The Kentucky County Where the Water Smells Like Diesel
(CNN)For the past 20 years, Hope Workman has hustled up a dirt path on the side of a mountain in Lovely, Kentucky, just to get drinking water. She doesn't trust what comes out of her tap. If she's by herself, she'll take her ATV. If one of her daughters is coming along, they take their four-wheel-drive truck. It takes her about seven minutes to grind up the hill before she reaches her destination: a small plastic well tapped into the side of the mountain with a 3½-foot PVC pipe. ...
SipRadius Deploys Prototype Hydrogen Peroxide Well Water Treatment System
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., April 5, 2018 - SipRadius, a developer of media software and GenerGeo brand green hardware announced deployment of the first prototype of its Hydrogen Peroxide injection Well Water Treatment Kit system. Though productization has not yet finished, unique features include a selectable solution strength for the H2O2, a redundant hazmat grade outer container, and management/reporting/supply re-ordering via mobile phone application. Sergio Ammirata, SipRadius Managing Director...
Bluewater Says Million Dollar Urban Drinking Water Scarcity Challenge is Geared to Find Solutions to Clean Drinking Water Scarcity
Stockholm, Sweden, March 22, 2018 –– As the world celebrates World Water Day, Bluewater, a world leader in innovative water purification technologies, announces a global million dollar urban drinking water scarcity challenge geared to identify and deploy entrepreneurial solutions to tackle clean drinking water issues in mega-cities across the planet. Bluewater says the initiative is designed to address urban drinking water scarcity challenges in a world where the UN predicts some 5.7 billion peo...
Frost & Sullivan Embraces World Water Day 2018 by Sharing 4 Promising Technologies Inspired by Nature
With global water requirements increasing to 40% by 2030, according to Frost & Sullivan, now is the time to commit to ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water. Mounting environmental awareness and water stress challenges have pushed many to seek viable, energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions to address the growing issue of water security. On World Water Day 2018 Frost & Sullivan explores this year’s theme, “Nature for Water,” by acknowledging the influence and inspira...
Kimberly-Clark and Deltares Launch Innovative Tool for Sustainable Water Management
DALLAS, March 22, 2018 - On World Water Day, attention is focused on the global risk of water scarcity due to increased demand and the effects of climate change. To address this challenge, Kimberly-Clark Corporation has partnered with research firm Deltares to launch WaterLoupe, an interactive, web-based tool to monitor local freshwater supplies and consumption trends and generate actionable insights to mitigate local water risks. WaterLoupe tracks data on social, economic and climate factors...
EU Bank Contributes Financial and Technical Support to Provide Clean Drinking Water for More Than 2 Million People in Gaza
At a high-level pledging conference in Brussels today (20 March), the EIB has signed a letter of intent confirming its support for the Gaza Desalination Programme. This includes a EUR 7.1m technical assistance grant for the Palestinian Water Authority, backed by the European Commission. The EIB will launch the tendering procedure for the provision of technical assistance on 15 April. On this occasion, EIB Vice-President Dario Scannapieco, who is responsible for the Economic Resilience Initiat...
Bluewater and 11th Hour Racing Partner with Imagine H2O to Launch
San Francisco – Bluewater, a world leader in drinking water technologies and solutions, and 11th Hour Racing, a US organization that establishes strategic partnerships to promote collaborative, systemic change benefitting the health of our ocean, today launched a global innovation competition to address urban drinking water scarcity challenges. The program, launched under the Imagine H2O’s Global Water Accelerator Program, will have a financial commitment up to a total USD1 million in deploym...
Kenyan Capital’s Severe Water Shortage Threatens Most Marginalized
- Many of Kenya’s nearly 49 million inhabitants do not have access to improved water resources, with 41% dependent on rivers, ponds and wells with low water levels. In addition, 59% of the population are reliant on unimproved sanitation facilities. - In Africa, more than 60% of people live in slum conditions without access to clean water and sanitation. - Nearly half a million marginalized households in Nairobi do not have enough water to meet their basic needs....
Arkansas City Dedicates New 5.4 MGD Water Treatment Facility
With capacity to easily expand to 6.3 MGD, the new plant provides a stable and secure source of drinking water for Arkansas City, a community of 12,000 located in south-central Kansas and surrounding customers. The new $22 million plant was built at a cost of $4 million under the original budget. In addition, advanced technology will enable the plant to achieve annual operations and maintenance cost savings of 20 percent under costs of the existing city water treatment facility that had been...
Momentum Grows for the North I-90 Odessa Aquifer Groundwater Replacement Project in Washington State
MOSES LAKE, Wash. - Groups have formed and progress is being made regarding a solution/project to help deep well irrigators/farmers in the declining Odessa Aquifer north of I-90 and east of Moses Lake in Washington State. The solution is to provide surface water from the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District's "East Low Canal" by utilizing new canal turnouts infrastructure, new pump stations located at various locations along the Canal. This project, known as the "North I-90 Odessa Aquifer G...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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