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Oct 21, 2013
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Mayor Bloomberg Announces Completion and Activation of Manhattan Portion of City's Third Water Tunnel
Beginning 43 Years Ago, Water Tunnel No. 3 is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of New York City. Opening of Tunnel No. 3 will reduce dependence on City Water Tunnel No. 1, allowing inspection and maintenance for the first time since it was built in 1917.
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Oct 18, 2013
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Aegion Corporation Awarded $10.7 Million Sewer Rehabilitation Contract from Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
Aegion Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Insituform Technologies, LLC, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $10.7 million from the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.
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Oct 17, 2013
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50 Ideas for sustainable cities
Fraunhofer's Morgenstadt: City Insights innovation network has analyzed six pioneering cities.
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Oct 16, 2013
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New ROVVER X-SAT from Envirosight Inspects Sewer Laterals from Mainline
Envirosight's new maneuverable launcher with pan/tilt camera helps diagnose lateral blockages and find gas line cross bores.
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Oct 15, 2013
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Aquatech Innovation Award Nominees Unveiled
The day after the winner of the previous Aquatech innovation award was announced questions were asked in the Dutch parliament as to why the fish-friendly pump by Pentair Nijhuis was not being more widely used in the Netherlands. The global media also picked up the story and this impressive innovation received the recognition it deserved.
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Oct 14, 2013
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MWH Joins The Value of Water Coalition
Statistics have shown that the average U.S. citizen is not as well informed when it comes to the aging infrastructure in the United States as well as the nation's water quality. Because much of the country’s water infrastructure is underground and not in plain sight … the old adage, “out of sight, out of mind” resonates.
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Oct 11, 2013
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Final breakthrough at the Hallandsas Tunnel marks an outstanding pioneering achievement
The unshakable will of clients, powerful construction companies and innovative tunnelling technology made it possible to deal with even the greatest challenges in tunnel construction. This is demonstrated by the successful completion of tunnelling work at the Hallandsås Tunnel in Sweden.
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Oct 09, 2013
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Itron Installs Millionth UK Water Communication Module with Yorkshire Water
Itron, Inc. announced that it has deployed one million water communication modules in the UK and Ireland. The one millionth module was installed for Yorkshire Water as part of a contract to deploy Automated Meter Reading (AMR) services for residential and commercial customers.
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Oct 08, 2013
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Panama to improve water and sanitation services in central and western provinces with an IDB loan
Panama will continue improving, rehabilitating and expanding its water and sanitation services in central and western provinces with the Water and Sanitation Multiphase Investment Program, a $54 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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Oct 07, 2013
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More Green Energy in Sri Lanka with HOBAS GRP
The vibrant small hydro power industry in Sri Lanka saw a further green accomplishment in the south of the country approximately 2 km from Dehilanda in Wellawaya at the river Kuda Oya. With a capacity of 1.2 MW and approximately 5.7 GWh output per year, which will be fed into the national grid of Sri Lanka Water, the hydropower plant will supply for about 6000 households. The owner, the private company Wellawaya Hydro Power Pvt Ltd, opted for a sustainable and environmentally sane penstock solution with HOBAS CC-GRP Pipes.
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Oct 04, 2013
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Ultrasonic Sewer Flow Monitor Specialist Attains International Quality Standard
Detectronic, the sewer flow survey instrumentation specialist, has achieved ISO9001:2008 accreditation from the internationally recognised Sira Certification Service.
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Oct 02, 2013
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Lasers offer an automated way to test drinking water
To keep drinking water clean, experts are constantly monitoring our supply to check it for contaminants. Now laser technology will give them a helping hand: a new system automatically analyzes water samples at the waterworks itself.
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Oct 01, 2013
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Smart water infrastructure could save emerging market countries $12.3 billion annually
Water scarcity is a growing problem across the globe, compounded by climate change and population growth. All signs indicate that this scarcity will only continue to grow more severe, even potentially leading to conflict between nations. An incredible 38% of all water produced in emerging market countries is lost to leakage from poor infrastructure, waste, and theft. Smart infrastructure aimed at addressing this problem could prove to be the most significant solution to water scarcity and has the potential to save $12.3 billion each year if fully implemented.
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Sep 30, 2013
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Pump-Storage Power Plant Nant de Drance: Machine Trio from Herrenknecht on a successful Course
Currently, the new Nant de Drance pumped-storage power plant with a planned capacity of 900MW is under construction in the Swiss canton of Valais. Machines from Herrenknecht are excavating both an access tunnel and vertical shafts. While the successful completion of the tunnelling work was already celebrated, the shaft construction machines are still in operation.
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Sep 27, 2013
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Massive waste water tunnel for Glasgow
Scottish Water is to build a 3.1 mile-long waste water tunnel in the south of Glasgow as part of the biggest upgrade of the city’s waste water network in more than a century.
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Sep 26, 2013
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Middlesex Water Subsidiary Awarded Water Privatization Contract for Dover Air Force Base System
Middlesex Water Company (Nasdaq:MSEX), a provider of water, wastewater and related services, today announced it has entered into an agreement through its subsidiary, Tidewater Utilities, Inc. with the U.S. Department of Defense for the privatization of the water system of Dover Air Force Base (DAFB) in Dover, Delaware.
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Sep 24, 2013
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Japanese Minister awards Spiral-Wound rehabilitation project in Ansbach, Germany
Special requirements of the sewer rehabilitation in the city of Ansbach, Germany, made the SPR™ product the perfect solution. SEKISUI SPR Europe was instructed by AWEAN, who is responsible for the wastewater disposal of Ansbach, to renew 220 m of an egg-shaped sewer with diameter of 1200/1600 mm.
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Sep 23, 2013
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Watertech 2013 garners tremendous government and industry association support
Facilitating relationship and partnership building for the emerging water and wastewater treatment market, and to promote water conservation, recycling and reuse, Messe Frankfurt is organising Watertech 2013, a showcase of sustainable technologies, innovative products and best practices in the water and wastewater management and treatment industry.
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Sep 20, 2013
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Tunneling and gallery techniques
Breakthrough of the final tunnel at Hallandsås in Sweden
Does the name Hallandsås mean anything to you? Ask a tunnel specialist about it. He will explain to you why this project, taken over in 2002 by the joint venture involving Skanska (60%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (40%), following two previous aborted attempts, is one of the best known among underground construction professionals throughout the world.
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Sep 19, 2013
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Ditch Witch RT120 Quad Introduced
The Ditch Witch organization introduces the RT120 Quad, a utility tractor with the power, heavy-duty frame and traction necessary for long installations of large-diameter pipe on the most challenging jobsites.
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Sep 18, 2013
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American Water Named to Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index For Second Consecutive Year
American Water, the nation's largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, has been named to the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI), the second consecutive year the company received this honor.
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Sep 17, 2013
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Arid Cities in People's Republic of China to Improve Water Management
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), one of the poorest and most remote regions in northwestern People’s Republic of China (PRC), will use a $200 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to improve water availability through wastewater reuse and better water resources management.
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Sep 16, 2013
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New methods for laying the pipeline Haute de France II
MAX STREICHER GmbH & Co. KG aA is laying 51.7 kilometres of pipeline on behalf of GRTgaz
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Sep 16, 2013
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Water and wastewater modernisation in Dolj
The EU Cohesion Fund and the EBRD are joining forces to modernise and upgrade the water and wastewater services in Dolj, a county in the south of Romania.
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