Texas Water Development Board Recognizes Innovative Water Solutions in San Antonio
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) highlighted the Tetra Tech-supported H2Oaks Center, a project to develop and sustain water supplies in San Antonio, on its website. Population and industrial growth, combined with three years of drought, exhausted the water supply available to many Texas communities and increased the need for innovative solutions to support long-term needs. One of the local utilities that leads the state in efforts to develop new water supplies and conserve existing su...
United Utilities Awards Contract for Wastewater Treatment System Upgrades to C2V+, a Joint Venture Comprising of CH2M and VolkerStevin
C2V+, a joint venture between CH2M and VolkerStevin has been awarded a contract to undertake major improvements as part of United Utilities’ £70m wastewater treatment system upgrade within the Morecambe Bay catchment. The upgrade work is required to comply with tighter regulation standards within Morecambe Bay set by the Environment Agency, which will be imposed from 2019. The work will help increase flow capacity to cater for future growth and development, reduce the number...
Heartland Technology Partners, LLC Announces Closing of New Investment and Changes Name to Heartland Water Technology, Inc.
BOSTON - Heartland Technology Partners, LLC, a global water technology company that develops innovative products to solve some of the world's most challenging waste water problems, today announced that the Company has closed a $12 million equity round. The Company's proprietary technology, the Heartland Concentrator™, has a 10-year track record of effectively treating Landfill Leachate, Power Plant FGD and CCR Pond Water, and O&G Produced Water and Frac Water. The Heartland Concentrator can deli...
Trimble Unity Smart Water Management Software Adds Wireless Monitoring to Streamline Utility Operations
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the latest version of its smart water management software—Trimble® Unity 3.8. Trimble Unity is a cloud-based, GIS-centric Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that offers a suite of applications and tools for the water, wastewater, storm water and environmental water industry. Trimble Unity enables customers to monitor real-time operations, deploy smart meters, assess the condition of assets, reduce leakage and non-revenue water (NRW),...
Woolpert Selected to Design Sewer Rehabilitation Project
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (April 10, 2017) — HRSD, a wastewater treatment utility that serves 18 cities and counties in southeastern Virginia, has selected Woolpert—a national architecture, engineering and geospatial firm—to provide study, design and administration services for a project to rehabilitate about one mile of sanitary sewer infrastructure in Newport News, Va. This project area includes 4,800 linear feet of gravity sewer pipeline and associated manholes along Jefferson Avenue from West Mer...
San Diego Water Resilience Project Wins Top Global Civil Engineering Award
A project to increase water system resilience for San Diego County residents has won the prestigious 2017 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Black & Veatch delivered construction project management and design service on two of the four key facilities of the Emergency and Carryover Storage Project (E&CSP), which provides the region with up to six months of emergency water storage. San Diego County Water Authority’s...
CH2M Sheds Light on Singapore’s Innovation in Water Conservation
In reflection of World Water Day, celebrated March 22, CH2M’s Subbu Kanakasabapthy, regional managing director for Asia Pacific shares how Singapore reuses its water in a video interview with CNBC Asia. PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, has long been a leader in water innovation, becoming a hub for mutually beneficial technology collaborations and exchanges as it shores up its own water security. Singapore overcame common challenges associated with water reuse projects, and developed NE...
American Organization to Provide Safe Water to Colombian Landslide Victims
Louisville, KY - On Saturday, April 1, a deadly landslide devastated Mocoa, Colombia, a town of 60,000 near the Ecuadorian border. More than 300 people are known to have died in the disaster, more than 100 are still missing and approximately 2,700 residents are living in shelters after heavy rains caused mud, rocks and water to engulf the town, sweeping away entire neighborhoods. Some areas remain without safe water and electricity, and police officers have been sent in to deter looters. ...
New Economical Environmentally Safe Corrosion Inhibitor For Multiple Applications- Powerful Concentrate Provides Maximum Effect In Low Dosages
VpCI®-649 BD is a unique, concentrated liquid formulation that protects ferrous and non-ferrous metals from corrosive solutions. In addition, this product is designed to provide long-term protection in fresh water, steam and glycol closed loop systems. VpCI®-649 BD also includes preservatives against biogrowth. It is effective as a replacement for nitrite/chromate-based formulations. The product combines contact and volatile corrosion inhibitors along with anti-scalants in a non-toxic formulatio...
Protect Plus Creates Municipal Water Division To Meet Lead Crisis Head On
HICKORY, N.C.- Protect Plus, a nationwide supplier of water and air filtration products, today announced the creation of a new Municipal Water Division to better service the needs of water municipalities facing the growing lead crisis. In the wake of the Flint, Michigan drinking water crisis, increased attention has focused on aging infrastructures in cities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates as many as 2,000 towns are facing similar problems. As a result, water...