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Walnut Creek, Calif. – Carollo Engineers, a California-based, water-focused consulting engineering firm, is pleased to announce its recent pledge of $150,000 toward a new Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) research initiative, led by the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF). Since July of 2012, the WRRF has raised more than $2.7 million toward the California DPR Initiative, which exists to help California meet its legislative and state-mandated DPR initiatives by 2016. DPR is a new approach to potable reuse. Ind...... continue reading
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New York March 7, 2013 The Standardization Administration of China (SAC), the Chinese member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in conjunction with the Standards Institution of Israel (SII), the Israeli member body to ISO, and the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC), the Japanese member body to ISO, has submitted a proposal for a new field of technical activity on water re-use. The proposal cancels and replaces a 2012 proposal regarding the creation of a new...... continue reading
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (Dec. 10, 2012) –– The Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) reached a major milestone yesterday when it marked 100 billion gallons of ultra-pure water produced since going on-line almost five years ago. The Orange County Water District (OCWD, District) operates the GWRS and manages Orange County’s groundwater basin. The GWRS, a joint project of the OCWD and Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD), takes highly treated wastewater and purifies it through a three-step process tha...... continue reading
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Denver, October 24, 2012 - CH2M HILL WaterMatch is collaborating with Net Impact to launch the new WaterMatch Makers University Program. This first-of-its-kind program channels the energy and creative thinking of students around the world onto water issues in their local communities. The students use social networking to connect people and promote water reuse. The WaterMatch Makers University Program will be officially launched on Saturday, October 27 at noon during the Net Impact Conference, to be held ...... continue reading
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—October 23, 2012—Amidst growing water scarcity and concern about the future availability and quality of water, a new GE (NYSE: GE) consumer survey unveiled today indicates that Americans strongly support reusing water to help the U.S. drive economic competitiveness and protect the environment. Despite the “ick factor” often associated with recycled water, two thirds of Americans (66 percent) feel positive about water reuse, according to the survey of 3,000 consumers in the U.S., China a...... continue reading
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By Guy Horowitz Like nearly every nation on the planet, the US is facing a water crisis. Old, rusted cast iron piping in cities and towns in the Northeast are at the end of their useful lives, fights and lawsuits over water rights in the desert Southwest are heating up, increasing numbers of pipe bursts around the nation are impacting often thousands of Americans each day, and network inefficiencies and more frequent droughts are resulting in water rationing in hard-hit areas. With access t...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Leaks and Audits, Resource-Management, Reuse
By Cindy Wallis-Lage Unlike Albert Einstein’s famous relativity equations or the Pythagorean Theorem, the water efficiency equation is neither famous nor constant. The specific factors and associated weights that determine water efficiency vary over time and even then are subjective. The best we can do to define the ever-evolving water efficiency equation and its corollary—the sustainability solution—is to share information about recognized factors. Conse...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Resource-Management, Reuse, Treatment
MIDLAND, Texas, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTC QB: STWS), a water reclamation services company, which has been operating a pilot program since March 19th, 2012 in the Permian Basin for eleven oil and gas producers, today announced that the results have met or exceeded the requirements of these producers for reclaiming twenty varying types of oilfield-produced and brackish water for use and re-use in oil and gas drilling and fracking operations. Through the knowledge gain...... continue reading
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TREVOSE, PA.—April 26, 2012— GE (NYSE: GE) today announced its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater recycling technology will be installed at the POSCO Cold Rolling Mill Steel Plant in Maharashtra, India in the second quarter of 2013. This marks the first steel mill application of a complete GE ZLD system containing electrodialysis reversal (EDR). Under the contracts signed between GE and Korean-based POSCO Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of POSCO, GE will supply a ZLD wastewater treatment syst...... continue reading
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LAKEWOOD, Calif., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The WateReuse California Association has awarded the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) its Recycled Water Agency of the Year - Large Award for 2012. This selection was made by the 2012 California Annual Conference Awards Sub-Committee members and the WateReuse California Board. WRD was proud to be one of the awardees among such distinguished agencies. This award was publicly announced and awarded at the ...... continue reading
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