in the district`s base wholesale water rate, as well as a special surcharge to purchase additional supplies.
Product Launches
Trojan Introduces Cheap Ultraviolet Water Purifiers
Competition in the region`s multi-million bottled water industry has intensified with the entrance of Trojan Technologies, which uses portable ultraviolet technology to purify water.
Picarro Launches New Isotopic Water Vapor Analyzer
The analyzer is based on the company`s exclusive implementation of cavity ring down spectroscopy (CRDS) technology, originally developed at Stanford University.
Range of Water Transfer Pumps Available from Australian Pump Industries
Australian Pump Industries has developed a range of 3`` and 4`` engine drive water transfer pumps, that are designed to move large quantities of water fast, with the minimum of fuel consumption.
Environment`s Take on Water
Green-Technology Exporter Wins Kudos
Globe Foundation honors Vancouver company for innovative system that cleans up tainted water at mines around the world.
Saskatchewan`s Largest Solar Hot Water System Installed by Suncatcher Solar Homes
The Confederation Inn Saskatoon is leading the way in renewable energy with the largest commercial solar hot water system in Saskatchewan, and one of the largest in Canada.
WSC Secures $250M Commitment for Environmentally Responsible Desalination Process
Using on-board power generation that can provide environmental and cost advantages while being independent of a land-based power grid, WSC offers a drought proof, renewable source of water.
TU Delft Tests Windmill for Seawater Desalination
A traditional windmill drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands.
Editorial

Water resource challenges can be met and overcome by exploring options on re-using and recycling resources that are available.

Water Standard Company (WSC) has announced that it has received commitments of up to $250 million in equity to develop its Seawater Desalination Vessels, whose environmentally focused technology can help ease the world`s growing water crisis, and bring needed water to disaster-stricken areas.

BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc., won an industry award for their water-treatment plants. It designs and operates at mines around the world, using a proprietary system that removes acid and heavy metals from runoff water leeching from mine sites.

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), has developed a traditional windmill which drives a high-pressure pump that pushes water through a membrane. This reverse osmosis membrane produces fresh water from seawater directly.

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