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SAN LEANDRO, Calif., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG), innovator of the only wastewater disinfection process that generates renewable energy, is pleased to announce that Ventura Water has been honored as a leader in the water reuse and desalination industry during the 2013 WateReuse California Annual Conference held in Monterey, California. Ventura Water received the water recycling "Recycled Water Agency of the Year Medium" award for their use of PTG's breakthr...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Reuse, Treatment, Water-quality Monitoring
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
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Reuse
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
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Reuse
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
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Reuse
By Carol Brzozowski In speaking of the need for water recycling, Jim Lauria, vice president of sales and marketing for Amiad USA, says the fact that communities are using drinking water to flush toilets is “just insane.” He continues: “Not every application needs the highest-quality water, so, in many instances in the United States where they are watering lawns with drinking water quality material coming out of the municipal pipes, we can use lower-quality water for irrigation purposes and industrial ap...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Resource-Management, Reuse
By Paul Hull
For more than 70 years the Equus Beds Aquifer has been a major source of water for the City of Wichita, KS, but that does not necessarily mean that the next 70 years will be just fine, too. The wise people of Wichita have initiated the Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Project to ensure that good water is available for at least another 40 years. The aquifer is about 1,400 square miles, with the average withdrawal 157,000 acre-feet. It has been recharged every year (so far) by natural, seasonal precipit...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Drought and shortages, Resource-Management, Reuse
By Dan Rafter
The city of Visalia, CA, will make history in 2013, when its newly upgraded wastewater treatment plant enters service. The plant, which will treat wastewater so that the city of Visalia can reuse it, will rank as the largest membrane bioreactor plant in the state. It will also address a serious problem, one that Visalia is far from alone in facing: Many areas of the United States face water shortages. It’s essential for these regions to rely on new technology to recycle and reuse their water. By doing s...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: conservation, Resource-Management, Reuse
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